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Show A-24 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, May 25-28, 2019 Sunday in the Park TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM By Teri Orr It was a dark and stormy night... Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, May 28, 2019 Location: Sheldon Richins Building – Auditorium, 1885 West Ute Boulevard, Park City, UT 84098 AGENDA Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 4:30 p.m. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 2. ***THIS PUBLIC HEARING WILL NOT BE HEARD AND HAS BEEN MOVED TO JUNE 11, 2019*** Public hearing and possible action regarding the proposed Weight Subdivision Plat Amendment; 2306 W. Red Pine Road, Parcel Weight-1, Canyons Village; Marty Breen, applicant. – Tiffanie Northrup-Robinson, Senior Planner 3. Discussion and possible recommendation for Hotel Ascent Final Site Plan and Condominium Plat; 4080 North Cooper Lane; on Parcel FRSTW-F2-B-1AM at Canyons Village; Ginger Romriell, applicant.– Tiffanie Northrup-Robinson, Senior Planner 4. Public hearing and possible action regarding Utah Olympic Park Ski Run and Ski Lift Phase 1 Conditional Use Permit to improve portions of the Utah Olympic Park hillside, adjacent to the Olympic jumps into a ski run and ski lift to serve the run. These improvements are for Phase 1 only which include improvements of the ski run between the bobsled track and the Olympic Jumps and a 1,247-foot-long ski lift which includes 7 towers (including terminals); 3419 Olympic Parkway; Parcel PP-63-A-X; Jamie Kimball, applicant.– Amir Caus, AICP, County Planner DRC Updates Commission Comments Director Items Adjourn A majority of Snyderville Basin Planning Commission members may meet socially after the meeting. If so, the location will be announced by the Chair or Vice-Chair. County business will not be conducted. To view staff reports available after Friday, May 24, 2019 please visit: www.summitcounty.org Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Vicki Geary, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 336-3123. Continued from A-23 Mountain Town that they catch. “We are a business that provides memories of moments for people. Killing a fish is not the memory that gets those guests to come back to us.” The river originates in Yellowstone National Park at the confluence of three small creeks. Inside the park the cutthroat thrive. They used to thrive downstream on the river, after it has passed through Jackson Hole and into Idaho. But in the last 20 years rainbows have been taking over. Paul Bruun, a fishing columnist in the News&Guide, said cutthroats tend to indiscriminately go for dry flies off the river’s surface, making it the “Yankee Stadium of fishing.” The News&Guide’s Mike Koshmrl explains that anglers revere rainbow trout because they’re hard-charging and high-flying. They’re also adaptable, now found in every U.S. state outside of Florida. As recently as the 1980s, they were being stocked into the South Fork of the Snake in Idaho by the same wildlife agencies who are now trying to remove them. Cutthroat were proposed for protected status under the Endangered Species Act in the early 2000s. The subspecies endemic to the Northern Rockies exists today in only about a third of its historic five-state range. How do we know that even more rich will people arrive? ASPEN, Colo. – In Aspen, it’s easy to assume that the future will resemble the past because, at least in the modern resort era, it always has. That logic has been interrupted only briefly after the 2001 terrorism attacks and then again, more deeply during the economic recession of 2008-2009. Otherwise, prices have continued to rise as yet more people arrive, mostly by airplane. But what about the future? The Aspen Daily News’ Andre Salvail reports that late into a meeting about future growth and expansion of the Aspen Pitkin County Airport somebody asked exactly that question. Had there been no analysis of that underlying assumption? Gabe Preston, an economic analyst with RPI Consulting, attempted a response. While costs are rising higher and higher, Aspen-area tourism continues to grow, albeit at a slower, more measured pace than most people realize, he suggested. “Maybe there is some point where it’s so ridiculously expensive that demand stops,” Preston said, before adding, “I’m not sure there is a threshold point.” The meeting was provoked by a proposal to expand and reconfigure the airport runways, to be able to accommodate a new generation of jets replacing the aging fleet of CRJ-700. Local residents took an average of one commercial airline trip last year, while visitors to the valley took 2.4 trips, according to Linda Perry, an air industry economic specialist with consulting firm LeighFischer. During