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Show See a photo you like in The Park Record? C-1 B-1 Photos taken by The Park Record are available for purchase in a wide variety of sizes and printing options at parkrecordphoto.smugmug.com SKIM THE SURFACE OF SPRING AT PCMR GRÜV WATER POLO TEAMS MAKE SPLASH IN STATE EDUCATION, A-11 PARK CITY SPECIAL EDUCATION DIRECTOR SEES PROGRESS The Love a photo? Order a reprint of Park Record photographs that appear in our print editions or website at: parkrecordphoto.smugmug.com COLUMNS, A-20 AMY ROBERTS NEEDS A DRINK AFTER LEGISLATIVE SESSION Park Record. PARK CITY , UTAH | WWW.PARKRECORD.COM Wed/Thurs/Fri, March 22-24, 2017 Serving Summit County since 1880 Program Pull for spring details a cop’s day Vol. 137 | No. 13 50¢ Workers forced out of cramped living quarters Fire District orders them to leave former school by April 2 Inside view of police work offered By ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record By JAY HAMBURGER ment. City Hall says prices are projected to start at $195,000 and climb to $285,000. The price will depend on the square footage of the house and a buyer’s income. The project entails eight houses. Two of the units will be one-bedrooms of 750 square feet, five will be two-bedrooms of 1,120 square feet and one will be a three-bedroom of 1,350 square feet. The project is part of City Hall’s aggressive housing program and will be the first housing built by the municipal government itself since the Snow Creek Cottages were completed in 2010. Officials see the project on the 1400 block of Park Avenue as one of several possible municipal housing developments along the lower Nearly 30 seasonal workers living at the former Colby School property along the east side of State Road 224 are being forced to find somewhere else to live after the Park City Fire District issued a notice to vacate to the property owners earlier this month. According to Fire District Chief Paul Hewitt, a citizen complaint to the fire district on March 10 sparked an investigation that involved the Summit County Planning and Building Department. Hewitt said it was discovered that nearly 30 people were living in the former Colby School building. They have until April 2 to vacate. Hewitt said the fire district conducted a full fire inspection and found that the property owners had only provided the “minimum standard” to meet fire regulations. It is unclear what, if any, penalties the property owners could face for violating fire regulations. “They just need to go to planning and building to get the proper permits,” Hewitt said. “We are going back on April 3 to verify that all occupants have vacated the residence. We didn’t just kick them out right away because we would have been kicking people out on the street. All we are worried about is life and safety.” In 2014, the former Colby School/Snowed Inn property was acquired by Emma Worsley and Julie McBroom operating as Hoffvest LLC. The native Australians have lived in Park City for more than five years and have plans to develop the site as a wellness center. Summit County originally approved the Snowed Inn and related uses as a Class II development in August of 1985. Multiple attempts by The Park Record to reach the owners were unsuccessful. A representative of the project said McBroom and Worsley are currently out of the country. The 1998 Development Code allowed for a change of use in the existing building from a hotel to a school and it operated as the Colby School until 2008. Earlier this year, a conditional-use permit application was submitted to the county requesting approval for a 39room hotel, three cabin-style rooms, a 5,000-square-foot restaurant, plus yoga and fitness studios. The project would include the renovation of the existing building, in addition to the construction of an attached multi-use building, demolition of the small accessory buildings on the site and expansion of the existing parking area to accommodate 130 spaces. The project has received significant backlash from the residents in the three surrounding neighborhoods, who claim the project violates county code regarding commercial projects in the Snyderville Basin. As of Tuesday, an online petition opposing the proposal had collected 93 signatures. Please see Prices, A-2 Please see Workers, A-2 The Park Record The Park City Police Department wants to show the realities of an officer’s job are different than what someone sees on a TV show about cops. The Police Department is preparing for the 2017 Citizen Academy, an annual program that provides participants an inside look at police work. The Citizen Academy covers numerous topics related to the Police Department by tapping officers from within the department and outside agencies to describe their duties. “It gives the public and the citizens of the community a better understanding of what we do as law enforcement officers,” said Terry Knechtel, a Park City officer and the program coordinator who oversees the Citizen Academy. The Citizen Academy, entering its ninth year, starts on May 3 and ends on July 5. It involves weekly sessions from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Park Avenue police station. The sessions each cover different topics, including investigating crime scenes, conducting traffic stops and the role of the department’s dispatchers. Knechtel said the Citizen Academy will address the reasoning behind traffic stops, saying that an officer may stop a driver if the vehicle headlights are off when they should be on or when a vehicle matches the description of one driven by a crime suspect. Some of the other topics include conducting arrests and the related tasks of searches and seizures. Instructors come from the Police Department or other agencies. He