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Fanning Baumgardner read a report prepared by the Planning Commission which said the county had collected $12,000 in taxes from the ski area between 1964 and 1975 and had spent $58,000 in maintenance, mainly for roads, to serve the ski area. That was when the ski area was open less than half a year. The taxes would stay the same and the expenditures would go up if a recreation development were open all year long at the ski area, the planning commission report suggested.
Weil argued that many businesses probably get more “tax benefit” out of roads than they put into them.
George Davis though the ski area development would bring “severe encumbrances without a cor-' responding benefit” to the public. H. L. Manwaring asked to hear from “the public officials.”
PETER KRAMER, Mayor of Washington, said he was worried about traffic congestion in the town of Washington which would be generated by the ski area development. He was concerned about the problems which would occur when a car pulling a trailer tried to negotiate the corner at the Cash Store. Kramer said he was also worried about the additional road maintenance costs and the burden
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