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Show r 1'; Inside... I ....... .,.-.-'? j Volume Five Highway 224 Extension It's SMI Remember the extension of State Road 224? That was the project that was supposed to reroute traffic away from Park Avenue onto a bypass running along the east side of City Park into Deer Valley. Remember it was going to bestartedinl981? Well forget it. The project is still on, but it seems to have been moved to the back burner. The target date now is 1983. "We're looking now at the spring of 1983 for construction," project engineer Mike Roshek said Friday. "We might be able to do it sooner, but that would require a major shift in priorities. ' ' Construction Clamor Anoise Locals The crow of the rooster is being replaced by the clamor of the hammer, and some Park City residents aren't quite up for it. Trying to make the most of the short construction season, some local contractors con-tractors have been burning the candle at both ends. And, according to Park City Police Chief Michael Crowley, the racket has generated a number of complaints. com-plaints. "Some of these construction sites are actually pouring concrete at 4 a.m.," Crowley told the City Council Thursday. Thurs-day. "And they are hammering, etc., until 11 o'clock at night ... We have to somehow control this, because it's getting get-ting out of hand." Crowley said later that the police department is getting an average of 10 to 15 calls per week with complaints about the noise. He noted that different construction trades seem to make different dif-ferent noises at different times. "I don't know if concrete workers are earlier risers than carpenters, but they seem to be taking advantage of us on different ends of the spectrum." Gene Webb, a supervisor on the Shadow Ridge project near the Park City Resort, acknowledged that early-morning early-morning starts are sometimes scheduled to pour large quantities of concrete. "We do start at 5 a.m. on occasion," he said. "But it's only one day every three weeks that we do that." Webb explained that concrete tends to dehydrate and set up if poured during the heat of the day in midsummer. Nevertheless, Crowley is thinking about proposing noise limits during certain cer-tain hours. "The times I think would be feasible are 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., and set the acceptable decibel level maybe at 60." But rather than set an arbitrary Ticket Office Expansion Planned for Park Parking was the focal point at last Wednesday night's Planning Commission Com-mission meeting as plans were revealed for the Park City Village phase I project at the ski resort complex. com-plex. As proposed earlier this year by developer Jack Davis, the Park City Village project would consist of 980 residential units, 65,000 square feet of commercial space, underground parking for 2,700 cars, and a variety of facilities that could include an outdoor amphitheatre and a year-round skating rink. The project would be phased over 12 years,"and if approved, construction would begin in 1981. At last week's meeting, however, engineer. Van Martin of J.J. Johnson Associates commented that construction construc-tion on phase one would commence immediately if approval was given. Phase one would consist of enlarging the present ticket office at the resort plaza to make room for expanded administration ad-ministration offices, ski lockers, a permanent Kinderhaus area to replace the trailer now being used, and to add condominium units and commercial space. Martin explained that the addition ad-dition would be made to the west and north of the existing building, and would be of the same height, architec- age 8 A variety of unusual gift and kitchenware items can be found in Main Street's newest shop, The Tuck Box. !; ' K- 1 1 " "TIN. : rATiiUn Down the Road Roshek, an employee of the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), said one of the reasons for the delay is that the plans have been changed. Instead of two lanes in Park City, the road will have four. The width of the right-of-way is to remain the same, but more of it is to be paved. "Also, the access points will be more defined,' Roshek continued. "As far as traffic control, this is a benefit, and it helps us with our drainage." Beside changing the access points into in-to private projects such as the Depot, the new plan also is taking a different approach to Deer Valley. standard, he wants to study the impact that such restrictions might have. "I want to check it out to be certain that is not an unrealistic standard." With a little encouragement from The Newspaper, Crowley began his study Tuesday by dusting off the city's existing noise ordinance and replacing the batteries in a little-used decibel meter. "A noise measured . . . from any source more than 65 decibels on the A weighing scale ... is hereby declared to be excessive and unusually loud and is unlawful," announces Section 3C of the ordinance. If the source of the noise is a public-right-of-way, the measurement is to be taken from 25 feet away. If the source is on private property or on public property proper-ty other than rights-of-way. the measurement is to be taken from the property line. Armed with this vital information and with the newly-revived dbA meter. Crowley and a Newspaper reporter ventured out Tuesday to find out just what was legal and what was not. The first stop was the Newspaper office, of-fice, where the typewriters were typically silent, but there was the usual babble of voices, radios and tape players. Among the levels recorded were these: Brenda Lee on tape, in one of her quieter moments, with the amplifier volume set at "2", 65 decibels, from about 10 feet away. Typical conversation among typical Newspaper employees, 65 to 70 decibels, measured from the immediate im-mediate vicinity. Laugh of Newspaper Editor Bettina Moench. 