ANTI-RAVE PLAN TABLED FOR 4TH TIME

Eagle Mountain Proposal Aims To Limit Gatherings

EAGLE MOUNTAIN -- For the fourth time, Eagle Mountain has backed away from
an ordinance that is meant to curb the rave party wave from blowing into the
west desert city.

The proposed policy, designed to derail all-night dancing within city
limits, also would limit social gatherings to 29 people.

It would require groups of 30 or more people be insured up to $1.5 million
and to show proof that party organizers could accommodate parking and
restroom facilities for large numbers of people.

After a similar ordinance was passed by Provo officials earlier this year,
there was increased interest in Eagle Mountain's proposed ordinance --
scrutiny that the city wasn't ready for.

City officials refuse to call the measure a "rave ordinance."

Council members have repeatedly corrected residents who call it that, saying
the ordinance is not an "anti-rave" ordinance -- but simply a large-group
gathering ordinance similar to others in Utah County cities.

Residents Rick Pierce and Josh Elledge say that after police busted a rave
in the city last year, leaders were worried Eagle Mountain would become the
new hot-spot for rave parties, given the isolated location of the city and
relatively small population.

Many residents argue that the proposed ordinance goes too far and that it
appears to be tailored more toward preventing another Woodstock rather than
controlling a group of 30 or so people.