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Show C-1 B-1 DO IT YOURSELF DURING SLAMDANCE FESTIVAL EDUCATION, A-9 HIGH SCHOOL HOOPS: SHOULD CLOCK TICK? SOUTH SUMMIT CONSIDERS DRAFTING ARCHITECTURAL FIRM The Share your event! To add an event to our calendar, visit www.parkrecord.com/eventsubmissionform COLUMNS, A-18 JAY MEEHAN ENJOYED THE OPENING DAYS OF SUNDANCE Park Record. PARK CITY , UTAH | WWW.PARKRECORD.COM Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 27-29, 2016 Serving Summit County since 1880 Helicopter A cast of volunteers flights are grounded Vol. 135 | No. 102 50¢ Healthcare is critical to Legislature PHOTO BY SAM RUBIN Uber operated a helicopter service called UberCHOPPER at the opening of the Sundance Film Festival, landing in the Snyderville Basin. The photograph, provided by Uber driver Sam Rubin, was taken off Old Ranch Road on Jan. 21, the first day of Sundance. Settlement ends the controversial service COURTESY OF UTAH LEGISLATURE JAKE SHANE/PARK RECORD Michael Reed Mclaughlin, a Sundance Film Festival volunteer, was spotted outside the Egyptian Theatre on Saturday. Sundance has long acknowledged the importance of volunteers. By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Sundance Film Festival drama stretched from the screens to the skies during the opening weekend of the event as on-demand helicopter services flew people to Park City. It was a situation that quickly moved from a landing zone in a Snyderville Basin field to a courtroom before the County Courthouse reached a settlement that ended the flights over the weekend. It was an unexpected controversy at the opening of the film festival, pitting Summit County officials against helicopter firms and landowners. The situation was also closely watched by people who live in neighborhoods close to the landing location and along the flight path of the helicopters. The County Courthouse on Saturday reached two settlement agreements to end the flights. One of them was with the parties involved in UberCHOPPER flights while the other was with the parties tied to helicopter service by another firm called Blade. Both UberCHOPPER and Blade were operating in the Park City area at the start of Sundance. The settlement agreements called for the helicopter services to stop in exchange for Summit County withdrawing a lawsuit filed in 3rd District Court that attempted to end the flights. None of the sides admitted fault as part of the settlements and the agreements did not call for financial compensation for any of the parties. The agreements, meanwhile, indicate the helicopter firms are allowed to seek approval for similar flights in the future by securing the required approvals. The Please see Flights, A-2 3 sections • 42 pages Classifieds ........................... C-10 Columns .............................. A-18 Crossword ........................... 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Last week, County Attorney Robert Hilder met with the Summit County Council to examine the Animal Control ordinances within each jurisdiction and provide some legal direction on how Animal Control should approach enforcement, especially in Round Valley. With the city's recent designation of 1,400 acres of Round Val- ley as an off-leash area, county officials were left wondering how it would impact the land under its jurisdiction. According to a long-standing agreement between the city and the county, Animal Control officers are only supposed to enforce the city's ordinances upon request. However, Hilder said, over the years an officer has been assigned to patrol within the city limits. County officials say that will no longer be the practice and its Animal Control officers will respond on an as-needed basis. Park City law officers will be responsible for enforcement, according to officials. "We made an agreement and we are very supportive of the agreement so we will no longer have someone assigned to patrol Round Valley or Park City," Hilder said. "We are putting the policing back on the city. But if anything happens or if someone is injured, we should be called. Please see Support role, A-2 The Utah House of Representatives minority leader, Democrat Brian King, says he worries Republicans and Democrats are becoming too combative to make substantive progress. Leader of Democrats wants to ensure expansion of Medicaid By JEFF DEMPSEY The Park Record As House Minority Leader and District 28 Representative Brian King prepares for the start of the 2016 legislative session, he said he looks back on 2015 as a year of successes and letdowns. "I thought it was a great thing that we passed the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, HB 348," he said. "That will bring a lot of good things to pass for our criminal justice system. I was also happy with the anti-discrimination bill on the LGBT front. As for bad things, the failure to pass full Medicaid expansion or, at the very least, Healthy Utah, was disappointing." King said for 2016, his first hope is that Healthy Utah will pass through the House successfully. Healthcare, he said, remains at the forefront. Please see Legislator, A-7 Parking problematic The Sundance sounds Complaints logged in Park City during opening of festival By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Parking spots in Park City are, as many Sundance Film Festival veterans understand, at a premium during the festival. Many people apparently attempted to make their own spots during the opening days of the festival. The Park City Police Department reported a string of cases involving parking problems between the start of Sundance on Thursday and the close of the especially busy first weekend on Sunday. The Police Department in recent weeks has dealt with numerous parking problems as a result of heavy snowfall in late December that left streets narrowed by piles of snow as holiday crowds arrived. But the Sundance crowds, typically some of the largest of the year, attempted to carve out parking spots in places that were problematic, the Police Department says. There are parking problems annually during Sundance, but the snow still left from the December storms apparently made the situation even worse. "We certainly had a fair share of them," said Phil Kirk, a Police Department captain who oversees the department's operations. Some of the issues since the start of Sundance have included drivers parking on Main Street, which has been turned into a drop-off and delivery zone, people leaving vehicles well off the curb and drivers parking too close to driveways. The driveway issue has been especially widespread along Park Avenue, Kirk said. There have also been issues involving drivers parking on Old Town streets where residential NAN CHALAT NOAKER/PARK RECORD Gingger Shankar performs a piece on a double violin during the Sundance Film Festipermits are required, he said. val. Shankar was involved in a multimedia piece entitled "Nari." It highlights the rise The problems have been "aggra- of Indian music in the U.S. in the 1970s. Please see Parking, A-2 VISITOR GUIDE Art fans will join film fans on Friday in Park City On the last Friday of each month, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., members of the Park City Art Gallery Association offer a free, unique showcase highlighting artists, special exhibits and art events. This month's stroll will be held Friday, Jan. 29. Visit any of the participating galleries to pick up a free gallery guide. For more information, visit www.parkcitygalleryassociation.com. |