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Show mwtik iPirojdefiii w& Tsa Imz ipn By Linda Berman and Geoffrey Miller It is hard to imagine what Park City will be like less than 10 years from now. But, on the basis of extensive ex-tensive interviews and research, The Record has learned the following: The town's population, now 3,000 will increase dramatically. Estimates Es-timates for 1980 vary from a conser vative 16,000 to a high of 37,500. The Resort Company will develop de-velop a whole new mountain, larger than the present area and reportedly reported-ly with better skiing. Park City will become an increasingly in-creasingly important center for the arts. The Utah Symphony of Ballet West may be attracted to town, and GPCC President Warren King says the Resort may build a miniature "Salt Palace." ' Virtually all available land in Park City will have been developed by 1980. The town's economy will be strengthened by the growth of a "bedroom community" for Salt Lake commutors and to some extent by increased mining activity. Meanwhile, development of the Wasatch Mountain State Park and the Jordanelle Reservoir will increase in-crease Park City's desirability as a resort area. With this almost unbelievable unbeliev-able projected growth, the need for control and direction direc-tion is obvious. There are two main factors controlling Park City's growth today. One is the Master Plan, which, when it is converted into a zoning ordinance, will provide legal restraints on growth. But, even with the proposed propos-ed zoning, Park City could still grow, far beyond what most residents consider desirable. de-sirable. Resort officials estimate es-timate they could build almost 40,000 units on their land, which would give the town a population of at least 120,000 but their plans call for much less development. A record factor controlling controll-ing growth is constraint on the part of GPCC itself. Resort company plans call for a density of less than three units per developable area, while the town's C-R zoning permits up to eight . units per acre. two buildings under construction. con-struction. Resort officials say these large, Victorian structures will belike what the successful success-ful Park City miners would have built if they hadn't moved mov-ed to Salt Lake. Other developments planned plan-ned in the Resort Village area will be a Sheraton Inn and condominiums developed develop-ed by the Destination Resort Company. When the Resort Village is fully developed, it will occupy oc-cupy both ski area parking lots. Day skiers will have to park near the sewage treat- . ment plant and be bussed to the lifts. GPCC Communications Director Dale Zabriskie emphasized em-phasized that aside from the buildings under construction, construc-tion, plans are not yet final for the Resort Village. The buildings appearing in the illustration are merely impressions im-pressions of what the final village may look like. ' ; 7 ' ' Y Y - ; ? 1 ,i-v"i: ss j, :- , 4 r i- - , ""-. YYrY . -i ' ';t -'" " - . :."." :: f .-!;.. .i' Y yJ", '),'' 1 J . . ;:-'- '. '- i s ' $ S - J- y.y- --:r:.i A"- . : - , m-' j- , Y:Y.i . ' M; - r r ' v -". " " i-J v "y k . -k, .. -m-'sm , , ,: . ; V tN' C-vfc, '"ifE ' . 1 -Y-r -v.'f 1 ; .-',f Y' z -- - iyy, l I -vi-TH-STTtTr1;--; yyy ; ,r y' : Because GPCC controls most of the developable land, Park City will have a-more unified appearance than if the town were developed by a number of small, independent independ-ent companies. Resort Village Anyone visiting the Resort center can see the first two buildings of a projected major development, officially official-ly called "Treasure Mountain Moun-tain Community." Jack Johnson, head of GPCC Design and Planning Office, said the Resort village vil-lage will be "our shot at Victorian architecture the way we see Victorian." The Resort village will be a cluster of four-story buildings build-ings (the maximum height Holiday Ranch The Holiday Ranch community com-munity will be a combination of single and multi-family housing with recreational facilities, the new high school, three churches, and possibly the p r o p o s e d Institute In-stitute for the Arts. As the development plan shows, there will be seven clusters of condominiums units separated by the open spaces of an 18-hole golf course. This golf course is already fully designed by GPCC. The Holiday Ranchettes are individual lots on which the owners will buildjheir own homes. With the opening oX'the?, Catholic, Community. 'and Y LDSychurches in the Holiday 1 Ranfjh area, and with the building of the new high school dii adjoining land, (Continued on Page Three) nr!lpi? n of the resort vilIaS"e- two buildings in this development GPCC officials emphasize that only have been designed. ing codes). The first floor will be shops, while the top three floors will be condominium condom-inium apartments. Johnson said all the shop space is already taken in the - , - V i ! -' . .,- ;- i .' --- . ; .