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Show JUNE 1996 sions point. grew to the breaking Two Old Town residents who STILL GRAPPLING WITH IT’S By PAST Christopher Smart t the bottom of quaint, little Main Street in Park City, huge buildings are going up, right along with tensions in this one-time mining camp turned international ski resort. Meanwhile, the city council has slapped a very restrictive height ordinance on the residential zone within .anes oc the historic district — leading some people to label the How to preserve Park action as a de facto fierce debate building moratorium. The new height restrictions and the emerging urban-scale construction around what is known as the Town Lift project at the bottom of Main ep! nO woode Woo r 2 4 * e City’s historic district is the subject of Street, have many Parkites upset. As the city council prepared to approve a ski bridge across Park Avenue in the historic district late last month, ten- have prided themselves on cooperation rather than confrontation, had apparently had enough. Longtime Parkites Mary Wintzer and Marianne Cone, who usually keep low profiles, went on the community radio station to decry the city council as people who care’more about investment property than they do about the town, itself. Not far away, a pair of architects were leading a revolt of their own. Quentin Scott and Peter Barnes had hired an attorney and were fighting the municipality to a standstill on the new ordinance that allows a maximum 27-foot height limit on houses in the historic district. Not only does the ordinance make building economically impossible on the expensive and steep lots, but it is legally flawed, they argue. All of that came after the eyebrow-raising specter of the Park City Council meeting on a 24hour notice in February to halt new construction on Main Street, by imposing a six-month ordinance restricting heights to 27 feet in the historic commercial district, as well. This, coming only months after Mayor Brad Olch’s Continued on page eels Einstein Bros. Where of you'll find [7 kinds of bagels, IS kinds of cream cheese, sandwiches, salads, really “good coffee drinks, iced Teas 2 and the father of all Dadls PY Day deals. & oot ge. Free bagel and . any purchase. * wot Ay, > % ot ¢ 2 SB - 2 tues F % €r's Day ce x —— Y, NS A X® 900d time to s{dR a @ e VW Park City 1890 Bonanza Drive 801-645-8489 9 3 ¢ = _ouione | % g fetus fool with ©. this line) a oe = oO = “ = & ~~ = 3 BAGELS (03 ©1996 Einstein Bros. Bagels, Inc. a & oureOot 196, 6 Only one coupon per visit. Coupon is not redeemable with any other coupon or special offer (duh). No reproductions allowed. Cash redemption value 1/20th of one cent (don’t quit your day job). Applicable taxes paid by bearer (that’s you). Valid at all a Utah locations. Expires 7/30/96. - i es z Terhaps the world’s best bagels. s eream cheese with 12 |