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Show A-20 The Park Record Meeting and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, February 10-13, 2018 More dogs on Main By Tom Clyde TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM BASIN OPEN SPACE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (BOSAC) MEETING NOTICE Public notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Open Space Advisory Committee will meet in a regularly scheduled meeting at the time and location specificed below: DATE: Thursday, February 15, 2018 TIME: 8:30 AM LOCATION:BASIN RECREATION ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE 5715 TRAILSIDE DRIVE, PARK CITY, UT 84098 AGENDA 8:30 AM EXECUTIVE SESSION – Discussion of possible property acquisitions 10:15 AM Overview of Basin Recreation’s current open space portfolio (Jess Kirby) 9:15 AM Commence public meeting 10:30 AM Adjourn 9:20 AM Public comment 9:25 AM Review/approval of last meeting minutes 9:30 AM Overview of Snyderville Basin General Plan (Pat Putt, Peter Barnes) Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations during this meeting should notify Annette Singleton (435) 336-3025, 615-3025, 783-4351 ext. 3025 prior to the meeting. SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING AGENDA February 12, 2018 ** District Office** 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. OATH OF OFFICE – Jan Wilking and Steve Joyce III. CONSENT AGENDA A. Approval of Board Meeting Minutes for January 22, 2018 B. Escrow Fund Reduction Approval PCFD Fleet Services Building – Retain 8 percent C. Final Project Approval PCFD Fleet Services Building IV. PUBLIC INPUT V. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES – Bills in the Amount of $1,492,089.89 Including SCWRF Project Pay Request #22 for $1,042,747.77 VI. SERVICE AWARDS – Kimberly Dudley 10 years VII. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS A. Discovery – 129.33 REs B. Double Deer Cottages Phase 1 – 8.67 REs C. Double Deer Cottages Phases 2 & 3 – 9.33 REs D. Elk Ridge Heights – 22.67 REs E. Silver Creek Village Lot 2 – 102 REs Estimated LEA REs Year to Date: # Above Splitter 0; # ECWRF 0; # SCWRF 0; Total 0 Proposed this Meeting: # Above Splitter 0; # ECWRF 129.33; # SCWRF 201.17; Total 330.50 VIII. DISTRICT MANAGER A. Action Items – Consider approval of Resolution #133 – MWPP B. Information Item 1. Financial Statement 2. Impact Fee Report 3. 2018 Adopted Budget / 2017 Performance Report IX. A. B. C. D. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Projects Operations Finance Governmental Matters X. ADJOURN If you are planning to attend this public meeting and, due to a disability, require reasonable accommodation in understanding, participating in or attending the meeting, please notify the District twenty-four or more hours in advance of the meeting, and we will try to provide whatever assistance may be required. Board members may appear telephonically. F. Park City Heights Phase 2 – 58.5 REs Location: Sheldon Richins Building (Library), 1885 West Ute Boulevard, Park City, UT 84098 AGENDA Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 2. Public hearing and possible action regarding The Commons at Newpark Final Subdivision Plat and Final Site Plan for an 7 residential unit development project; 1153 Center Dr.; Parcel NPTCR-R-2; Matthew Crandall, Applicant.– Amir Caus, County Planner 3. Public hearing and possible action regarding two Subdivisions on The Colony at White Pine Canyon Phases 5B and 5D Subdivisions Final Plat Decision Amendment; John O’Connell, Applicant .– Amir Caus, County Planner 4. Public hearing and possible action for a Plat Amendment to amend the right-of-ways adjacent to Lots 16 and 32 in Silver Creek Subdivision, Unit I; 6801 and 6818 North Earl Street; Parcel SL-I-2-32 and SL-I-4-16; Derrick Radke, Summit County Public Works Director, on behalf of Summit County, Applicant .– Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner 5. Public hearing and possible action regarding a Condominium Plat for a previously approved sixty-eight (68) unit multi-family development; Quarry Springs, Southwest corner of Kilby Road and Pinebrook Blvd; Parcel SS-8-B-2; Quarry Springs, LLC, Applicant .– Jen- It’s never going to snow again. That’s not just my assessment of the situation. I’ve combed the internet looking for long-range forecasts that take us through the end of ski season, and they are all the same: Warmer and drier than normal. There might be a flurry here and there, but when it comes to real snowstorms, don’t bet on it. Meanwhile it is warming up to nearly 50 degrees, and things are beginning to melt. Most winters, I try to maintain a layer of permafrost on the road into my house for as long as I can. It’s easier to plow the snow if I’m not picking up gravel. There is a chance of keeping the car clean if there is a cap of ice over the dirt road. This year, the road never really froze. These little storms have been just enough to keep it