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Show Wednesday, January 26, 2000 A-2 The Park Record City's turn: rec. vote is set SBSRD approved compromise, now City Council must decide whether to sign off by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF Months of sometimes tense negotiations over a recreation agreement could end on Thursday. The Park City Council is scheduled to vote on whether to approve a memorandum of understanding between the city and the Snvderville Basin Special Recreation District (SBSRD) to keep the two entities' youth-sports youth-sports programs together. The board of the SBSRD approved the deal last Thursday. The Park City Parks. Recreation and Beautification Advisory Board has also OK'd the agreement. agree-ment. Bob Johnston, director of the city's Leisure Services Department, predicts that the City Council will vote to enter into the agreement. "1 don't see any reason why they wouldn't approve it." Fest rides Continued from C-4 days before the beginning of the festival for training. Pearce, along with her sister Sarah Komarek who is theater operations manager for the festival, fes-tival, has been attending Sundance for sev en years from her Salt Lake home. She leads a team of three who staff the the- Deer Crest, for proposed GRAPHIC COURTESY OF DEER CREST ' This artist's rendition of the Ritz-Carlton Grand Lodge and Hotel at Deer Crest was submitted to ; the city in March 1999. Deer Crest now says the upscale hotelier might not operate the hotel Continued from A-1 "We don't have anything spe-! spe-! cific right now . . . We don't have ; anything in writing right now we can talk about." said Ritz-Carlton Ritz-Carlton spokeswoman Stephanie Piatt, adding, "We're interested in that whole region." She said the 2002 Winter Olympics are a draw for Ritz-Carlton. Ritz-Carlton. "We know the halo effects of the Olympics." she said. If Ritz-Carlton abandons its plans in Deer Crest, it has other opportunities in Utah. Five resorts - Park City Mountain Resort, Deer Valley Resort, The Canyons, Snowbasin and Solitude -- are either undergoing Don't like our email: TUe Soys Dog Gr Invlf e you before or 171 UevrttOer Owe fVojfecfor &ture oh We t wV Gty ftus roufe. Plenty 0$ Wet pruj. Johnston said. "1 don't see any surprises in this one." The meeting is scheduled for approximately 6 p.m., although the City Council is also scheduled to discuss the agreement at its work session, which begins at 4 p.m. Both are scheduled for the City Council's chambers at the Marsac Building. The agreement includes the following stipulations: The city will not charge the recreation district a 19 percent ov erhead on three youth sports -baseball, basketball and soccer -that attract Snvderville Basin youths. The charge, known as the 'Marsac overhead.' amounted to about $35,000 per year. The city wont charge the recreation district field-preparation costs. The citv will equallv schedule sched-ule Park City and SBSRD activities activi-ties on city fields. The citv will look for a wav on volunteer efforts aters. line up locals, and oversee the whole volunteer effort. It has become a 10-month job for Pearce who also works at the Sundance Institute during the summer helping with labs. "it's very rewarding." she said. "It's an opportunity to see films and meet people interested in film." The biggest problem the staff Ritz re-evaluating plans Grand Lodge and Hotel or planning major developments. Deer Crest has long touted a Ritz-Carlton as one of its signatures. signa-tures. The hotel site is located just east of the Snow Park Lodge parking lots. A funicular, a tram-like tram-like vehicle, was planned to join the parking lot and the hotel. The hotel, as it was being planned, included 102 rooms and another 92 condominiums. At its highest point, it was to be 10 stories. sto-ries. Deer Crest's residential neighborhood is now under development. The project straddles strad-dles the Park City-Wasatch County line. Part of Deer Crest, including the hotel site, was annexed into Park City after the city and the project's former editorials? Send us one of yours, editorparkrecord.com He WinJl woulA like 0 r o join Hei fter your (J Screening. to lower Racquet Club costs that are charged to the recreation district. dis-trict. In the meantime, the SBSRD will continue to pay those costs. If a cheaper way is found, the city will reimburse the recreation district. In turn, the SBSRD will allow city youths to participate in its programs. In the future, the SBSRD plans to offer more diverse activities than those offered by the city, such as roller hockey and ultimate frisbee. SBSRD chairman Rick Perry says the deal deserves to be approved by the city. "1 think it's a fair and equitable equi-table thing. Everybody wins." he said. "I think everyone's unanimous unani-mous that this will be a win." He adds: "1 think we're all hopeful they will pass it and life goes on." The city and the SBSRD seemed far from a resolution in 1999 when a former agreement was expiring. The negotiations, in fact, were close to disintegrating disintegrat-ing at one point, which would have meant the two split. encounters according to Pearce is making everyone happy. But this year she said the transportation, transporta-tion, lodging, and even the Utah winter seems to be accommodating. accommodat-ing. "The weather has been a plus this year." she concluded. "The snow is beautiful but it definitely definite-ly creates problems in terms of logistics." owners settled a lawsuit that centered cen-tered on access between the city and Deer Crest on Keetley Road. Former Deer Crest Managing Member David Luber told The Park Record in March 1999 that the hotel would offer amenities that surpass other hotels in the city. "It's a unique facility that does not currently exist in Park City," Luber said. The current discussions are focusing on whether the hotel site in Deer Crest can accommodate accommo-date a Ritz-Carjton. "The fact of the matter is we may not be able to fit the shoe. We're trying to figure that out. We dont know," Fetter said. (iv. "yo : , ?s , r i . run A SMOKE FREE PRIVATE CLUB KIR Festivals P.C. is trying to