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No portion may be reproduced in any form without written consent of the managing editor or publisher. The Park Record (USPS 378-730) (ISSN 0745-9483) is published twice weekly by Wasatch Mountain News Media Co., 1670 Bonanza Drive, Park City, UT 84060. Periodicals postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, 84199-9655 and at additional mailing offices. Continued from A-1 Prices outlined Park Avenue corridor. The document also provides detailed information about qualifications of potential buyers, including the restriction on incomes. Based on the area median income in 2016, a household income must have ranged between $47,221 and $78,720 to qualify as a buyer. The range will be updated shortly as the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development releases median incomes for 2017. The income range is set through a formula based on the median income in Summit County. The median income typically does not change dramatically on a year-overyear basis. Park City leaders are pursuing a program involving work force or otherwise restricted housing, such as units for senior citizens, identifying housing as one of the priorities of the City Hall work plan. Much of the work force has been priced out of Park City’s resortdriven real estate market. Leaders have long said the availability of housing for rank-and-file workers has wide-ranging benefits like ensuring socioeconomic diversity inside the Park City limits and reducing commuter traffic. “They recognized the need . . . People at those income levels really have no choice,” said Scott Loomis, the executive director of Mountainlands Community Housing Trust. The not-for-profit organization is not involved in the City Hall project but has developed work force or other sorts of restricted housing in Park City and Summit County. Loomis said the project on Park Avenue will likely at- Continued from A-1 Workers forced out Joe Wrona, the attorney representing several homeowners on the issue, said he is “not surprised at all that the developer has been breaking the law” while, at the same time, appearing in front of the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission and holding itself out as “an innocent-and-law abiding developer.” “This has been going on all winter and we have reason to believe it was occurring last winter. This is the most glaring example of a planning department and commission blinding itself to the reality of the applicants’ disingenuous nature and the Postmaster: Send address changes to The Park Record, P.O. Box 3688, Park City, UT 84060. Entered as secondclass matter, May 25, 1977, at the Post Office in Park City, Utah, 84060 under the Act of March 3, 1897. Subscription rates are: $48 within Summit County, $72 outside of Summit County, Utah. Subscriptions are transferable: $5 cancellation fee. Phone: 435-649-9014 Fax: 435-649-4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday. Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs A t t h e H i s t o r i c Vi l l a T h e a t r e tract “multiple applicants” for each of the units. “I think they’ve created space that really works,” Loomis said, anticipating longtime members of the work force will submit paperwork as potential buyers. The project has been seen as desirable since the early concepts were publicized. The supporters see the location as one of the top draws. It is within easy walking distance to City Park, the Park City Library and Main Street. It is also located along a bus route. The land is set in a heavily developed neighborhood, a location that likely influenced an approval process that was not as difficult as it would have been in other places. House sales in Old Town regularly soar above $1 million. The document outlining the project, meanwhile, provides other qualifications that will be important to potential buyers. At least one person in a household needs to work in the boundaries of the Park City School District. If the household is made of retirees, they must be longtime members of the community, it says. The owner of the house must live there, a restriction that is meant to ensure the residence is not put into the rental pool. City Hall will cap resales at 3 percent annually. The municipal government will also have the first right of refusal when a unit is put on the market. City Hall, meanwhile, says it will give preference to municipal workers and people described as “essential” members of the work force. Workers deemed essential include emergency responders, teachers and people in the medical field, according to the document. People seeking to buy a unit will be ranked by their tenure working within the boundaries of the School District. Officials anticipate publishing applications in the early summer followed by selections late in the summer. The document says sales are expected to close by the middle of the fall, allowing people to move in at that time. blatant unfeasibility and community insensitivity of any proposal that I have been involved with,” Wrona said. “It is outrageous that an owner of a property that is zone restricted to low impact uses is able to completely disregard not only the health and safety of the people who are being housed there, but the health and safety of surrounding neighborhoods. It has been a sham from the beginning.” In an interview with The Park Record on Tuesday, Pat Putt, Summit County Community Development Director, said any punitive action would have to come from the