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,'...... '-. , , ..~ "~c....-...-..,,~~,"_...__ ~ityLINK . :10<"" 25'; }ql", ~ In an effort to assure that the design of I new park is embraced by those living tear it, the City of Westminster has nailed a survey to residents in the ;kyline Vista neighborhood in southeast Nestminster The survey asks neighborhood :esidents to choose between two options I Jroposed [or the new Skyline Vista Park, ",hich will be located west of Zuni Street between 72nd and 74th Avenues, next to Skyline Vista Elementary SchooL Opposition to the Skyline Park master plan, which had been developed and approved at a series of public meetings, surfaced at the May 20 City Council meeting when resident Don Schaeffer told Council that the design of the park did not meet the needs of the residents. Schaeffer and representatives from the Perl Mack Little League d~veloped a second park master plan alternative that separates the proposed baseball fields from other uses in the nark The City's , . plan integrated the ban fields with the other park uses. Council then directed staff to ask residents which of the two plans they preferred at the neighborhood's June 5 Community Oriented Governance meeting. When a vote taken at that meeting showed that residents were evenly split on the issue, the City decided to conduct a survey in which residents can choose the option they prefer. The surveys have been mailed and are due back to the City by June 29, after which they wilt be tabulated and the results presented to City Council for further consideration. Vlter conservation. plan ready fur review . WestIDinster has published a water conselVation plan and copies are. available lor interested citizens through the Department of Public Works .and Utilities. 430.2400 eX!. 2176. or at any Weslminster Public library. \ Spotligh t v i three-dimensional computer generated ! images. The company's primary clients : are hi the medical and electronics industries. Protogeniccurrently employs 24 people with an average salary of $39,000, and for the past five years has grown at a rate of 50 percent per year. Proto genic will bring a sister company with it called CAD PotentiaL It currently . employs 11 people with an average . salary of $51,000. . The City projects,that over the next five years, the two companies win create approximately 122 additional jobs. Anticipated move-in is planned for late fall of this year. . WestminsterPIBIB study underway ~~. ~~; ;urvey seeks input Firm to bring high- JO Skyline'Vista Park tech jobs to City O~ Monday K[ W H! I ~[ ! ! everung, CIty Council approved Qn first reading an . assistance package to Protogenic Inc.. a high-tech firm that is expected to creaie more than iDO jobs in Westminster in the next five years. Protogenic is currently located in Boulder and is planning to build a $2.6 million, 35,000 sq.ft. building at 121st Avenue and Osage Street in the Park Centre Corporate Park. The site is located northeast ofNorwest Bank Protogenic manufactures three- dimensional plastic prototypes from The City is continuing in its efforts to examine redevelopment and ECONfiMIC -INDlEATOHS -:l 1.7% i 'H ' ! r ousma I " Up I Starts 9% II (single-farrily horms) . 416 I 360 I r-- I Consiruciion Value Down 7"10 (in mmions) 72.3 hotal Businesses 1,408 1,432 1995 1996 Jan. - May 1995 1996 1996 1995 Jan. - May May