72 decibels, measured from the immediate vicinity. Clamor to 3 ture and construction materials. For those familiar with the present ticket office, the gully to the nor'h would be replaced with three floors of useable space, including the new Kinderhaus, Kin-derhaus, and expanded quarters for the ski school, which resort officials said would be expanded by about 60 instructors instruc-tors next season. The first floor would contain expanded ticket office space, more ski school area, and commercial and retail space. The second floor would have 10 one-bedroom hotel-like ' F T ip I x ' ''' ''' '. ' ' ; : p V' ' " j 1 L" J i:i M ;l sfl I Thursday, July 24, 1980 "In that situation, we will actually swing the highway up least) into Deer Valley with Marsac coming in on a T intersection," in-tersection," he explained. Also under scrutiny is a plan to link the new highway with a road cutting through Prospector Square. The road, known tentatively as Bonanza Drive, would be linked with the new highway northeast of City Park, and would cut through Prospector Square, meeting State Road 248 opposite the Monitor Drive intersection. According to Park City Planning Director Bill Ligety, Bonanza Drive would be a benefit both to private property owners in the area and to the local residents. "It seems that something like that would be really needed, and would take a lot of pressure off the Holiday Inn corner." The state and the city are trying to decide how to handle the Bonanza Drive-State Road 224 intersection. That was one of the topics discussed Friday in a meeting between Roshek and Planner Plan-ner Van Martin of J.J. Johnson and Associates. Martin was representing the interests both of the city and of the Royal Street Land Company, which owns property in the vicinity of the proposed intersection. Ultimately, plans call for State Road 224 to be four lanes ail the way from Kimball Junction into Park City. The condominiums with an elevator and stairs, and the third floor would contain an additional 10 units. The plans also include a 25-foot wide walking area through the commercialretail mall space on the first floor, and would extend ex-tend east to the parking lot. Martin noted that the gravel path to the north of the existing mall shops on the plaza is used extensively by skiers, headed to their lockers or to the ticket windows, and the resort felt it would be better to include the walking mall to facilitate Lmm Page ll Round two in the men's Softball league began last week, and the Woodhaus is on top. highway would follow Park Avenue as far as the present intersection of Snow Country Drive, then turn east past the Snow Country condominiums before heading south past City Park and the Depot project. Roshek predicted that the volume of the traffic at the Park Avenue-State Road 224 intersection eventually would mean the installation of the city's first traffic signal. He pointed out that the proposed Park City Village project would add to the traffic congestion in that area. Also under discussion at the present time is a proposed underpass for the bike path planned in conjunction with the highway. In spite of the delay on the highway realignment within the city limits,' Roshek said this stretch still would be finished before the Kimball Junction-Park Junction-Park City portion. He explained that the two projects receive funding from different sources, and that no funds have been allocated for the longer stretch except $50,000 for preliminary engineei ing. He said public input on the new highway high-way plans wojM be encouraged. "We'll probablyfiave one more public hearing once we've got the specific design features firmed up. Koshek said that hearing is probably at least a year away. It's 10 o'clock... Do Know Where Your As I walk up Main Street, I wonder what the hell's happened to the 10 o'clock whistle? The siren that blasted every night with the late evening news has become a familiar part of Park City living. Like the sound of crickets chirping in the twilight, it took a while before anyone noticed that it no longer was around. The Newspaper discovered it wasn't so easy to find out what the problem is with the suddenly-dormant whistle. In fact, it's a pretty neat trick discovering discover-ing just who, if anyone, presides over the city's nighttime ritual. No one seems to know! Former city manager Wayne Matthews Mat-thews told us it's a simple matter of going into the garage next to City Hall, where the whistle mechanism is located, and setting the timer on the clock. (Okay. Move forward five spaces to City Hall.) City Hall secretaries told us the clock is properly timed and primed to go off. The problem, they said, is in Coalville, where the siren is triggered to go off by the Summit County dispatcher. the traffic from that end. Monte Gibson, developer of the proposed Cornice Hotel at the resort, complained that Davis' walkway design would divert traffic to the other end of the plaza, but his comments were rebuked as unjustified. Commissioner Burnis Watts wondered won-dered why phase one was being reviewed without the total project, and Martin answered that the resort was in dire need of the additional space, and couldn't wait for overall approval. He Weather... Park City, Utah tfH s K ' A few. . 