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Show Page A12 Thursday, November 4, 1993 The Park Record D Section A AnnaH Bit (Ee... t -. kff?&: iWtMWM1 ItY TO.l CLY1IK 'if Iff if to f5 4 4 lie It w til lit to' i3 'V. 1 I Mi Leslie Coburn crs Associate Broker Specializing in premium Park City and Deer Valley homes and condominiums, Leslie offers you attentive, top-quality service and the benefit of her 1 4 years of real estate experience. , f t 1 . r . , ff'fl f1 p7""""" TiT f. '-., --r- - 1 v FABULOUS VIEWS AND THE GOLF COURSE TOO! Beautiful 4 bdrm. home with vaulted ceilings and heavy logs. 2 brick fireplaces, great open floor plan with top quality. $770,000 EUROPEAN ELEGANCE IN AMERICAN FLAG An absolutely gorgeous home offered furnished. Four unique bedroom suites, chef's delight kitchen, formal living room with adjacent bar, even an elevator. Call for exclusive showing. AMERICAN FLAG A unique family home or corporate retreat with two master suites, two guest suites, spa room and more. Complete with top of the line fixtures and appliances. Ski-in, ski-out. 1 . t iinn-'a. RUSTIC ELEGANCE Lovely new home of approx. 5,300 sq. ft. nestled in the foothills of Park City. Great room design includes grand rock fireplace, full bar, formal dining , Dillards area and hot tub adjoining kitchen and private master upstairs. BRIAN'S LODGE Beautiful custom home in Solamere with unsurpassed views. Approximately 5,000 sqaure feet. Offers a large living area, private master with stone fireplace and double shower. 4 additional bedroom suites on 34 acre. Offered furnished. $959,000 QUIET CUL-DE-SAC One of Park City's most prestigious locations. Over 4,100 sq. ft. includes great room, large master suite, 3 bedrooms, family room and exercise room, all with wonderful views of golf course and slopes. $625,000 WALESAWAY RANCH - FOR SALE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS! Walesaway Ranch in lovely White Pine Canyon is approximately 32 acres with 2 ponds, streams, a spring, lovely forests, barns and a charming cottage. Call for appointment. $3,000,000 ii I ..,0 ( u i III 11 11 fl FABULOUS NEW HOME IN RISNER RIDGE This home has it all! New landscaping and over 5,300 sq. ft. of top of the line quality. 5 bdrm., family room. Great views and on the golf course. Ready to move into. $699,000 SKI TO YOUR DOOR IN EVERGREEN Beautiful new home just over 5,400 sq. ft. with two master suites and 3 additional suites. Great room offers lovely views framed by evergreens. Call for fact sheet. $1,495,000 1 MEADOW WOOD Beautiful home of stone and glass, over 5,000 square feet, split pine ceilings, stone fireplace, private study, situated on 2.5 acres, lovely master suite with his and hers closets and beautifully appointed baths. 4 additional bedrooms each with private bath. Double deep two car garage. $699,000 IJVISUCM)LCOTT (801) 649-1884 or (801) 649-7153 . EAGLE'S NEST Private and secluded with exquisite views and interior. 6,800 sq. ft. of new construction. Includes formal dining, living, huge master suiet and even an indoor pool. $1,495,000. BEST VIEWS IN PARK CITY Fabulous view lot in the best subdivision for the best price. Buy now and start building the house of your dreams on the best lot in Park City. $179,500 f"' Hi- .3. ?4 fin 'ft in -.A- 91: i 5 'lju. til Birth of a yard car In a recent public opinion poll taken in conjunction with the local election (remember that?) I was surprised to see that 70 percent of the respondents said they favored putting some cap on the number of building permits issued. I figure that those 70 percent are all realtors, and like the idea of pushing the prices even higher by creating an artificial shortage of supply. The other 30 percent surprised me even more. They weren't willing to settle for a cap on new growth. A full 30 percent of our friends and neighbors thought the Laguna Beach wildfire, that destroyed several hundred houses, was a growth management tool "worth looking into." When you look at the size of the typical house being built in Park City, I guess it's not too surprising that the owners tend to look at things through the Reagan-era "supply side" theory. They want to regulate things by tightening the supply. If you have a S600.000 mortgage, there is nothing that warms the heart like wildly inflating house prices and a tightened supply. Some of us, of course, look at things on the demand side, and think we can control growth in Park City by kicking the bottom out of the market just as easily as putting a lid on the supply of new housing. There was a time in the not too distant past when only a few eccentrics, Eskimos, and ski bums were interested in living here. There were some real hardships associated with life in Park City (and I'm not talking about being unable to "get reservations at Deer Valley during the Christmas week). Gradually, the City got its act together, to a point that snow was regularly plowed from the streets, and water flowed from the faucet every time the tap was opened. There was an investment in the schools and other services. Then, having created a virtual paradise, and having advertised it all around the world, a whole lot of people moved in. Those same people are now saying that paradise will be lost if more people just like them move to town, and that we have to stop it. To avoid Paradise Lost, we are looking at Paradise Rauoncd. We could probably address the problem through reduced services. If it took three days to get plowed out of the back end of Park Meadows, the appeal of housing there might fade a little. If kids had to travel to school by dog sled because the buses couldn't navigate the streets all winter, parents would either get a snow cat to replace the Range Rover, or maybe be a litdc less enthusiastic about telling friends to move to Park City where the living is easy. And don't forget the positive impact of a few rusted out old cars in the front yards. Few things 3 communicate a community's resistance to change beuer liian a coiiecuon of rusting pickups in the