said a demonstration involving a police dog, a tour of the Summit County Jail, a day at a gun range to highlight police weaponry and a description of the local SWAT team are also planned. “This will clear up any misconceptions they see on TV or in the movies,” Knechtel said. The program accepts up to 15 people per year. Knechtel said past classes have included ski instructors, attorneys, doctors, retirees and college students. One person who participated later became a police dispatcher elsewhere in Utah, he said. There is no cost to participants. Someone must be at least 18 years old, a U.S. citizen and live or work in Park City or Summit County to be eligible. For more information, contact Knechtel at 615-5500. More information and applications are available on the City Hall website, www.parkcity. org. Select ‘Police Department Citizen Academy’ in the Events section on the front page. The direct link is: http:// www.parkcity.org/departments/police/ citizen-police-academy. 3 sections • 46 pages Classifieds ........................... C-12 Columns .............................. A-20 Crossword ........................... C-4 Editorial............................... A-21 Education ............................ A-11 Events Calendar .................. C-6 Legals .................................. C-15 Letters to the Editor ............ A-21 Movies................................. C-4 Restaurant Guide................. A-19 Scene .................................. C-1 Scoreboard ......................... B-5 Sports .................................. B-1 Weather ............................... B-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Susan McCoy smiles as her 7-year-old daughter, Park McCoy, giggles while dragging her snow tube at the tubing track last week at Gorgoza Park. The two were accompanied by Susan’s husband, Jeff, and Park’s 10-year-old sister, Haynes. The family was visiting from Austin, Texas. Old Town, at under $300K Park City outlines prices for municipal housing project By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record City Hall anticipates selling the houses it is building in Old Town for less than $300,000, officials said in a newly published document, figures that are well below the prices in the surrounding neighborhood. The municipal government released a onepage document outlining the project, which is under development at 1450 Park Ave. and 1460 Park Ave. The prices are included in the docu- From here to there, for free Check for trails Park City steers toward an on-demand ride service By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record There may be another free ride in Park City in addition to the buses. City Hall is considering offering a transit service that would take someone from point to point for free. The municipal government has published a document known as a request for proposals outlining the service. It would complement the free bus system, which shuttles people from one bus stop to another rather than from point to point like the transit service described by City Hall. Proposals are due Friday. The documentation indicates officials want to start the service in the summer for a one-year period with the option to extend for three years. It would be an on-demand service that City Hall sees as using cars that run on electricity or cars that are hybrids or those with zero or low emissions. Electric cars are friendlier to the environment than those that run on gasoline. Cutting emissions is a key goal of City Hall, and em- ploying a service with cars running on electricity would be seen as advancing the efforts. The municipal bus fleet also runs on cleaner-burning energies. The documentation, posted on the City Hall website, describes a base bid that involves a service along Main Street and surrounding Old Town. Trips must start in Old Town under the base service. There are four other bid options fanning out from Old Town to other Park City neighborhoods and into the Snyderville Basin. City Hall wants the service to run every day from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. with a starting time of 7:30 a.m. during the ski season. Drivers would be dispatched through an app system. Alfred Knotts, the transportation planning manager at City Hall, said the service could be a transit option into neighborhoods where there are not enough passengers for a full-size bus carrying approximately 60 people. He said a service would provide an alternative to someone driving their own vehicle. The documentation, meanwhile, indicates City Hall and the County Courthouse see transportation using electric cars as reducing traffic in the Old Town core. “This program is being tested as part of a larger effort to reduce traffic, alleviate parking Please see Free rides, A-2 VISITOR GUIDE Pay a visit to Fry Street for chamber music COURTESY OF VAIL RESORTS Representatives from Vail Resorts and Patagonia last week presented a $7,000 check to Mountain Trails Foundation Executive Director Charlie Sturgis. The money was raised through Vail’s EpicPromise Foundation and a percentage of opening-day sales at the new Patagonia store on Main Street. From left: Ted Eberle, who is the Vail Resorts retail area manager, Gary Lisbon, who is the Vail Resorts retail director of regional operations, Sturgis, Andrew Wellman, who is the assistant manager at the store, and store manager Hannah Sakalla. NOVA Chamber Music Series will present the Fry Street Quarter at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, at the Julie Nester Gallery, 1280 Iron Horse Drive. Utah’s Fry Street Quartet is one of the most exciting and dynamic string quartets on the international classical music scene. For information, visit www.novaslc.org/ products/2016-17-nova-gallery-series-1. |