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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 16-19, 2019 A-3 The Park Record City Beat Look for me online at PropertyShopParkCity CITY EDITOR: JAY HAMBURGER 649–9014 EXT. 15712 | Citynews@parkrecord.com FaceBook Main Street: Combat traffic Instagram R E A L E S TAT E I N S I G H T S . S TA G E D V S VA C A N T H O M E S It’s always easier if a home is furnished or staged versus a home that’s vacant, because a family needs to see what the home is like when their belongings are there. Buyers have a hard time making sense of open spaces. By properly staging a home, you give the buyer an idea of how the home looks when it’s fully furnished. I offer a complimentary staging consultation service to help make your home stand out to perspective buyers. M I C H A E L H AT Z G L O B A L R E A L E S TAT E A D V I S O R +1 4 3 5 9 0 1 - 0 7 2 1 w w w . M i c h a e l H a t z . R E A LT O R ©2019 Engel & Völkers. All rights reserved. Each brokerage independently owned and operated. Engel & Völkers and its independent License Partners are Equal Opportunity Employers and fully support the principals of the Fair Housing Act. If your property is currently represented by a real estate broker, this is not an attempt to solicit your listing. JAY HAMBURGER/PARK RECORD The Old Town transit center, located on Swede Alley, would be expected to be crucial to any revamped transportation plans for the Main Street core. The Historic Park City Alliance, which represents businesses along Main Street or just off the street, has called for the development of a park-and-ride lot for employees as part of a wide-ranging memo to Park City leaders as talks about traffic and transportation planning continue. Business group says aggressive action needed JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The group that represents businesses along Main Street or just off the street has called for the development of a parkand-ride lot, something that would likely be a major project even for a municipal government that is stressing transit as a key step to reducing traffic. The Historic Park City Alliance in a wide-ranging memo to Park City leaders broached the idea of a park-and-ride lot dedicated for people who work in the Main Street core. The memo was drafted and forwarded to Mayor Andy Beerman and the Park City Council amid the continuing discussions about traffic and parking. City Hall, Main Street, the transportation industry and people who live close to the commercial district are engaged in talks about topics like setting aside certain spots for taxis and shuttles to drop off and pick up passengers and the overall circulation of traffic on Main Street and in surrounding Old Town. The memo addresses the concept of the spots for taxis and shuttles to drop off and pick up passengers, which was heavily debated at a recent City Council meeting, but it also delved further into issues that have long challenged the Main Street commercial district. The section regarding the development of a park-andride lot for Main Street workers is especially intriguing since it addresses what many see as a crucial improvement that would be designed to reduce the number of workers who drive into the Main Street core, adding to the traffic. The memo from the Historic Park City Alliance puts a parkand-ride lot into a category of investment that is needed before City Hall enacts further restrictions. “Procurement, design, and development of a convenient and well-designed employee park and ride / shuttle lot with frequency and flexibility of service to meet seasonal, year round, and event specific needs,” the memo says. The three-page memo, though, does not provide details. It does not discuss topics like the location or size of a park-and-ride lot like the one the Historic Park City Alliance desires. It also does not address costs. The Historic Park City Alliance, meanwhile, makes a series of other requests or broaches other issues in the memo, which was drafted in August and retains importance as the discussions continue. They include: • seeking a “better strategy and infrastructure to capture visitor and destination trips and distribute them to the historic district efficiently where that is their preferred destina- tion.” The memo wants “cooperative discussion about changes, replacement, or enhancement of satellite parking facilities and the level of transit service provided from those facilities.” • a call for “recognition and provision of solutions for a workforce that is necessary to support our economy but that is more and more dispersed throughout the region due to housing costs and other economic pressures.” • a desire for a “recognition of the cumulative impacts impacting traffic in and to the historic district that are and will continue to be heavily influence by dramatic changes in the regional development patterns due to new development outside the district and in some cases outside the municipal limits, annexation proposals, and other regional influences.” It also notes the “conversion of commercial space within the district to uses with greater intensity of employee generation, parking and trip demand without adequate tools to mitigate those impacts.” “In summary, we are willing partners to one more experiment in parking management to help meet community transportation goals through the designation of limited trial drop off / pick up zones,” the memo says. “But we are also adamant that before any subsequent steps are taken to restrict parking and transportation service in the historic district the Council and Please see Combat, A-4 HUGE LIQUIDATION SALE!!! 75% OFF EVERYTHING UPSTAIRS IS NOW… 75% OFF!!! 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