handle illegal signs and stickers by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF Those wanting to give their films some recognition are assaulting Old Town. Throughout the Main Street core, thousands of handbills and flyers have been stapled or pasted past-ed to virtually any available space on buildings and other easily accessed locations, such as trees, telephone poles and electrical elec-trical boxes. And some are not limiting their advertising to inanimate objects. A few films have had people - some in costumes -- on Main Street handing out promotional promo-tional material, while others have been driving vehicles covered cov-ered with propaganda. The situation has the city a tad peeved. Virtually all of the activity is forbidden under city code. "It's illegal. We get complaints com-plaints about it," Melissa Caffey, the city's special-events director, said. "All the filmmakers know it's illegal." Caffey also says the Sundance Film Festival is not a culprit. Movies in the festivals that have latched onto Sundance, Caffey said, are more apt to display their signs illegally. "They're not Sundance signs. It's every other festival." Caffey said. "All of that is in violation of our code." The films, she said, are trying to compensate for the city not allowing posters to be placed downtown. "They were all told that they couldn't do the posters . . . They decided to do something different differ-ent than the posters and that's what you're seeing on Main Street." Caffey said. The city mobilized its Public Works Department to try to Redford not resting Continued from A-1 its beginnings and where it was headed. Despite a few sound system sys-tem glitches, which muffled some of Redford's words, his message was clear: "I'd really just like to spend the time talking directly to the filmmakers," he said. He spoke of the common ground he shares with the filmmakers and his understanding of the frustration frustra-tion and anxiety involved in the process. "I don't come to this totally from the outside. I have my own experience to share," Redford said. He went on to describe his own ups and downs in the film industry to the audience of filmmakers. Jordanelle plan waits for OK Continued from A-1 will make a huge mistake. I think 15 years down the road we re going to say, 'why did we let this happen." There were also concerns about water allocation. All the water in the Provo River drainage is allocated to other users. Dan Matthews of the Jordanelle Special Services District acknowledged that there is no unallocated water, but said that doesnt mean there isnt water available to support development. devel-opment. "If you want to use the water, you buy it or lease it from somebody some-body who already has it," said GRILL action at The THE BENEFIT OF fTS MEMRERS -V .(6imerjU) d plenty of T-OTy J. action at The littering Main Street i i PAY" TO THIS BLOCK ,;, SAX. Marking n A M - dh;i ROGER GLAZIER PARK RECORD Jeff Lloyd of the Public Works Department tries to remove a promo sticker from a sign on Main Street. Many films are illegally ille-gally displaying advertisements in the Main Street core. clean up Main Street. Assistant Public Works Director John Lind said public-works crews have been on Main Street collecting col-lecting handbills and signs. "It seems like this year, as opposed to other years, there's smaller material." Lind said. He said the duty has not taxed the department, though. Crews were using razor With a reputation as an actor and filmmaker. Redford is not ojie to sit back and rest on his laurels. Currently, he is in the post-production stages of his latest lat-est film "The Legend of Bagger Vance." The film stars Matt Damon and Will Smith. Redford described the festival's festi-val's start in 1986 as a small operation. oper-ation. "We were literally hawking films in the street in Park City." Redford recalled. "There's been a pretty great arc from that point to now," he added. He credited co-directors Nicole Guillemet and Geoffrey Gilmore and their respective staffs for a great deal of the success Sundance has achieved. "Try not to get sucked into the Matthews. But the plan was not without its supporters. "What you see is a mixed-use development. The 3,002 number was not picked out of the air. It was a figure that experts determined deter-mined that this land could comfortably com-fortably handle," said Park City attorney Joe Tesch. "No one that has property up there wants to see development that doesnt keep the area as pristine as it is now." Later, Tuttle asked Mickelsen if the county had looked at the master plans for the surrounding areas, known as Areas A and C, when considering consider-ing Area B's plan. Youll he in ocA GnnnnA Dog Grffl Vms Est- D03 Grill is leUer oC ScrvtKj Dinner 7 MtgUVs Week ' i ' T' Li i J - Vf - it blades to remove some of the material, but have since found other methods, such as chemicals. chemi-cals. City signs. Lind said, might be damaged while stickers are removed. "We will have problems getting get-ting it off signs and things because it might pull off the facing," fac-ing," he said. on laurels hype, into the 'buzz,'" warned Redford. "A lot of the so called buzz that the media feed on. isnt." Although he stressed that one of the goals of the festival is to provide an opportunity for filmmakers film-makers to make connections that may lead to production, the overall over-all theme of Redford's speech centered around maintaining the independent spirit. "You just hold your own. Keep cool," he said. Redford circulated throughout through-out the room, talking to filmmakers filmmak-ers - answering questions and sharing experiences. As one young filmmaker said after chatting chat-ting with Redford, "Now I can go. home." After Mickelsen responded that just Area B was considered, McMullen asked "wouldn't the greater wisdom be to look all the areas to together?" Tuttie then interjected that a county-wide plan was needed. "I think it's a great idea, but it's money," Mickelsen said, answering McMulIen's question. "We dont have the money to develop all the master plans at the same time." 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