March, up to 27 planes land and embark from the airport daily, almost a third to Denver but the others to Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and other cities. Pitkin County gained nearly 10,000 jobs in the 21st century, peaking in 2008 at nearly 22,000 jobs before declining by about 1,000 jobs. The population grew 1.8 percent between 2004 and 2013. As of two years ago the year-round population was estimated at 17,747. During July, the busiest if not necessarily the most economically lucrative month, the population swells to 53,062. Direct air service links Telluride and Denver TELLURIDE, Colo. – It’s a minimum 6-hour trip from Telluride to Denver if you drive, but still close to 90 minutes of driving if flying from Montrose to Denver. Now there’s another option for local residents, flights on 30seat Dornier 328 jets between Telluride and Denver. The jets land and take off from the airport on the mesa just outside the town. At 9,018 feet, it’s the highest commercial airport in North America. One-way fares run $350 to $200. Can water efficiency avoid the big costs of new infrastructure WHISTLER, B.C. – Decision time in Whistler is approaching, with the critical question being whether to build new water infrastructure. The community taps both surface water sources and a field of 13 wells for the domestic water supply. To meet future needs, it could augment those sources with new supplies along with the expanded or new treatment facilities needed to make the water potable. Doing so would cost about $20 million. Or, can the community continue to scale back its needs, more efficiently using the water already available? Pique Newsmagazine reports that water officials favor this latter approach, especially given that Whistler is approaching build-out. Squaw Valley snow now 700-plus inches for season TRUCKEE, Calif. – It was another snowy weekend in the Sierra Nevada. Total snowfall for this season at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows has pushed above 700 inches, making it the third most on record. But it will have to be a very, very snowy late May for the resort to get above the record of 810 inches that fell during the 2010-11 season, the record. Squaw will remain open seven days a week until Memorial Day, when it will switch to three-day weekends through the Fourth of July. In Colorado, Aspen has enough snow to reopen for Memorial Day. Arapahoe Basin goes until June 9. Big winter is over, but the digging out still continues ASPEN, Colo. – Much of the “roar” in the Roaring Fork River has been diminished, as the Aspen Times’ Scott Condon observed some years ago, because of transmountain diversions from the river’s headwaters near Independence Pass. This year, there was much roaring of avalanches. Those avalanches and the uncommonly deep snowfall have made life more challenging for caretakers at Grizzly Reservoir, where water is stored for diversion under the Continental Divide. The primary customers for the diverted waters are Colorado Springs and Pueblo, located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains 200 miles away. The Aspen Times reports that the year-round caretakers at Grizzly Reservoir were snowbound for 16 days this past winter. Their cabin at the reservoir is located 6 miles up a gravel road from Highway 82. The highway during winter months is closed 6 miles below, a few miles outside of Aspen. To buy groceries, they commonly drive through the 3.8mile tunnel under the Continental Divide during winter, emerging on a plowed Highway 82. In March, though, the highway that then goes to Leadville and Buena Vista was blocked by four avalanches, the caretaker, Glenn Schryver told the Times in an e-mail interview. That left them for 16 days unable to leave except for snowmobiling or skiing. Now that spring has arrived, more or less, he has plowed the road out to Highway 82, but that took 13 days, compared to the 3 or 4 days that has been more common in the last decade. Opening of Highway 82 across 11,995-foot Independence Pass — under which the tunnel passes, more or less – has similarly been delayed. The Aspen Daily News reports the road for the last decade has been opened by the Thursday before Memorial Day. But Colorado Department of Transportation officials are reluctant to say when they think the highway will open this year. Crews have encountered many avalanches that have left snow festooned with the trunks of pine and aspen trees. This week, helicopters were to be dispatched to drop 40 to 60 explosive charges on cornices overhanging the highway, to preemptively trigger any avalanches that might happen in the next few weeks on their own. Owner of Fairmont hotels sells 50 percent of stake BANFF, Alberta –The Toronto-based real estate company that owns four Fairmont hotels in