soggy. The propane truck came in and really chundered it. I’ve now got a sacrificial pair of dog walking shoes that are caked with mud. Walking out to the mailbox requires a change of clothes. There’s no way to keep the dog clean. He goes out and splashes around in the mud puddles, getting his fur loaded up like a paintbrush. He comes in and spreads it all through the house. I’m used to that in April. It never occurred to me that mud season could last for six months. Despite it all, the skiing has been pretty good. Day after day on the groomers is as unexciting as a warmed over tuna casserole, but as tuna casserole goes, it’s been just fine. The groomed runs still have adequate coverage thanks to heroic snow-making efforts. The grooming is done to perfection, and there hasn’t been a lot of traffic on the mountain. So for a couple of hours, bombing the groomers is fine. There have been days when the bowls are OK, but coverage is fading fast. Moguls are getting big and the troughs are getting rocky. Some of the traverses require jumping over logs and an occasional dry-land portage. So the ski season appears to be between 9 a.m. and noon, and then the idea of working on my taxes begins to seem like a reasonable alternative. I could start the spring fence-mending any time now. The visitors I’ve talked to on the lifts are having a good time. Forty degrees and sunny makes The days are getting longer, and these 45 degree afternoons will begin to do some damage.” for a more pleasant vacation than sub-zero and blizzard conditions. I don’t know if bookings are falling off or not. It’s not like anybody else has snow, either. There have been times when Alabama had a deeper base than we did. I suppose if you are looking at spending what it takes to get here for a vacation, the lack of snow can’t be encouraging. Maybe snorkeling is a better option this year. For the time being, though, conditions for a vacation would be fine. The big question is how long it will last. The days are getting longer, and these 45 degree afternoons will begin to do some damage. Both resorts have finite water rights for snowmaking, so even if it turns cold again, they can’t make a whole lot more snow. We’d best get what there is while we can. I’m starting to get seed catalogs in the mail. Usually it seems like a cruel joke to be getting catalogs about bounteous summer vegetables in deepest, darkest, February. Spring is months away. I’m not much of a gardener, and our climate isn’t very conducive to raising much anyway. What the critters don’t eat will freeze with some random storm in July. But this year, sitting on my porch, basking in the heat of a February afternoon, the idea of growing some vegetables begins to seem interesting. They have a hybrid sweet corn that is supposed to mature in 68 days. If I wait until the mid-June freeze, I might be able to get some corn in time for the first frost in September. My raspberry patch has died out. I’m not sure who was eating the bushes — thorns and all — but just about the time there were berries big enough to eat, something would come through in the night and munch the bushes off at ground level. The patch was in the wrong place anyway; too shady and difficult to water. So while riding up the lift the other day, I started planning out a garden, with a substantial fence around it, and a sprinkler plumbed into it. 68-day corn, some sweet peas, raspberries— might even try pumpkins. It all seems quite plausible when it’s nearly 50 degrees in February. Of course I’ve been here long enough to know that it always averages out. We could get five feet of snow in May. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. sunday in the Park By Teri Orr Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, February 13, 2018 4:30 p.m. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. Too early to plant the garden? nifer Strader, Senior Planner 6. Public hearing and possible action regarding a Plat Amendment to amend the plat notes relating to setbacks on Lot 61 of the Sunrise Hills Subdivision; 4160 West Sunrise Drive; Parcel SR-1-61; Knight West Builders, Applicant .– Sean Lewis, County Planner DRC Updates Commission Comments Director Items Adjourn A majority of Snyderville Basin Planning Commission members may meet socially after the meeting. If so, the location will be announced by the Chair or Vice-Chair. County business will not be conducted. To view staff reports available after Friday, February 9, 2018 please visit: www.summitcounty.org Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Melissa Hardy, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 6153157. Posted: February 9, 2018 Published: February 10, 2018 – The Park Record Wintering the season at hand... We are here — at the midway point — of our collective winter of discontent. I had been thinking the full disorientation of too many events crammed into too short a space of time combined with mild weather was making me, alone, completely out of sync. But