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Show The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 2-5, 2005 •l.fey •:'• f>vrff CITY BEAT Housing at library nixed CITY EDITOR: Jay Hamburger 649-9014 ext.l 11 citynews@parkrecord.com A Warm Welcome Inside... for Skiers and Cowboys! • 2 8 day caged Black Angus Beef • Fresh Fish and Seafood Item Fresh Salad Bar • Young Adults &*. Children's Menus • Live Entortainment Friday & Saturday Nights 649-8O6O Prospector Square • Corner of Sidewinder and Gold Dust SLKKkPCK <Af£ SCOTT SINDPARK RECORD The Park City Council decided not to pursue an affordable-housing project on land outside the Park City Library and Education Center, off Park Avenue. City Hall staffers had identified the land as a potential location for such a project. Community Housing Trust, said the parcel had attributes desired in an aflordahle-liousing project, like ils location nearby a bus route. He said thai he had not who lives in Liberty Lake. Wash., By JAY HAMBURGER but grew up in Old Town, discussed the parcel with City Of the Record staff remembering watching Hall, however. Mountaiulands is a nonprofit Before pushing City Hall into Independence Day fireworks dedicate J to providing housing what likely would have been a from the parcel. dispute with neighbors, the Park Monson said she visits the options for people priced out of City Council nixed an idea lo land each day when she visits her Park City's resor I-driven realbuild an affordable-housing proj- mother's house on the 1 100 block cstatc market and sometimes works with the city- City Hall sees ect on a large swath of ground of Park Avenue, a block awayoutside the Library and "1 think everyone in the com- itself ;is another affordable-housEducation Center. munity has used this area," she ing champion and elected offiStaffers recommended in a said, describing the land as an cials generally support u theory recent report that the approxi- extension of City Park. "I think it that a community is enhanced mately one-acre parcel, on I he needs to stay exactly how il is." when people of diverse economic north side of the library, is suitThe recent housing recom- means live locally. Meanwhile, the report identiable for a small housing develop- mendation was made in an invenment. In the report, the govern- tory of City Hall-owned parcels fies an approximately four-acre piece of land at Snow Creek as a ment indicated that the housing with development potential. potential location for affordable could have been built on the housing. It is located on northern end of the parthe east side of S.R. 224. cel, leaving ihe remainder as park space. / think everyone in the community north of snow creek Drive and west of Dan's The recommendation contemplated between has used this- area. I think it-needs to Foods However," development may be hindered by two and four units of stay exactly how it is." wetlands restrictions on affordable housing. Bui Mayor Dana - Rebekka Monson the parcel. Williams said the government will furWilliams, a longtime Library park visitor ther research the developaf f o r d a b l e - h o u s i ng ment potential of Ihe land. advocate, said in an "We're not adverse to interview that the land is best preserved as isand the looking at that area as a locaIssued by Kent Cashel. the parcel, with ils size, is a rarity in deputy Public Works director, the tion," he said. Loomis at Mountainlands conOld Town. report-indicated that the parcel "This is the one open space in was a "viable candidate" for an curs that the Snow Creek land the middle of the city that is not affordable-housing project given has potential. "'That's a very viable project. planned and is open to every- ils proximity to the city's bus line body to use whenever they and other services. The report No. I, it s acreage," he said. maintained thai a project could want." Williams said. The report contemplates He said there are contrasts be built at the site in a manner affordable housing on a third smaller sobetween the land north of the that retains a football-sized space piece of land, the called 'Pechnik1 parcel, 154 library and City Park, which is for recreational use. across Park Avenue from the parThe city had not designed a Marsac Ave. It says that the land cel, influencing the movement lo housing project on the site and could be sold or traded as part of keep the library land undevel- money is not budgeted, the an affordable-housing project. oped. City Park hosts lots of report said. Another parcel of note organized sports competitions Affordable-housing proposals addressed in the report is an while people generally using the sometimes draw opposition from approximately 8.5-acre tract off parcel north of the library are neighbors, most notably in recent S.R. 224 and Holiday Ranch stopping by. the mayor said. years when Mountain lands Loop Road, where a sewer-lrcatAt aboul noon on Thursday, Community Housing Trust con- ment plant once stood. The the Monson family was pleased sidered a project in Chatham report recommends that the land to hear that the government had Hills. People living nearby were be used for a park, a lire station decided against developing the dismayed and opposition mount- and a water-treatment facility. In land. Rchckka Monson and her ed before Mountainlands scut- 2002. Park City Councilman Jim husband were enjoying the sunny tled the project. The ground out- Hier publicized an interest in weather as her 2 J/2-year-old son side the library is nearby a num- building an affordable-housing ber of condominium buildings project at the site but the idea was sledding on the land. drew criticism from some living "I don't think there needs to and homes. nearby who wanted the parcel be housing here. Old Town is Scott Loomis, the executive kept undeveloped. crowded as it is." said Monson. director of Mountainlands A\OA5 Atrium ft:ir f* Kcsl'nunjnL ..Sentmg • Authentic Logo Gear &• Girt 5nop 5 R E A K r A S T - LUNCH • DINNER CORNER Or CENTER AND MAIN - MOA5 Tract of land was initially seen as a spot for affordable housing Social Climber? Make room for the all new Cayenne. • UTAH 435-259-8004 www.illckrockcafft.com OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY APRIL 2 , 1 2 - 4 p m Visit one of the finest family sfei nonrie$ jln tl^e Oak$ on Saturday! 7 Bedrooms . 5.5 Baths Approx. 6214 Sq. 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