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Published on: 6/18/2008
Last Visited: 6/19/2008
"As a resident who has lived up there since 1956, I feel pleased that we have been able to keep Albion Basin pretty much as it was when we came there," said Bill Levitt, owner of the Alta Lodge, a retired nine-term mayor of Alta, and one of the founders of Friends of Alta. The approximately 900-member group with an annual budget of ,165,500 got its start in 1981 as Levitt and the town of Alta needed financial help to mount what turned into a successful legal challenge to stop a 400-unit timeshare from being built between Alta and Snowbird.
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Bill Levitt said that, when he ran for mayor in 1970, he hoped Alta would remain as beautiful for his children and grandchildren as it was then. "I talked to my grandkids and kids and they say we got it right," he said.