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Summit County in the agreements acknowledged that the helicopter firms "are welcome to apply for permits, code amendments, licenses, title, permission, and certification from Summit County and shall be treated in the same manner Summit County would treat any other applicant." Summit County Attorney Robert Hilder said there were talks with the Summit County Council and discussions between Hilder and attorneys for the helicopter firms on Saturday. Sundance organizers also spoke to Hilder over the weekend expressing a desire that the flights stop until they were properly authorized, according to Hilder. Hilder said he anticipates the County Courthouse will eventually receive applications for zoning changes and permits for helicopter-landing locations or for a prohibition on them. The helicopter services started at about the same time Sundance opened on Jan. 21. There were two take-off and landing locations in the Snyderville Basin, both along Old Ranch Road. The County Courthouse, though, said no application had been filed to operate there. Summit County officials also said there is not a zoning district in the Snyderville Basin that allows a helipad. Courtroom landing zone The sides headed to 3rd District Court Friday afternoon for a hearing in front of Judge Kara Pettit. The judge declined to grant a temporary restraining order against the helicopter services sought by the County Courthouse. Pettit denied two applications for temporary restraining orders, which would have stopped the flights for the time being. Hilder and attorneys for the parties involved in the helicopter flights or the landing sites focused on issues like permitting and the types of uses allowed on the land. Hilder told the judge there had been "no permits sought or received." There is not a recognized use in Summit County's zoning for helicopter landings, he said. "It is not a commercial area . . . It is not permitted for a landing," Hilder said. Pat Putt, the community development director for Summit County, under questioning by Hilder, said he had not been contacted directly about the situation and there had not been an application filed. He said the County Courthouse would need to change its zoning rules Continued from A-1 Parking problematic vated with all the snow buildup," Kirk said. He added that snow-removal efforts continued as the festival opened. Police Department logs from the opening weekend of Sundance illustrated the breadth of the parking problems. The reports were logged on numerous streets in Park City. There was a concentration in Old Town, but the problems stretched well off the Main Street core. The reports included several heavy stretches. In a little more than two hours on Sunday, starting at 8:03 a.m., 13 parking problems were reported on streets like Iron Horse Drive, Park Avenue and Three Kings Drive. Eleven to allow a helicopter pad, a process that could take up to eight weeks. One of the attorneys on the other side, though, questioned whether the Summit County Attorney's Office sought a temporary restraining order against the proper party. David Jordan sought to learn whether Summit County's research was accurate and whether the accurate landowner - DA Osguthorpe Trust -- was named in the case. The Osguthorpes are a large landowner in the Snyderville Basin, but there was a discussion about the conveyance of the property. Jordan said there was no basis to grant a temporary restraining order if the wrong landowner is named. Hilder countered that the temporary restraining order request was based on protecting health and safety and that the County Courthouse's filings also named the helicopter parties. Putt, responding to Hilder, said it is not unusual for a government to take action against an entity that is not the landowner itself, such as a leaseholder. Hilder conceded the ability to name the proper landowner was problematic on Friday afternoon, but he said the temporary restraining order sought to stop the activity of the helicopter flights itself. He said one of the parties named, called Air Resources, is the user. Hilder told Pettit it is believed the proper party is named, but he was not yet able to provide the details. The hearing, meanwhile, recounted briefly the talks between the helicopter companies and Summit County officials in the last days prior to the opening of Sundance. Jordan said there were negotiations on Thursday about a resolution that would have allowed landings at a helipad at the Summit County Sheriff's Office. "Everyone shook on it," he said, describing that the Summit County side later said otherwise. Hilder responded by saying Summit County attempted to accommodate the situation but later could not more forward. Pettit told the attorneys toward the end of the 90-minute hearing she was uncomfortable making a ruling on the request for the temporary restraining order with the information she had culled. In a prepared statement released by Uber after the settlement, a spokeswoman for the company said Uber remained at Sundance with vehicle transportation. "We may no longer be in the air, but Uber operations continue to soar on the ground where we remain committed to offering riders a world-class experience at the Sundance Film Festival, and to getting festival-goers from point A to point B reliably and safely," the spokeswoman, Taylor Patterson, said. Uber later said it had completed approximately 30,000 vehicle trips in the Park City area between Thursday and Sunday, triple the number of trips during the same time period in 2015. Of the approximately 30,000 trips, 5,000 of them departed from the Uber Lounge in the flagpole lot on Swede Alley, Uber said. parking problems were reported from late morning until midafternoon on Sunday on streets like Park Avenue and Woodside Avenue. During one period on Saturday, meanwhile, there were six problems reported in 21 minutes starting at 1:56 p.m. The cases were logged on Deer Valley Drive, and Woodside Avenue. Four problems were reported on Swede Alley over the course of 36 minutes on Jan. 21, the first day of Sundance. Kirk said "very few" of the problem vehicles were towed. In many of the other cases the police found the vehicle owner. Kirk said the Police Department issued approximately 12 tickets and another 36 warnings. The parking situation in Park City during Sundance is tighter than at any other point in the year. Many public spots in the Main Street core that are normally available are either barricaded or are turned into paid spots. Privately held