September 22, 2011 I The Lovell Chronicle I 11
PATTI CARPENTER
Crush and Jerrod Fish visited Lovell's Maverik store
Saturday.
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Jerrod Fish and his snake "Crush" got more attention
than they were expecting when they visited the Maverik
station on Saturday, Sept. 17, in Lovell. The two got the
attention of an animal control officer, a Lovell police offi-
cer, store customers and employees.
The bright yellow snake, an albino Burmese Python,
proved to be very tame and appeared to enjoy the atten-
tion, which included a good amount of petting by curious
on-lookers. The two recently moved to town.
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BY DAVID PECK Sept. 9, and the commission voted to limit, a speed bump or a "false dip"
Reacting to a recommendation recommend approval of the plat. in the road. He said there are other
from the Lovell Planning and Zon- "All conditions were met in re- "Ts" in town that have presented "no
ing Commission and believing that gards to the public hearing, and all issues," adding that speeding has not
concerns expressed about the design conditions were met in regards to the been a concern in that neighborhood.
of the project could be mitigated, the subdivision process," Chairman Rick Mayor Morrison also noted other
Lovell Town Council last week voted Banks wrote in a letter to the council. "Ts" in the community but said a few
to accept the final plat for the subdi, "It is the recommendation of the Plan- years ago a house on Main Street was
vision of the old hospital property on ning and Zoning Commission that the hit by a car that veered off course
East 10th Street in Lovell. Town of Lovell accept the final plat as when the street was parallel to the
Dave and Sharon Phelps came to presented.,' house.
the council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. "I just hate to see the opportu- "It can happen anytime," he said.
13, to express concern about the de- nity when planning this (to change"I'm not trying to downplay your con-
sign of the proposed senior housing the plat) go by," Sharon Phelps said. cern, but considering the safeness of
project that would replace the old hos- "Once construction starts it's much the neighborhood and the type of de-
pital on 10th, saying an extension of more expensive.." velopment, the plat as platted right
Robin Road, which would "T" on 10th, "I understand your concern," now, I agree with that."
is dangerous because the road would Mayor Bruce Morrison said. "Plan- Morrison said trees on the prop-
point at their home at 21 E. 10th. ning and Zoning's recommendation erty also help mitigate the danger,
"You are building a risk where was to approve the plat, and they as- noting, "What we have proposed here
none currently exists," Sharon Phelps sured us that they looked at the pros is good, and we're up against a time
said during the public comments and cons and felt it (the road) was not frame. We need to get it taken care of
agenda item earlier in the meeting, a risk," and the hospital torn down.
"We would like you to look carefully Councilman Kevin Jones said his "We have many considerations
at it and reconsider. Currently, there concern about the proposed redesign before we accept the property, but in
is no risk, but with this design the city was that the development would in-the long run this will make it a real
assumes responsibility for the risk. I elude a cul-de-sac, which he said is a nice neighborhood. The way it's plat-
feel strongly about our house being safety issue for residents needing to ted now, I'm OK with that."
placed in risk where none currently escape a fire. And he said it would be The council voted 4-0, with Scott
exists." expensive to re-engineer the subdivi- Allred absent, to accept the plat as
The Planning and Zoning Com- sion. recommended by the planning and
mission held a public hearing on the Phelps said the design seems to zoning commission.
plat on Aug. 1 and asked about modi- "run counter" to the community's de- Also last Tuesday, the council vot-
fying the plat at that time, voting to sire to be a safe place, noting that the ed to approve a change order for Spie-
ask the council to consider other op- road would point directly at her bed- gel & Son in the amount of $1,458.51
tions, but at the Aug. 9 council meet- room. Councilman Bruce Wolsey saidas the final reconciliation on the paint-
ing, the town council expressed con- moving the road east or west woulding project for the 300,000-gallon wa-
cern about additional engineering result in angles that would make it ter tank. The change order brings the
fees and a cul-de-sac recommendation difficult for drivers to look for oncom- final contract price to $89,718.85. A
in the name of fire safety and asked ing traffic, final pay request for $11,846.04 was
the commission to make a recommen- Chief of Police Nick Lewis said also submitted with the bills for pay-
dation based on the design at hand. there are options for slowing traffic, ment. The council voted to approve
A second meeting was held on including a stop sign, a lower speed the change order.
BY DAVID PECK
Regulating door-to-door salesmen
isn't as easy as it might seem, mem-
bers of the Lovell Town Council found
out at their regular September meet-
ing last Tuesday.
Town Attorney Sandra Kitchen
told the council that she is preparing
a draft ordinance to regulate door-to-
door selling as requested by Chief of
Police Nick Lewis. She said the so-
called "Green River Ordinance" ban-
ning door-to-door sales worked well
late interstate commerce. "You can
regulate peddlers - require a license,
a fee and a background check."
But Kitchen cautioned that if the
town decides to regulate peddlers, it
must regulate all peddlers, including
Girl Scouts, school organizations and
others...The Girls Scouts would have
to register."
She added that people have the
right to post a sign on their door re-
questing no salesmen and to ask any
salesman to leave their property.
around wyoming until it was chal .... Chief Lewis said one of his prima-
lenged in courtyThe law is now unen- ry concerns about door-to-door sales-
forceable, she said. men is that they expose citizens to,
Kitchen said there are three pri- perhaps, the 1 percent of salesmen
mary classes of door-to-door sales- who want to take advantage of citi-
men: transient merchants, solicitors zens. He said he even knows of sex-
and peddlers. It is far easier to regu- ual assault cases in other areas from
late a peddler - who brings his own a salesman. Occasionally a salesman
wares to be sold - than it is a solicitor, will ask to use the restroom and will
who takes orders for items to be sent go through the medicine cabinet look-
later, she said. ing for pharmaceuticals.
"States and municipalities cannot Lewis said he would like to meet
regulate solicitors," Kitchen said, be- with local groups and the schools to
cause local government cannot regu- ask their opinion about regulating
peddlers and whether regulations
would be too burdensome.
"We need to meet with folks and
see if we can come to an agreement,"
he said, "and see whether they can
live with it or whether it would be too
burdensome."
The chief said he has had numer-
ous complaints about recent salesmen
who not only went door-to-door selIing
security systems but also said they
had the backing of the police depart-
ment, which was a fabrication.
'q~otally false statements were
made about the systems being ap-
proved by the Lovell Police Dept.,"
Lewis said. "I don't want to see young
people exposed to solicitors. I like the
idea of knowing who they are so we
can run checks.
"My suggestion is that we con-
tact the people who would be affect-
ed, like the Girl Scouts, get their input
and make a decision. It's a great ordi-
nance (Kitchen's draft ordinance). It's
definitely a framework we can use to
protect our citizens."
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