fire district. Putt emphasized that the county is appropriately addressing the situation. “Our focus is on curing the problem, not issuing a fine,” Putt said. “I think we have a clear solution and clear timeframe. We are having a meeting later today to talk with affected agencies. The next business day after the complaint, we went out there identified the problem and gave them a notice. We did exactly what they (residents) are asking of us.” Wed/Thurs/Fri, March 22-24, 2017 Committee will sport a roster from the area Group seated to guide recreation blueprints By Frances Moody The Park Record A plan that outlines locations for Park City’s future athletic buildings is one step closer to becoming reality. The Park City Council approved a resolution at a meeting last week that calls for the creation of a committee to guide the 60-page Mountain Facilities Recreation Master Plan. Ken Fisher, recreation manager for Park City Municipal, said members of the committee will represent the three entities that collaborated for the 60page proposal: the municipal government, Snyderville Basin Recreation District and Park City School District. “They would prioritize and discuss which facility each entity is interested in developing and address any issues with existing local agreements we have,” Fisher said. “They would also develop new agreements as facilities are developed. The last thing they would do is strategize potential funding mechanisms in a unified manner.” The city and the recreation and school districts have control of various recreation facilities throughout Park City. For example, the city controls the Municipal Athletic and Recreation Center, while the recreation district is in charge of the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse. The need for more athletic facilities controlled by the partners is becoming more apparent as the town’s population grows, which is why the plan was formed. A project that began in spring 2016 when the three groups realized the necessity to thoroughly study potential locations and costs for recreation buildings, the plan proposes what facilities should be built at 10 sites in Park City. For instance, it suggests City Park needs a community center, playground and splash pad. It also estimates the costs for the town’s needed amenities. In addition to suggesting putting $38.8 million into a Silver Creek aquatics center, the plan recommends using $26 million to expand the ice arena at Quinn’s Junction. Fisher said the plan’s designers went through a thorough process before suggesting how tens of millions of dollars could be used to build fieldhouses and swimming pools. Landmark Design, the firm commissioned to create the plan, completed four studies before drawing up the proposal. One study included a recreation facilities survey Park City residents filled out. Another one looked at other cities’ uses of athletic buildings. In November, a draft for the plan became available online at www.recfacilitiesmp.org and a public comment period on the proposal took place in December. Fisher said the partners and the soonto-be formed committee will continue to be detailed about the plan. “They are already thinking about outlining the next steps, but it’s important to remember the plan itself is a longrange, 20-year-plus plan,” he said. Discussion on forming the committee will take place March 30 at the Marsac Building. “We’ll be having a study session with the recreation advisory board that will begin discussions on the implementation of the master plan,” Fisher said. Car burglars strike a Basin neighborhood Items were recovered strewn across the road The Summit County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents to be diligent in locking their vehicles after deputies responded to eight separate incidents where vehicles were burglarized in a Snyderville Basin neighborhood on Monday. According to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, unknown suspects entered several unlocked vehicles in the Jeremy Ranch neighborhood. The doors were left open on many of the vehicles and some stolen items were Continued from A-1 Free rides considered demand in and around Main Street and Kimball Junction, improve air quality, eliminate barriers to transit access, and enhance the greater Park City experience and quality of life,” the documentation also says. The request for proposals has not found strewn across the road, the report states. Some of the victims’ credit cards were used at various Walmarts in the Salt Lake area. An investigation is ongoing. Earlier this month, deputies responded to at least seven separate incidents where a vehicle was reportedly accessed in the Silver Springs and Bear Hollow neighborhoods. However, in most of those cases, the vehicles were not damaged and nothing valuable was taken. Residents are encouraged to report any suspicious people or vehicles in their neighborhood to the Sheriff’s Office non-emergency dispatch at 435-6153600. Angelique McNaughton been widely publicized. It seems likely there will be keen interest by the area’s taxi and shuttle companies as City Hall moves forward. The transportation companies could eventually worry about competition from a service that is free and provides rides to some of the popular destinations in the Park City area. A service along Main Street could be especially worrisome to the companies since there is heavy business for them on the shopping, dining and entertainment strip. 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