09-20-2019, 10:13 PM
A couple of things, first, that land in the Mayflower area has been slated for development for 30 years, the type of development that is taking place.
Second, it is private property and selling for millions of dollars per lot and the homes that will be built there are even more costly than the land.
Third, these developments create jobs, good jobs, jobs that pay living wages not only to the workers on the structures and infrastructure but to the many companies that supply those developments with concrete, steel, lumber, granite, carpet, finish woods and landscaping.
Third, this will be the location of an armed forces hotel that will be open to the heros that keep America free and offer up the possibility of losing their lives in doing so and risk leaving their families without them.
Forth, these homeowners will also be using local businesses like shuttle drivers (like myself) caterers, restaurants, maintenance companies, and suppliers for water, sewer and heat while only being occupied a few months a year and paying full property and school taxes.
Last, they are ski homes, not fishing and boating homes. Any boating will be done in rental units that are already being offered by the Jordanelle concessionaires. If there is an increase in boating activity it will be caused by the good wages the workers building those homes use to buy nice boats and trucks, both of which will be taxed and pump up the local economy.
Yes, Jordanelle is changing, developments like Victory Ranch have locked up miles of the Provo to public access, development below and looking down on the dam have increased dramatically in the past few years as have housing starts in Heber and Midway as well as Promentory, Tollgate and Wanship/Coleville?Peoa and what we used to think of as rural villages.
This is no different than the build out of Draper, Herriman, Bountiful, Centerville and all the way from Perry to Santaquin and Toole.
Just the way it is. This is the economy we all need in order to live the good lives people are risking theirs to get to.
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Second, it is private property and selling for millions of dollars per lot and the homes that will be built there are even more costly than the land.
Third, these developments create jobs, good jobs, jobs that pay living wages not only to the workers on the structures and infrastructure but to the many companies that supply those developments with concrete, steel, lumber, granite, carpet, finish woods and landscaping.
Third, this will be the location of an armed forces hotel that will be open to the heros that keep America free and offer up the possibility of losing their lives in doing so and risk leaving their families without them.
Forth, these homeowners will also be using local businesses like shuttle drivers (like myself) caterers, restaurants, maintenance companies, and suppliers for water, sewer and heat while only being occupied a few months a year and paying full property and school taxes.
Last, they are ski homes, not fishing and boating homes. Any boating will be done in rental units that are already being offered by the Jordanelle concessionaires. If there is an increase in boating activity it will be caused by the good wages the workers building those homes use to buy nice boats and trucks, both of which will be taxed and pump up the local economy.
Yes, Jordanelle is changing, developments like Victory Ranch have locked up miles of the Provo to public access, development below and looking down on the dam have increased dramatically in the past few years as have housing starts in Heber and Midway as well as Promentory, Tollgate and Wanship/Coleville?Peoa and what we used to think of as rural villages.
This is no different than the build out of Draper, Herriman, Bountiful, Centerville and all the way from Perry to Santaquin and Toole.
Just the way it is. This is the economy we all need in order to live the good lives people are risking theirs to get to.
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