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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 13-16, 2010 The Park Record The Good Guys know about our CITY BEAT CiTY EDITOR: Jay Hamburger 649-90I4 e x t l I I A-3 citynews@parkrecord.com Big project critiqued There's enough 'empty9 condos in Park City already By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff A critic of the Park City Heights development proposal - the project that partners City Hall with The Boyer Company - recently sent a message to the city's Planning Commission, saying "don't we have enough empty, undervalued condos in this town now?" The Planning Department this week released Jen Seabury's e-mail, dated Oct. 13, as the panel was preparing to continue its discussions about the Quinn's Junction development idea. Seabury's message said she is "just concerned" about the proposal. "And is just this another let Boycr get rich deal," she said in the e-mail. Seabury's message also touches on whether research into wildlife at the development site has been completed and whether enough study has been done into the environmental effects of the project. "The last low income housing was pushed in on wetlands behind the new post office and police station," the message said, referring to the City Hall-built Snow Creek Cottages work force development. "And now another huge project on our open space we paid for?" Meanwhile, Seabury also mentions what she describes as the asphalt "garbage dump" close to PC Hill along the S.R. 248 entryway. She said the site "looks like a NJ dump." The Planning Commission on Wednesday continued its discussions about the project, but the panel was not scheduled to make significant decisions. More talks are slated for later in 2010. The City Hall-Boyer Company partnership is seeking an approval for 239 units of development, with 160 of them being houses that would be sold on the open market and 79 of them being set aside as work force units that will be sold to people who qualify through their incomes. The work force units will be split between City Hall, The Boyer Company and Intermountain Healthcare, the developer of the Park City Medical Center. There has been little interest from regular Parkites in the discussions, making the message from Seabury some of the most notable input recently. Another person, Sally Fuegi, in October also sent a letter to the Planning Department, commenting about issues like driver access to the Park City Heights site. City Hall paid The Boyer Company $5.5 million for a 50 percent stake in the Park City Heights land. Park City leaders saw the deal as a rare opportunity to develop a large bloc of work force housing. AUTUMN LIGHT DINNER FARE DEALS! 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The September numbers relied heavily on two publicsector construction projects - the redo of the Racquet express PARK a r T 5 LOCAL HOT WATER EXPERT Club and the start of a transit from the same month the facility outside the Public year before and mixed from Works Building. The $17.4 the previous month. million was by a wide margin The Building the highest monthly total in Department's inspection load 2010. - 147 each day - fell from The Building Department the month before and was indicated the October activity down sharply from the 232 relied almost exclusively on each day counted in the prealterations and additions to vious October. either residences or commerThrough the end of cial buildings. The two cate- October, the Building gories accounted for all but Department had approved $92,242.69 of the overall $53.1 million worth of convalue of the permits issued in struction. At the same time October. That means devel- the year before, $64.4 million opers were not breaking had been tallied, leaving two ground on new projects. months for the industry to There were no permits issued make up the difference. for houses, duplexes, multiThe Building Department family developments, com- has long indicated the indusmercial buildings or industri- try might not match the dolal buildings. lar figure posted in 2009, Meanwhile, the number of itself a down year from the electrical, plumbing and record-setting days before mechanical permits was down onset of the recession. WE BEAT THE COMPETITION - INCLUDING HOME DEPOT - EVERY TIME! By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Tests on discolored tap water in Park City found elevated levels of arsenic, manganese and thallium, City Hall's water manager said late in the week, results that prompted officials to continue cautioning people in several neighborhoods not to drink the water. 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Showers for people in the neighborhoods who do not want to shower at their homes are available at City Hall's temporary recreation facility, 1255 Iron Horse Drive. Officials are posting information about the water on City Hall's website, www.parkcity.org. The water hotline number is 615-5320. OP Til TANK TYPE" STORAGE WATER HEATERS • BUSINESSES Contaminants found in water taminants were found in water that was tested early in the week. She said investigators had not determined the cause by midmorning Friday. However, she said the number of reports of discolored water fell sharply toward the end of the workweek. The Public Works Department is attempting to cleanse the system daily by sending fast-moving water through the lines in the affected neighborhoods, a process known as flushing. 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