4r I (I V11 Something to ride home about. (See page 12) Possibly, they guess, some kind of electronics elec-tronics problem developed after the county shifted into new facilities at the Coalville Courthouse. (Move forward six spaces to Summit County l Whoa! Coalville has notlfing to do with any daily siren, according to County Coun-ty Sheriff Ron Robinson. The Summit County dispatcher services fire alarms sent in from the Park City vicinity. When that happens, two alerts are sent out. One is a private alert to Park City fire-fighters in their homes; the second triggers the siren at City Hall. That, said Robinson, is the only instance when the county sets off the siren at.City Hall. (And the county's alarm system hasn't gone on the blink. A dispatcher told us the last fire in Park City a few weeks back triggered the city siren with no problems.) Better check with your city fire department, said Coalville. ( Move back seven spaces to the f irehouse. ) Nope, said volunteer fire-fighter Bob Burns, the department has never, to his knowledge, timed that siren to go off. "Frankly, we don't need it anyway," City Resort added that even if the entire Park City Village project was not approved, phase one could stand alone. Watts said e wanted a definitive answer from the developers and the resort as to the total impact of the whole project and its timetable, so that phases were not presented piecemeal. He asked what the ultimate growth of the resort would be, so that adequate parking would be included in the total project. Craig Johnson of Park City Ski Corporation Cor-poration commented that within 10 years, the resort expects to be able to accommodate 18,000 people per day. Commissioner Greg Lawson registered concern that Park City is not prepared to accommodate that number of daily skiers, and said traffic and parking studies would have to be performed before approval was given of the total project. Lawson 's fears were not allayed by Davis' description of the parking plans, since there were questions as to the total parking area available, for resort use. "In my opinion at this point, before we approve anything, we have to come to grips with the problems of the whole project," Lawson said. "I have no particular par-ticular problems with phase one, but I want to be sure the whole project has sufficient parking." At the close of the discussion, Monte Mostly fair through the weekend with continued hot weather. High temperatures tem-peratures will be in the 80s, with lows in the upper 50s. 25$ Number Forty-Five You Whistle Is? Burns said. "It just attracts people to the scene of a fire." (Go back four spaces to square one. ) Fire Chief Paul Kofford is recovering from a heart attack and, as he told us, a silent whistle is the least of his problems right now. Acting city manager Ric Jentzch was unavailable for comment. Mayor Jack Green doesn't know how the siren works. (Forfeit all winnings. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.) There's only one conclusion. No one in the county ever triggered the siren for daily alarms. And no one in the city ever did so. Therefore, the 10 o'clock whistle has never really sounded. It's a case of mass hallucination, induced perhaps by the wind whispering down the pines. Or maybe it's rats. The Newspaper will keep it's nose to the ground in search of the answer to a modern-day mystery that is worthy of film treatment by Schick-Sunn Classic. Until then, do not ask for whom the bell tolls. We dunno. Gibson asked the commission for a few minutes to further discuss the parking situation. He noted that the resort recently revealed plans for two new chairlifts to be constructed nextum-mer, nextum-mer, and that a lift currently is eing readied for use this season. Fre'pmiited out that the resort has not been before the Planning Commission to discuss their new lifts, or the parking available to accommidate the increased number of skiers. He also suggested the resort complex be annexed into Park City, since it currently is county land and not within the city limits. He said the city should derive the major benefits of the taxes generated, since the resort impacts im-pacts the city more than the county. He further stated that the resort was issued a building permit last year to expand their locker room. But offices also were expanded, he said, and no additional ad-ditional parking was provided. He told the commission that all developers should have to adhere to the requirements of the Land Management Code, including the resort. Discussion of the Park City Village phase one is expected to continue at the Planning Commission's next regulaly scheduled meeting July 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Prospector Square Conference Center. II ' ifbi- i f v. 0 |