garages or lots on or close to Main Street charge premium prices during Sundance. Tickets still available Someone can get into a Sundance screening or a Slamdance film By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record A big misconception when it comes to the last days of the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals is that all of the tickets for the remaining screenings are sold out. That's not the case for Slamdance, said Adam Kaufmann, Slamdance ticket manager. "Right now, we have tickets available for everything that is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday," Kaufmann told The Park Record. "We also have tickets we set aside for pass holders, who pick up their tickets the day before each screening, but those are allocated differently, so there are plenty of tickets for people who just want to come and buy tickets for individual films. In fact, people can come up and purchase tickets anytime." Even when Slamdance declares a film sold out, it doesn't mean getting tickets is impossible. "We always have tickets that were reserved for press outlets who, for some reason or another, can't make it to the screenings," Kaufmann said. "So, our press department will release those tickets to us." The best way to get those late releases is to get into the standby line. "We tell people to start lining up in the stand-by line about 30 minutes before the film is supposed to start," Kaufmann said. "We usually are able to get everyone who is in standby into the screening." Sundance tickets While some Sundance screenings may be sold out, tickets are also available, es- Continued from A-1 Support role envisioned "Without that we don't have a role," Hilder said. The new Round Valley leash ordinance went into effect Jan. 8. Most of it falls within the city's limits, including the portion that was designated as off-leash. However, small parcels are within the county's jurisdiction. Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter said while his officers are not equipped to pick up animals, they will continue to support Animal Control's efforts and will be available to respond to those complaints in whatever capacity the city deems necessary. "Our primary function is not animal control, it is the health, safety and welfare of the community. We have plenty of other things going on and to worry about," Carpenter said. "But we will continue to support them." Carpenter said he has not had an opportunity to meet with county officials since their discussion last week, adding that there may be some miscommunication at this point about everyone's role moving forward. When the city designated it as offleash, it prompted county officials to take a closer look at the discrepancies between each entities' ordinances. The county and the city have historically enacted their own ordinances within their jurisdictions and the county has provided resources for enforcement. However, the ordinances contain several ambiguities, Hilder said. You had me at scalp massage. It's the little things. At Ooh La La, your visit isn't finished until you look fantastic--and feel that way, too. So we sweat the details from style, to shape, to shade. And we don't just wash your hair. We treat your scalp to its own little moment of Zen. (Want your nails done? Bet you also get a hand massage.) (435) 655-2680 11811 Sidewinder Dr., Park City, UT 84060 www.OohLaLaHairParkCity.com JAKE SHANE/PARK RECORD Adam Kaufmann, Slamdance ticket manager, hands festival-goers some tickets at the Treasure Mountain Inn ticket office. pecially when you know where to look, according to Linda Pfafflin, the festival's associate director of ticketing and customer service. One way is to check online by visiting he festival website, www2.sundance.org/ availability/all, where festival goers can type in the title of the film they want to see to check if tickets are available. Also, a limited number of day-of-show tickets are available each day of the festival starting at 8 a.m. at the main box offices, Pfafflin said. Another option is the waitlist. "For those who love to be spontaneous, we offer waitlist tickets through our eWaitlist app," Pfafflin said. "[They can] simply sign up for the app, request a waitlist queue number two hours before the screening, be in line at least 30 minutes prior to showtime and if seats are available waitlisters get in." Slamdance will wind up its 2016 film festival at Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main St., on Thursday, Jan. 28. For more information, visit www.slamdance.com. Sundance will run through Sunday, Jan. 31 in various venues in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and the Sundance Resort. For more information, visit www. sundance.org. "We don't define what an off-leash area is and we don't differentiate between open spaces and fenced in areas," Hilder said. "But until we had this discussion I don't think we recognized things that are ambiguous. It's not creating an issue, but we are recognizing that there are some gaps that we need to fill." While both jurisdictions regulate conduct for off-leash areas, neither contains information beyond it, according to a memo Hilder sent to council members. "The county attorney's suggestion is that as a minimal first step, agreed descriptions and definitions be enacted by all involved entities," the memo stated. "We suggest at least a distinction between dog parks, such as Quinn's, Willow Creek and, on a larger scale, Runa-Muck and open areas." Clay Coleman, Animal Control administrator, said moving forward he will be telling his officers to "take a step back" to make sure that he is "not overstepping his bounds." Coleman was hired in November. "We will treat that area as off-leash unless we have a phone call asking me to come in and investigate it," Coleman said. "We will not have any officers walking the trail or anything like that. I'm respecting the MOU (memorandum of understanding) and if Park City calls me and says, ‘we need your help,' we will come running. Otherwise it is basically in Park City's hands." Since Jan. 8, Coleman said he has received several complaints about "dogs and dog waste everywhere" in Round Valley, adding that there has been one verifiable dog bite and rumors of several others. "We just have to take it with a grain of salt," Coleman said. "But we will let the dust settle and we are going to readjust to this. I've asked my officers to just push education over punishment when they are called or see something." 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