it turns out there are many of us suffering, increasingly in less silence, about how we feel a bit unmoored this faux winter season. I had lunch this week with an old friend/former fellow teammate from a work environment almost 30 years ago. We have stayed friends probably because the bonds we made in the pressure cooker of the newsroom are like no other. We have been involved deeply in our community in different ways ever since — because we genuinely love it here. But this lunch we talked a lot about “getting off the bus.” Not stopping our work lives but trying to stop some of the insanity swirling around us. The never-ending cycle of needing to respond to the next crisis and or email. And there is always a next crisis. January had been brutal. The traffic — the news cycle — and the mild weather — had made for extra work in abnormal conditions. We both commented how hard it was to feel winter when it was sunny and 51 degrees outside. We laughed a lot too — as we always did — part of the glue that has kept us friends. And as we left the diner and walked outside with the sun shining in the bright blue sky, he stopped in the parking lot and said, “What a beautiful day!” I responded by saying, “Unfortunately!” And then I stopped myself and backed up and said, “You’re right. It is a beautiful day and I should just enjoy it for what it is.” And he replied — “See, that’s what I mean about wanting to get off the bus. We are so ingrained in what we think we should want, we kinda miss what we have.” That night after a day of work-related moderate fullbody slams, I pulled the drapes at home and looked around for something for dinner. I was feeling sorry for myself, which is a room I try not to enter very often. I decided the solution was chocolate pudding for dinner. I had some pre-made from the store along with some whipped cream. I covered the pudding with so much whipped cream it looked like it had fully snowed all over the dark pudding. I ate every bite while I rented a movie on television and got lost in the book brought to screen I had loved years ago. Mother Nature is a fickle brazen hussy some years. I suspect this is one of those.” The book was being assigned to middle school kids the galaxy over about four years ago. So all my Grands were reading it and I did too. It was called “Wonder” about a boy who was entering public school for the first time at fifth grade. He had been born with a number of defects that required a number of surgeries and left him with a scarred misshapen face. His mother had homeschooled him. Entering school for the first time at that pivotal moment in life was a challenge — for his parents and older sister. I loved the book as did the Grands when we all read it. The movie features Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson — who has never won an Oscar. I don’t think this is his year either. But the story wasn’t really about their characters — it was about their son, Auggie, and how cruel kids can be and how the human spirit is resilient and how kindness always wins. I had about a two-hour nonstop deeply cathartic cry. I did get back on the bus — er computer — after the film to ... just check a few things. Xfinity had already sent me a message about my buying the movie. “You chose a good one,” it said. And I laughed since that is ALWAYS what it says when you purchase any film. A friend who makes her living from the land in a different way had posted that the arrival of her seed packets was occasion to celebrate because — “they give me hope.” And I looked carefully at the photo. There were packets of fennel and brandywine tomatoes and pumpkins waiting for the ground to thaw in her high-desert location so she could plant those seeds that will become the vegetables that will be the ingredients that will become the meals she will serve again in her award-winning kitchen. She loved the arrival of the packets because seeds help her see the future. Which is what has been missing for a while in our nose-down daily grinds of a season that is neither fully winter or anything else. The mild temperatures have confused plants in the yard and things are popping up that should never be seeing a February in the mountains. I have lived here long enough to not be surprised by snow in any month of the calendar. I’m guessing this year will not be different. When the resorts close we often have great storms for days, sometimes weeks, on end. Mother Nature is a fickle brazen hussy some years. I suspect this is one of those. Fat Tuesday is next week and the season of Lent begins the day before Valentine’s Day — which seems unusually cruel. I mean giving things up the day before you might really want them. So this year I’m gonna follow my friend, Sister MaryAnne’s lead and instead of giving up anything for the season I will add something. I will try very hard to add gratitude for things just the way they are ... every day including this Sunday in the Park... Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |