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Show for those merchants. Mother Urban’s probably allow them to curb-side park the Wooden Dog/Mountain Town Stage that’s on the Marriott Summit Watch on the west side of Main Street,” Cashel This Space for Recycli ing truck drivers are now required to use the zones they're fighting over. Cashel plans to initiate a work session discussion with council members and city management on Sept. 14. “We will says. “We may also change the hours that deliveries can be brought to Main Delivery Woes on ... Or Main St. Barricades Anyone Recycle Utah is hoping the Park City council will agree to increase its rent allowance by $1,000 to allow it more space that could be used fora ~ plastics recycling program. The non-profit center has wanted to begin a plastics recycling program for years. Although the request has never been formalized until now, the matter has been discussed informally for at least five years. Director Insa Riepen made the request formal in mid-August. “I think there’s some . support on the council,” Riepen says. “We need to invite the council down here to see the space we want, and to look at other spaces the city could use for different programs.” : Council members talked about the request a bit during their Aug. 31 meeting, finding out quickly that Street.” As the code is written, the deliv- who's ventured into—or through—Old Town first thing in the — morning knows that Main Street often resembles a bumper car course. Delivery trucks, garbage trucks, restaurant customers and workers vie with each other in a strange variant of “Chicken” to weave their way around the various vehicles—most of which are stopped with engines running and hazard lights flashing. Apparently, the situation became a bit much for members of the city council recently. The council told Police Chief Lloyd Evans to “look into the matter.” — When he did, dispatching an officer to check it out, sparks flew. The officer fol- ery drivers have to be out of the area by noon. Cashel says there won’t be any action on the changes immediately. It’s not known yet whether council members will invite public comment on the issue as well. Jazz Fest Wowing ‘Em _ Lew Fine is a happy man. The founder of Park City’s Fidelity Investments International Jazz Festival says this year’s third annual fest brought the event into the black. “We doubled our scholarships this “We're being e-mailed into a stupor,” thinks there are other spaces available for Bell, spaces that aren’t next to the existing recycling area. She needs the and at Deer Valley Resort. The Peruvians closer space to ensure that all recy- “all want to come here around Dec. 5 and rent a place for $150,” she chuckles, “I’m referring them to our Housing cling efforts in the same area. “Our liaison is [council member] Fred Jones,” she says. “He’s on our board.” Riepen explains Jones supports the idea of increasing the recycling center’s space by one bus bay to house a plastics recycling area. If the city agrees, Riepen says one existing area. 7 7 Should the rent grant/space increase be approved, a second request comes into play—a 0 pg oOo. 2 ™ one-time grant of $14,500 for plastics recycling equipment. Riepen plans to talk to council members Sept. 14 about the need for the new Piet in Park City. Riepen has a plan for her council appearance, too. Like Bell, she will key her comments to 2002 Winter st Olympics needs. “Park City is not a ao = E WI prepared for them, from a recycling Or Green Olympics perspective,” she Says. “If we don’t have this sort of program in place, the international press will tear us eal SN pale Te OU + As surely as Canadian geese congregate and fly south about this time every year, apparently residents of the south. ern hemisphere contact Mountainlands Community Housing Trust about finding a place to live in Park City. Ginger Tolman, Housing Associate for Mountainlands, says it all started about Aug. 1 this year. “We started seeing an increase the first week of August,” - Tolman says. “It slacked off for a minute, then jumped right back up in Tolman laughs. Most of the queries are coming from New Zealand and Australia, according to Tolman, but she - says she’s also getting “a chunk” from Peru. “Most of the Peruvians seem to be working for PCMR [Park City Mountain Resort],” Tolman says. She adds that the Kiwis and Aussies are split about 50-50 between employment at the Canyons he would use the area to store orange cones and bike barricades, but Riepen adding the recycling center would _also need to purchase a garage door Opener to allow access in to the new They’re Busy — Down Under showed jumps first in October, then Bell, now the city’s Director of Olympic Planning, says he too needs the bus bays that Riepen wants for plastic recycling. He told the council © tired, but happy. ret “It does send a positive message to merchants, ” Fine said. September. Apparently the word is out. wants to use it for have to be removed, the restaurant owner—was pressed into service waiting tables that day. He was with Tolman’s boss, Mountainlands Executive Director Phyllis Robinson, -Olympics-related needs. wall would Plaza next to Dom’s restaurant, drawing about 500 people. A weary Dominic Lewinsohn, talking about the event later the same evening, said that even he— than it has in the past. Prior interviews — old bus barn on Woodbine Way. The extra space it hopes to lease is also being eyed by former police chief Bell, who fest, which Fine says “was packed ... but SO was the Cozy, Mulligan’s and Dynamite Dom’s.” Jazz musicians used ‘the middle of the month.” The increase in queries is happening sooner this year there isa potential conflict. The center presently uses a part of the city’s Frank — Ratskellar hosted its own after-hours jazz Resource list and roommate list. The morning Main Street shuffle PHOTO BY BILL CONNELL lowed traffic codes precisely. He issued tickets to drivers of trucks that were double-parked in traffic lanes, or who were not within the few existing freight delivery spaces reserved for them on Main Street. According to Evans, one driver in particular—a United Parcel Service employee—was barely less than furious that he’d been cited, and complained to the city, his management .. you get the idea. Since the initial flap, city transportation director Kent Cashel was told to pore over the traffic enforcement codes and to suggest changes to the freight delivery section that might be more palatable to all concerned. 2 Nothing is final yet, but Cashel explains there simply aren’t enough loading zones to accommodate the trucks, which bring much-needed daily supplies to Park City’s version of a cen-_ tral business district. The problem is, the year,” he says. “We also should double the growth of the previous year.” Fine also noticed that he had a much better listening audience this year than in the first two festivals. “It shows that we had a much more sophisticated audience.” The local real estate agent says that the festival is approaching a “level of recognition” that indicates it could become “one of the greater jazz festivals in the West.” He adds this is all very — good because of potential ripple effects _for the area. “It shows a potential of becoming a benefit for tourism in the Park City/Summit County area,” Fine says. “We have the potential of reaching up to the recognition point of.a | Catalina, Monterey or Hollywood Bowl. jazz festival.” This year, many downtown merchants tuned their entertainment schedules to harmonize with the jazz festival, and Fine says it made a huge difference But people from down under aren’t ‘the only people inquiring about Park City. Tolman says she’s also getting a _ handful of queries from the British Isles —Scotland, England and Ireland. “Our requests will keep building,” she says, adding that the requests have | already tripled. The hard part of the equation is that the number of housing listings coming in to Mountainlands is decreasing. S re looking forward to a busy win” she notes, in a classically understatnt comment. | Detectives Busy— Answering Phones Park City Police Det. Rod Ludlow is recovering from serious injuries he suffered in a weekend traffic accident. After swerving to avoid hitting a deer on his way home Sep. 3, Ludlow, lost control of his vehicle, which rolled and plunged off the side of a road. Ludlow’s colleague, Det. Mary Ford, |