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Show The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 24-27, 2006 CITY BEAT CITY EDITOR: Jay Hamburger 649-9014 ext.1 I I citynews@parkrecord.com A-3 DON'T SIT ON THE FENCE -._-, _. --- Rademan's career honored JOIN US FOR OUR PRIX FIXE DINNER! (INCLUDING COMPLIMENTARY CORKAGE) FOR $24.75 Aged Black Angus Beef • Young Adults & Children's Menus Fresh Fish and Seafood • Lunch & Dinner • Live Entertainment Friday & Saturday Nights 45 Item Fresh Salad Bar Prospector Square Corner of Sidewinder Drive and Gold Dust Lane 6 4 9 - 8 0 6 0 • www.grubsteakrestaurant.com Get into a weekend state of mind! GRAYSON WESVPARK RECORD <Af£ Myles Rademan, City Hall's Public Affairs director, with dog Sierra in Round Valley, recently was inducted into the 2006 College of Fellows by the American Institute of Certified Planners. ers inio a city. "I've always used these towns as a laboratory for a wider view," Rademan says, talking about their vibrancy and that they do not fit typThe institute inducted Rademan By JAY HAMBURGER and 44 others into the College of ical planning-industry categories. 0/'the Record st{iff Fellows, including a congress- "These are not called 'micro-urban When Myles Rademan arrived woman from Ohio, during an April areas in rural settings." These are at City Hall in 1987, Park City's ceremony in San Antonio. The insti- dynamic little communities." boom years were still approaching, tute is the professional arm of the His Park City tenure wins accoholding a Winter Olympics in Ulah American Planning Association, an lades from colleagues, including seemed a tad ambitious and some- industry group. those who submitted letters supone talking about raising taxes to A spokesman for the association porting Rademan's nomination. buy open space likely would have says that a person inducted as a felRep. Ralph Becker, the been ridiculed. low attained the highest level of Democratic leader of the Utah But in almost 20 years, achievement in the field in the U.S. House of Representatives, says in a Rademan. City Hall's longtime There are about 350 such fellows in letter to the institute's selection Public Affairs director, has assumed America, the institute says, and committee that Rademan is a an influential role in the Park City inductions are held every two years. "giant" in the profession. government, becoming a principal "In the last 20 years he has Mayor Dana Williams touts architect of the city's vaunted open- Rademan's stature nationally when become the guide and voice for space program, acting as the city's talking about him, saying that his Park City, and often the most articuNo. 2 Winter Olympic planner and. background in ski country has made late, brilliant spokesperson for planmany times, being the person who is him a prominent figure in the fast- ning in the region," Becker says in asked to promote the government's growing region. But Williams also the 2(X)5 letter, provided to The agenda. insists that others who have ties to Park Record by Rademan. The American Institute of the government Toby Ross, the former city manassisted in Certified Planners recently inducted Rademan s successes. ager in Park City, says in an interRademan into its College of "I'm continually surprised when view that Rademan takes a "creFellows, an honor that recognizes a we go to other communities ever)' ative approach" to issues. Ross, who person's contributions to the field. single person knows who Myles served as City Hall's chief executive "It's Like a lifetime-achievement Rademan is," Williams says, from 1989 until 2002 and is now the award," Rademan says when describing Rademan as "exceeding- city manager in West Sacramento, describing how other people view ly eloquent" and noting his role as Calif., wrote a 2004 letter in support the induction. "It's like going of Rademan's nominato Cooperstown." tion. The worst thing that happens is Rademan, who is 61 years In the letter, Ross old. is trained as an attorney notes Rademan's foundbut spent most of his career dead silence. The best thing that hap- ing role of what became in civic planning in Colorado pens is when people can talk about an Leadership Park City, an and Park City, starting with annual program meant to the local government as the issue with civility." teach Parkites how to Planning director, a post he become involved. held for two years before "Look around - -Myles Rademan becoming the director of the City Council, advisoPublic Affairs director ry boards, leadership in Public Affairs in 1989. ^ ^ His role with the govern- ^ ^ ™ nonprofits - a lot of peoment, however, has been broad. He the organizer of annual trips to pie have gone through that prowas never pigeonholed into the typ- other Western resort communities. gram," Ross says. ical duties of a Public Affairs direcRademan says, through his tor like issuing press releases and A Western career career, he has avoided working in greeting high-ranking people to City bureaucratic settings and is happy Hall. Rademan instead was part of a with his colleagues. He is pleased Rademan, who is from the team in the 1990s, with people like with what many see as Park City's Philadelphia area, started his career ex-Mayor Brad Olch and Toby open-space successes, like protectRoss, the former city manager, that in the planning sector in 1971, in ing huge tracts of land in Round oversaw the city's boom years, try- Denver, where he was a city planner. Valley. ing to balance peoples wishes to He spent two years there before But he says that Parkites do not moving to Crested Butte, Colo., a cultivate the resort industry while always gush praise on City Hall attempting to retain the feel of a ski town where he stayed for 14 ideas, remembering that it was conyears and fought a mining company, small, friendly town. before moving to the Park City gov- troversial when the government first "Did I do that alone? No, but I ernment, first as the Planning direc- put flower baskets on Main Street was here." he says about some of tor for two years and then as the and when city leaders decided to the accomplishments he lists from Public Affairs chief. place a tall Olympic tower at Snow his tenure in Park City, such as the He delivers lectures, mostly in Creek. He prefers debate, however, Olympics, the construction of the the West, and says he likes to use to when people arc nol energized. Rail Trail and the renovation of the "The worst thing thai happens Crested Butte and Park City as once-decrepit Carl Winters is dead silence," Rademan says. Building, which was turned into the "bellwethers" for the rest of "The best thing that happens is America, talking about preservation Park City Library and Education of a community's history and mixing when people can talk about an Center. entertainment purveyors and retail- issue with civility." A\OAP • UTAH Fellowship induction is Mike going to Cooperstown/ he says BREAfCFAST • LUNCH • DINNE_R CORNER O r C&NTT.R AND MAIN - MOA5 435-259-8004 www.slickrockcafe.com Welcome "to Pa.i*Ic City. resh snow and tinnny. Axid that's just our winters. www.Diso Qver ParkCity. c om Discover what the locals have known for years. Park City resort living-. Where friendly people return your smile. And where home ownership is just the beginning. 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