-,':7 .'. ' ' ' V ' ' . . - .. " -n y: v V ! f .,: . j , , si-S' , 5 . "' I ! i . f J - ' - - - ... , . .. .... . . ' - ' . ...-x.,., .. ..... Greater Palrk City Company's most recent development plan showing proposed future locations. 1, Treasure Trea-sure Mountain Community; 2, Holi day Ranch; 3, Union America; 4, Holiday Inn; 5, Deer Valley-Lake Flat; 6, Prospector Square. Map Reveals Enact Future Development Locations (Continued Trom Page One) many of the "community" functions currently located in historic Park City will move into this new area of town. In addition, the new residents res-idents of Holiday Ranch and the Resort Village will not have to go to Main Street to do their shopping. The many new shops at the Resort Re-sort Village will be augmented augment-ed by the Prospector Square Shopping. (To be discussed later in this article). Resort officials hope that the Holiday Ranch Community, Commun-ity, especially the Ranchette lots, will attract a permanent, perm-anent, non-recreational population pop-ulation of Salt Lake com-mutors. com-mutors. As GPCC Executive Vice President Bob Wells said, "Park City is the logical place for Salt Lake to grow. Right now, people living in west Salt Lake are driving further to the center of town than they would from Park City. Park City Institute A major part of the Holiday Hol-iday Ranch Community will be the Park City Institute for the Arts and Sciences, a cooperative venture between the University of Utah and GPCC. According to Dr. Oakley Gordon, Dean of the Division Div-ision of Continuing Education, Educa-tion, the University is still negotiating with the Resort. Dr. Gordon said that the only thing certain about the Institute is that it will be in Park City. Officials have still not decided whether the Institute will be an intellectual intellec-tual "retreat" with seminars and lectures, or whether it will be a performing arts center with concert hall and theater facilities. Whatever its eventual form, the Park City Institute is certain to bring ParkCity additional prestige as a cultural cul-tural center, and will make the town a more desirable place to live. In addition to the Holiday Ranch and Resort Village, there are other small developments de-velopments planned for this area north of Park City Center. Cen-ter. One is the UnionAmerica Lodge. This is a small lodge to be built for guests and executives of one of GPCC's parent companies. This lodge will have nine condominium con-dominium units and a tenth unit used as a common area. The other development will be the Holiday Inn located locat-ed across from ParkAvenue Condominiums. Resort officials emphasize em-phasize that this Holiday Inn won't look like the tacky buildings along the Interstate, Inter-state, but will be architecturally architect-urally consistent with Park City's historic atmosphere. The Resort gave fran chises to the Holiday Inn and Sheritan, GPCC officials claim, because the two organizations or-ganizations have nationwide referral and reservation services. Deer Valley Perhaps the most ambitious am-bitious project now planned by the Resort Company is the Deer Valley Lake Flat Community. Jack Johnson says this area will be the Resort's "prize development." The Resort plans to have several self-contained villages high on the mountain with no vehicular ve-hicular access. These villages, which will contain hotels, restaurants, condominiums, and perhaps stores, will be reached by a tramway or by skiis. The only vehicle serving them will be a four-wheel drive emergency jeep or truck, Johnson said. The Resort is also con sidering filling the depression depres-sion at the center of Deer Valley to form a lake around which GPCC could build condos. Of course, the prime attraction of the Deer Valley Community will be the ski area located on Bald Mountain. Moun-tain. Johnson said this area will be larger than the existing ones and because of its northern exposure, will have better snow. Johnson, who has skied the mountain by helicopter, said the runs were "great." When the development is complete, skiers will be able to move from one area to the other without having to take off their skiis. The final area will have 24 or 25 lifts, as compared to the existing nine. The contour of one of Deer Valley's slopes is ideal for ski-jumping and the Resort plans to build between one and three jumps in the future. The completed Park City area will be able to accommodate accom-modate 20-25,000 skiers. To house them, the Resort plans to build or have built between be-tween 5 and 6000 units a typical unit is a 2-3 bedroom apartment. ' Figuring on about four persons per unit, between 20-25,000 people will eventually event-ually be housed on Resort property. In addition, other developers develop-ers will be building housing in the near future. Jack Johnson John-son believes there may be as many as 37,500 permanent and transient residents in town by 1980 a figure over double that predicted by Master Planner Gene Carr. Thus, far from being a ."small town", Park City could be one of the larger towns in Utah in five - seven (Continued on Page Four) Cifly Moves lo Improve Services To Permit 6roi'Jv!i " i.'.-vrf'-'.j n. ! - :x -! jji m ! - 'i if iVm 1 ' i ., M -Si-J-' :'M . ' ' ii" S S - ... 4I , J B 'if 1 i ? - t . 4 1 - I ; v f - ! r. iLfl I th: i j f : Mi,., , , ( , ... : '- : - I (Continued from Page Three) years. Is Growth Inevitable The major development . aside from the Resort will be Prospector Square. This 48.2 acre site, being developed by Ed Vettor o f the Murray First Thrift Corporation, Cor-poration, will be similar to the Resort Village in that it will combine shops and residential res-idential units. A pedestrian mall and a skating rink will be major attractions of the Prospector Prospec-tor Square development. Developer Elwood Nielson owns a slightly smaller tract of land south of Prospector Square. Nielson reportedly intends to build high-density condominiums con-dominiums in the area though he has the problem that his access to the main road is currently controlled by his competitor GPCC. Other developments that will affect the town's growth are the proposed ski-area construction in the Wasatch Mountain State Park south of town, and the Jordanelle Reservoir, scheduled for completion in 1980. This giant reservoir will extend to within two and one-half miles of the town's border, and will bringfurth-er bringfurth-er business to Park City. Other Development Not many Park City residents res-idents have an accurate idea of Park City's future growth or its impact on their lives. Some typical attitudes are Unionamerica Lodge, a proposed 10 unit development situated next to a ski slope. that the lack of city services will keep town size what it is, or growth is inevitable, so why stop it? Neither of these are correct. The city has made prodigious prod-igious and successful efforts to improve its services in order to permit growth. Annexation An-nexation into the Snyderville Sewer District has solved that problem, while development develop-ment of the Theriot Spring and Judge Shaft water sources will provide the city with sufficient water for at least several years. Though development has been held up by a building moratorium and tight money, Jack Johnson predicts that Park City will see more building development next year than it has ever seen. On the other hand, though growth will not be stopped by inadequate services, neither is it inevitable. At least one ski town, Crested Butte, Colorado, severalyears ago, made a conscious decision not to grow, and it has remained re-mained a tiny but charming hamlet. Citizens of Park City must decide whether the benefits of growth, such as a better standard of living, exceed the costs, such as the loss of a small town atmosphere. However, the odds are highly stacked against stopping stop-ping growth in its tracks. There are basically four powerful influences in town, (Continued on Page Five) POPULATION 15,000 i i i 'i i i iy 10,000 ' 5,000 4,000 3,000 : -f- 2.000 y ' 1.450 - ' 1000l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1960 1963 1966 1970 1971 1972 1973 1975 1980 One projection of population growth for Park City. Other estimates pre dict a 1980 population more than double this projection. One view of what Prospector Square storefronts might look; like. Businesses Will Sain Revenue (Continued from Page Four) and all of them stand to gain from development. The United Park City Mine Company receives a percentage of revenue for leasing the mountain to GPCC. Furthermore, the more Park City grows, the more United Park's land holdings will skyrocket in GPCC will obviously gain value. the most from town growth. Local businesses look forward for-ward to the prospect of gaining gain-ing tens of millions of dollars dol-lars in additional revenue, as the town develops. And the local government has clearly supported responsible res-ponsible growth by clearing away the obstacles in its way. There appears to be a consensus con-sensus among those with influence in-fluence in Park City that controlled con-trolled growth is desirable a feeling the NTDS survey showed was generally shared shar-ed by the man in the street. But Park City citizens should keep themselves informed in-formed about proposals for development so that growth comes as somethingthey desire de-sire rather than something they don't understand and can do nothing about. Editor's Note: The Record Re-cord would like to thank the many 'people who helped us research this series. We're especially espec-ially grateful to Gene Carr, John Price, Mary Lehmer, Wayne Mathews, Mat-hews, Bruce Decker, Warren King, Dale Za-briskie, Za-briskie, Jan Wilking, Bob Wells and Jack Johnson. |