yard. It has worked pretty well in my neighborhood through the years; there's no reason that it wouldn't work in yours. So here is a rare opportunity. A special deal just for you. I have an old pickup that is going into forced retirement It's only 20 years old, but there is enough rust and body cancer for a truck twice that age. It's a wonderfully offensive color. When we bought the truck, it was about tne same snaue ui ycuuw as highway signs. Through the years, though, it has gradually faded and rusted to a shade that can only be described as reminiscent of a really bad cold. So, for a liort time only, this wonderful old CMC could be delivered to your house, and installed in the yard at a location of your choosing for the modest sum of $500. The truck still runs. In fact, the engine and transmission are in pretty good shape. It might be worth pulling the engine and setting it on the ground next to the truck (at an extra cost). It's just that the body and the frame are not really connected to each other any more. If you were driving along and hit the brakes hard, I have every reason to believe that the frame would stop, but the body would just keep on going when the baling vvire broke. 'That's why we keep the brakes a little mushy," the mechanic who works on it told me. But the important thing is that it still runs well enough to drive it right to your site, where it can be artistically placed on your lot For a short time, as an added bonus at no extra cost, I can deliver the truck to you and smash the windshield (well, finish it off it's already got a few cracks). In a matter of a few weeks, there will be vermin living in the seat and under the hood, and nighdy cat fights underneath it. Who needs Nintendo? You could pay upwards of $200,000 to protect your view across that vacant lot next door, plus the burdensome property taxes year after year. Or, you can gain effective control over the lot for a modest S500 by buying my old truck and parking it on the side of your house. Ornamental lighting is extra, and may require a building permit This being Park City, there are a million regulations about that kind of thing, but, this being the United States, you have certain First Amendment Rights that are only partially compromised by living in Park City. If you have the truck installed in the yard by a recognized artist, it becomes a piece of sculpture, not a 20-year-old GMC up on blocks. Stick a religious icon on the dash board, and a couple of Ross Perot bumper stickers on back, and even the Park City taste police would be hard pressed to censor your artistic display. But other people, less appreciative of the fine arts, would drive by, look at the vacant lot, and decide that it was pretty nice a great place to build a trophy house except that they wouldn't want to live next door to somebody who kept an old truck up on blocks in the front yard. I can hear the skeptics now, asking if an old truck in the front yard is such a guaranteed regulator on growth, how come I'm willing to part with one for a mere $500. weii, u s a complicated process, and you have to keep things in balance. You see, we need one more subscriber to the Salt Lake Tribune before we can get home delivery in my neighborhood. So I'm willing to part with the old GMC rather than add it to the fleet of yard cars here on the farm. And besides, I still have the '49 Ford dump truck out front to keep a lid on things,; . ; ;::.Vv-; ., , v. . The living dead by Jim Powell I had just picked up my Park Record at the Post Office after leaving my car to have my slicks exchanged for snow treads. The sky was blue, the air ensp; what better thing to do than go outside, sit on a rock in the sun and read the Record. Alas, no convenient rock-just a damp grassy mound or a grundgy concrete curb overlooking a dismal parking lot. Across Keams Boulevard loomed the Park City Cemetery with gates invitingly open. I had an hour to kill; why not do it in the cemetery? I was able to cross the highway unharmed, and I strolled revcrendy up the newly refurbished path. Unfortunately, no family had thought to provide a bench for graveside contemplation. Nor was there a bench, of any sort, in sight. It didn't seem right to plunk down on some anonymous tombstone, although the memorialized could hardly protest Rather than read today's Record, I would read the Park City record as inscribed here in marble and granite. What might have seemed a morbid occupation became one of discovery. I began to get the impression that many survivors fully expected to be reunited. It was their comfort to believe that burial was just a painful, but not really final, aspect of life. Can a person that has loved and been loved completely cease to exist? The plots are grouped and bordered by concrete curbs. These groups must Guet Editorial provide for a family to have its earthly remains in one location. Strolling around, looking at the names and dates, I began to visualize the former residents in their time of sorrow. Infants who had lived but a few days, soldiers who died in various wars, veterans who wanted to be remembered by their service outfit, couples who were married in the temple or a spouse identified with an image of his favorite sport and many other variations of memorial. If a mortal census were taken, one could probably determine when the flu epidemic hit Park City in the early part of the century or other bits of history such as fire or mine disaster. A familiar name on a stone caught my eye just as I was leaving; it couldn't be; I had just talked with him a few weeks ago. It was there right next to that of his departed wife. Then I realized her stone had entry and exit dates, his only entry. What a relief! The old codger was still with us; he just had things figured out to his satisfaction. He had dealt with mortality. Inspection showed this to be the case in several plots. Our cemetery serves the living as well as the dead. I hadn't killed an hour in the cemetery. 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