resort areas of Canada has sold a 50 percent stake in them. The Rocky Mountain Outlook says the hotels at Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper, and Whistler collectively have 2,200 rooms. The company, Oxford Properties Group, invested $300 million in the properties after buying them in 2006. The snhlain was hitting the windows with such force it woke me up. Snow. Hail. Rain ... at the end of May. It was maybe 4 a.m. If you have never watched Rives’ two TED talks — about the mystery of 4 a.m. and the museum of 4 a.m. — do yourself a fun, rabbit-hole-style favor. Stop reading this right now — and go watch. I’ll wait... Right? You’re welcome. So, weird stuff has happened at 4 a.m. since the beginning of time or at least since the beginning of popular culture. When you wake up at that hour nothing normal happens. You are suspended between time and space and rational thought. And eventual — but still remote — daylight. Things get weird. So I woke up and was aware, the noises coming from downstairs in the front of my house were so much louder than the frozen water pelting at the windows upstairs. It sounded like a monster was throwing my wicker porch chair against the front door and the windows. It was hitting the wooden porch with force. It demanded investigation. There are few things I hate as much as getting up in the middle of the night. I love my little nest of blankets and pillows and I like sleeping with the house pretty cool. So peeling that off and crawling out of the warmth to check out the nocturnal noises made me cranky. Still, I live alone. It wasn’t like I could say — “hey Big Guy — you go check out the noise in the night.” Nope, I had to get up and out and down the stairs. I couldn’t really see anything in the ambient light. But this noise was increasing. Maybe there was someone trying to get in. Maybe some bear had found my front porch. I was just going to flip the switch and meet the devil — it was clearly more than the elements responsible. So I did — hit the light and saw the masked intruder knocking over the chair and then quickly turning with that long-pointed nose looking right in the window back at me. I squealed and froze and then laughed. The raccoon was not fazed in the least. He kept pushing the wicker porch chair closer to the side of the front door so he could climb the door frame and take his long nails and swipe at the bird feeder to release the seeds so he could eat them. There were choices and options and plans I could have devised. I turned off the light and left the elements to pound the windows and roof and left my intruder to do his damnedest to attack the bird feeder and release the goods. I learned a very long time ago in my tiny part of the world — feeding the birds is about so much more than the birds. It was, after all, around 4 a.m. The mind wanders and goes to corners dark and curious and confused. It tries to make connections never meant to be made.” So I returned to my cozy bed nest and tried to go back to sleep. And sleep would not come. It was, after all, around 4 a.m. The mind wanders and goes to corners dark and curious and confused. It tries to make connections never meant to be made. It tries to solve riddles and puzzles of the day before, maybe the decade before. The turning, the tossing, the second guessing, decisions made and yet to be made. The broken conversations, song lyrics, dialogue from a movie. The news reports on television, radio, newspapers, online. Is British Prime Minister Theresa May resigning in May ... or June ... or not at all. Not a merry month of May for her. And so many folks chose to marry in May or June. I know I did. Once in May and once in June. If I had married in the winter, would I have fared better? Most fairs take place in August. County and state ones — with exhibit halls showing off homegrown, homemade goods. Like the giant squash or the patchwork quilt. I could plant squash now but not tomatoes yet. I have a quilt my great grandmother made with giant tomato-colored flowers appliquéd on top. It was a strange color to have used and I tried to figure out if she had put it together in The Depression and used whatever scraps were available to her then. And is depression an overused word? Prices of stocks were no longer valued so highly in the late Twenties and the stock market crashed and depressed the value and people lost their livelihoods and became depressed. Soon we will have to think of new ways to talk about a date like that because the 2020s will be upon us and saying the Twenties won’t necessarily mean the 1920s anymore. 