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Utility Trailer Manufacturing Co. has received dozens of calls in the past few weeks from people offering possible sites for the company's new plant.
Plant Manager Steve Smith says he has received calls from developers, land owners and government officials in Davis County, Morgan County, West Point and Layton offering to find sites for the company that employs 530 people.
CLEARFIELD -- Utility Trailer Manufacturing Co. has received dozens of calls in the past few weeks from people offering possible sites for the company's new plant.
But company officials say they have yet to decide where they will relocate after Clearfield officials denied zoning changes that would have allowed them to expand their operation.
Plant Manager Steve Smith says he has received calls from developers, land owners and government officials in Davis County, Morgan County, West Point and Layton offering to find sites for the company that employs 530 people.
Smith said it is reassuring the 33-year-old semitrailer manufacturer is wanted by so many, but ``it's not like we're in a panic situation.''
Earlier this month, company officials were shocked when the Clearfield City Council voted to deny a rezoning request that would have allowed Utility Trailer to build a $20 million, 450,000-square-foot plant on 55 acres it owns.
City officials said the site, just south of the Freeport Center, would be better suited for homes.
Smith said the decision ``totally baffled'' him, especially after the council amended the city's general plan last July to allow for light manufacturing in that area.
He said he has now been advised by corporate officials in California to put the building project on hold until the situation can be reassessed.
Utility Trailer is the largest manufacturer of refrigerated semitrailers in the world. It has five plants nationwide and one in England.
Copyright Salt Lake Tribune Feb 27, 1998