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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 5-8, 2005 The Park Record A-4 Skate park scintillates A crowd gathered at Miners Hospital on Tuesday to look at plans for the expansion of the City Park skateboard park. From left, David O'Day, Mike O'Day, Paddy O'Conner and Jenny O'Day studied some of the blueprints. Ken Fisher, the recreation services manager, said about 40 people attended. The crowd liked a concept with a street course featuring rails, ledges and stairs as well as a bowl, Fisher said. He said the government wants to open the expansion by Independence Day. It will cost about $275,000. SCOTT SINE;PARKRECORD CITY BRIEFS If (he Cily Council eventually accepts the petitions, which is usually a non-controversial procedural vote, the landowners begin more detailed talks with Before the Park City Council the government. delayed initial deliberations The Planning Commission regarding two proposed Quinifs first considers an annexation and Junction annexations, Cily Hall makes its recommendation to the staffers had reconimcndcd (hat City Council, which has authority Ihc elected officials reject the over such applications. I a n d ow n e r s' annexation petiBoth annexation petitions are tions. tentatively scheduled to return lo According to reports submit- the City Council at a meeting on ted lo the City Council before- March "10. hand, the Planning Department The 257-acre Park City had technical issues with the Heights annexation envisions 352 applications, for the Park City residential units and 200.000 Heights development and the Qu inn's Junction Partnership square feel of commercial space on the southwest corner of project. Quinn's Junction, which is at the The reports indicate that the intersection of S.R. 24N and U.S. annexations, if they were com- 40. pleted, would create so-called Quinn's Junction Partnership islands of land not within the city wants lo bring 30 acres into the but surrounded by Park City's city, also on the southwest corner limits. of the junction. The islands are parcels not The developers see the project included in the application. as an entertainment complex Both of the annexation peti- with 300,000 square feet of pertions were originally scheduled formance halls, theaters and for voles in mid-February. other commercial space. V Annexation deliberations $ A VI AT 1 0 The project is modeled aftvr Branson. Mo., one of America's best-known country music destination. Main Street trolley's popular The Main Street trolley, which re-appeared in early February after a previous model was destroyed in a fire, is proving popular. City Hall reports. According lo a release from Ihe government, the trolley carried 7.647 passengers from Feb. 5 to Feb. ] 9. a timeframe that includes the beginning of the busy President's Day weekend. The period was the first two weeks that the new vehicles was in operation. That represents an increase of more than 1.700 passengers from the year before and more than 3,600 from 2003, according to the city. In the release, Eric Nessel. who manages the city's transportation system, credits a mar- keting effort for ihe increase in riders. "We installed new trolley slop signs, printed free postcards with trolley photos and had drivers ring the bell more often to let people know it was coming." he said. He also said thai the new trolley looks better than the one that was destroyed. After the electrical fire at the Public Works Building claimed the previous trolley, the city used a shuttle on the trolley's route. The trolley makes laps on Main Street during the d;iy ;md evening. It is free and lots of people board the vehicle lo travel either up or down the street. Others lake their kids on board as a noveUy. "We feel that ihe increase in numbers in 2005 is attributable lo how greal the new trolley looks and the belter graphics on the trolley, which tell people that it is free and advertise ihe historic nature of Main Streel." Ncssut said in the release. 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