4 a.m. — sigh — and really why do we say a.m.? Ante meridiem is Latin for Before Midday hence the abbreviation and p.m. or post meridiem is also Latin for After Midday. Why are still using Latin as the baseline for so many things ... but not walruses and kings ... Oh how I love that silly poem by Lewis Carroll where the Walrus and the Carpenter walk and talk... The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings. And where did that notion come from that maybe pigs could fly — like Pegasus in the sky? Don’t we all want wings? What was the name of the gospel hymn taught to me in public elementary school with the line ... “when your feet get tired — put on your wings”? Some nights sleep will not come. And the best you can do is try to fly outside your body and listen and watch the synapses try to connect between the naps-es and wait for it to be another curiouser and curiouser Sunday in the Park... Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. BLM: 5 billion tons more of emissions not a big deal Feds lift Obama ban on coal sales amid opposition MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration’s decision to lift a moratorium on coal sales from public lands could hasten the release of more than 5 billion tons of greenhouse gases, but officials concluded Wednesday it would make little difference in overall U.S. climate emissions. That conclusion from the Bureau of Land Management comes after a judge ruled last month the administration had failed to consider the environmental effects of resuming coal sales from public lands. Sales were largely halted in 2016 under President Barack Obama over worries about climate change. But the moratorium was rescinded by then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke soon after President Donald Trump took office, fulfilling a campaign pledge from the Republican. Critics said the Trump administration’s contention that resuming sales would have negligible effects on the environment was absurd given the scope of the federal coal program. About 40% of coal burned in the U.S. comes from federal leases, primarily in Western states including Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana and New Mexico. Companies have mined about 4 billion tons of coal from federal reserves in the past decade, contributing $10 billion to federal and state coffers through royalties and other payments. In Wednesday’s report , the Bureau of Land Management analyzed applications from companies for coal leases totaling more than 2.5 billion tons of the fuel. Just over 5 billion tons of greenhouse gases would be produced by burning the fuel for electricity over the next 20 years, the agency said. That’s equivalent to just over 1 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector for 2017, according to the agency. The agency’s conclusion was based on the assumption that coal sales would have resumed as normal once the moratorium ended in 2019. “The lifting of the coal leasing pause would not change the cumulative levels of (greenhouse gas) emissions resulting from coal leasing,” officials wrote. Environmentalists who sued to reinstate the moratorium said that assumption was flawed. They also blasted officials for providing only a 15day comment period. “This seems to be both absurd and tremendously insulting to the public,” said attorney Michael Saul with the Center for Biological Diversity, one of several groups that sued to block the moratorium. “Economics plus physics tell us that mining more cheap coal means burning more coal, which means more CO2 in the atmosphere and a hotter planet.” The attorneys general of California, New Mexico, New York and Washington — all Democrats — also had challenged Trump’s move to end the moratorium. In his April ruling, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Montana said federal officials wrongly avoided an environmental review of their action by describing it “as a mere policy shift.” In so doing, officials ignored the environmental effects of selling huge volumes of coal from public lands, the judge said. The office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement that the Trump administration had rushed through its response to Morris’ order without making any substantive changes. Attorneys for the state were prepared to return to the judge to seek full compliance with the ruling, Becerra’s office said. A spokeswoman for the National Mining Association, which intervened in the court cases on behalf of the Trump administration, declined to comment on Wednesday’s report. The industry group has said previously that it was the Obama administration that violated federal law, by imposing the moratorium without first analyzing its effects on the coal industry. In February, Interior Department officials had announced a sale of coal leases on public lands in Utah by issuing a statement headlined “The War on Coal is Over.” They said the sale would not have been possible if the administration had not overturned the Obama-era moratorium. |