Former coach honored for a lifetime of achievements See B1 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S THURSDAY April 11, 2019 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 125 No. 90 $1.00 Tooele approves preliminary plan for 700 South development Location is ignition site of 2016 wildfire that destroyed 11 homes and damaged 17 STEVE HOWE The property is already STAFF WRITER zoned for single-family resi- The preliminary plan for a dential and all of the lots in housing development in the the subdivision meet or exceed vacant field that was the igni- the minimum lot development tion site for a destructive wild- standards for lot size, frontage fire in 2016 was recommended and width, according to the for approval by the Tooele city’s staff report. Surrounding City Planning Commission on properties are either zoned Wednesday evening. for single-family residential or The proposed develop- built as single-family detached ment, at approximately 760 W. properties. 700 South, would include 54 There are three connections single-family lots on 14 acres to the subdivision, including of property. The residential lots to 700 South, 580 South and FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO range in size from .16 acres to American Way, with interior An early March storm brings a rainbow to the skies above Stansbury. March’s weather waffled between winter and spring bringing snow, rain, .32 acres, though the largest streets of 760 West, 580 South sun and above-normal precipitation to the Tooele area. lot abuts the development and and 680 South. fronts onto Coleman Street. A The preliminary plan .38-acre storm water detention includes a flag lot in the upper basin is located at the north- ® March moisture brings end west corner of the property. SEE DEVELOPMENT PAGE A7 to county’s drought status TIM GILLIE EDITOR The wetter water year for Tooele City OKs permit for County continued in March, causing the U.S. Drought Monitor to lift its drought designation from nearly all of Tooele County. chemical transload Only 3.2% of the county remained in a drought condition as of April 2, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. at industrial depot The area of Tooele County remaining in drought is so small it doesn’t show up on the Drought Monitor’s map. According to STEVE HOWE according to Tooele City zon- the monitor’s statistical table, nobody lives STAFF WRITER ing administrator Andrew in the area. The Tooele City Planning Aagard. The western part of Tooele County, Commission approved a con- “Employees will arrive at the comprising 63% of the county, is desig- ditional use permit that allows site, transfer the material and nated as no drought. The eastern part an explosive manufactur- return to the main office or of Tooele County, consisting of 33.8% of ing and storage company to staging area,” Aagard said. transfer chemical product at Davey Bickford USA previ- SEE MARCH PAGE A7 ® the Peterson Industrial Depot ously applied for a similar during its meeting Wednesday conditional use permit at a dif- night. ferent property on Kira Drive, The permit would affect which was also approved by 4 acres of property east of the planning commission at its South Feldspar Road, which Feb. 13 meeting. is already zoned for industrial One of the chemicals trans- use. The company requesting ferred at the site would be the permit, Davey Bickford ammonium nitrate prill, which USA, will not produce or is used in fertilizer or explo- manufacture chemicals on site, sives, according to the fed- but will transfer them between eral Environmental Protection train cars and tractor-trailers, Agency. A safety data sheet and store them for periods of about ammonium nitrate prill up to 24 hours. was included in the materials There will be no buildings provided by Davey Bickford. on site, just railroad spurs FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTOS and transloading equipment, SEE PERMIT PAGE A4 ® Flowers peek out of the snow in Tooele City. The storm blanketed them with a couple of inches of snow while the mountains received more. Grantsville General Plan public meeting set for Monday More public comment will be received on draft plan with a 20-minute presenta- Ben Levenger, president of any comments or suggestions to have everything wrapped up tion by consultant Downtown Downtown Redevelopment received from Monday’s meet- by the end of May.” MARK WATSON “We are revamping the gen- Redevelopment Services of Services. ing into a final General Plan. The website grantsvilleplan. CORRESPONDENT eral plan, which hasn’t been Salt Lake City at 6:45 p.m. “We have come up with a “Then we will help the City org includes a draft General Grantsville residents are done since 2001,” said City Meeting tables will be set up draft of a General Plan from with the adoption process,” Plan and also a survey for invited to attend a meeting Councilwoman Jewel Allen. and comments received until comments we received at that Levenger said. “The planning residents to take to help in the Monday night to review and The meeting is set for 6:30- 8 p.m. meeting and from surveys commission will first review process. comment on the City’s devel- 8 p.m. Monday in Grantsville A similar meeting was held online,” Levenger said. it and make recommendation Allen said the City received oping General Plan, a City High School’s commons area. in January with about 350 He said it will take about and then the City Council will official says. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. people in attendance, said three weeks to incorporate vote to adopt it. We’re shooting SEE PLAN PAGE A4 ® INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B5 CLASSIFIEDS B9 4th Annual Rep. Stewart Gillie: Style HOMETOWN B1 Community town hall at changes 100% OBITUARIES A8 Performance Tooele City Hall of the time SPORTS A10 of Handel’s See A2 See A6 Messiah See A4 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY April 11, 2019 Stewart to hold town hall meeting at Tooele City Hall on Saturday TIM GILLIE about Judgment Fund settle- Trump presidential campaign, EDITOR ments. and border security issues. Rep. Chris Stewart will be in Other March press releases In an interview with CNN on Tooele City on Saturday. from Stewart’s office explained Tuesday, Stewart said he was The Republican con- that the congressman voted disappointed when he heard gressman from Utah’s 2nd against the “for the People Attorney General William Barr Congressional District will Act of 2019,” in part because plans to release the Mueller hold a town hall meeting at it used federal tax dollars to report with redactions. Tooele City Hall from 3 p.m. to fund elections and granted Stewart said the reason for 4 p.m. federal jurisdiction to elec- his disappointment was not According to Stewart’s tions. Another release high- because he believes there will Facebook announcement of the lighted Stewart’s joining be great secrets in the redacted town hall meeting, he will “dis- with Republican members of portions of the report. cuss issues he’s working on in the House Permanent Select Some parts of the report Congress on your behalf.” Committee on Intelligence contain information on the TTB FILE PHOTO March press releases from to call for the resignation of grand jury, sources and meth- Congressman Chris Stewart answered questions during a town hall meeting in Tooele in September 2013. Stewart’s office highlighted the committee’s chairman, ods, and ongoing legal cases Stewart will hold a town hall meeting Saturday at Tooele City Hall from 3–4 p.m. the passing of three bills Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff. that legally cannot or be made sponsored by Stewart: to Another press release from public, according to Stewart. regardless, because they want about the family separation in 2012. Stewart grew up on a require an investigation for a Stewart’s office discussed a “The reason I didn’t want the court battle and the politi- policy at the border with dairy farm in Cache Valley. He response to the Putin regime’s report on the National Suicide to see any redactions is I knew cal battle,” Stewart said. “They Mexico, Stewart told CNN that is a former U.S. Air Force pilot, attempt to influence elec- Hotline Improvement Act of some conspiracy theorist, or want to keep this narrative “I don’t think there is a chance an author, and was the CEO of tions worldwide, to allow 2018, sponsored by Stewart. others that are grasping at alive. They don’t want to say in the world that the president a small business with consult- the State and Institutional As a member of the straws, would point to the what the Attorney General has would go back to that.” ing expertise in energy and Trust Lands Administration House Appropriations and redactions and say, ‘See the said and what Mr. Mueller con- “We’ve got an enormous the environment before being to acquire certain Bureau of Intelligence committees, evidence is in there,’” he said. cluded, they don’t want to say challenge on our border,” elected to Congress. Land Management land that Stewart has been interviewed Stewart referred to plans there was no conspiracy. Let’s Stewart said. “It truly is a crisis The town hall meeting will would increase funding for on national media recently for the House to subpoena the be honest with the American but that policy isn’t going to be held Saturday from 3-4 p.m. public education in Utah, and about both the Mueller report unredacted report as “political people, admit that, and move fix it.” at Tooele City Hall, 90 N.