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Show C-1 B-1 LISTEN TO YOUR ART AT THE KIMBALL BUSINESS, A-17 HAPPY EASTER! Check out page C-10 for tips on how to make celebrating Easter with your kids even better PARK CITY TEENS EDGE CLOSER TO NATIONALS COLUMNS, A-24 Park Record. THINKERS HEAD TO THE THIN AIR OF PARK CITY TERI ORR TELLS WHO GETS WHAT AND WHY THEY GET IT The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 31-April 3, 2018 Serving Summit County since 1880 Media duo visits city for a cause | Sing for spring Vol. 138 | No. 16 50¢ Hotel permit overturned in dramatic vote COURTESY OF CONNECT SUMMIT COUNTY ESPN personality Kate Fagan, left, and published yoga expert Kathryn Budig are set to host a series of events focused on mental health in Park City. PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO The Summit County Council on Wednesday overturned the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission’s decision to grant a permit for a hotel project at the former Colby School property on S.R. 224. The controversial project’s approval in December resulted in the two appeals that were before the County Council. Sports reporter, yoga teacher ready events about mental health TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD JAMES HOYT The Park Record While Kate Fagan’s career as a sports journalist has taken her to Vivint Smart Home Arena multiple times, next week is set to be her first time visiting Park City and, possibly, skiing, she said. Fagan, an ESPN reporter, and her fiancee, widely published yoga instructor Kathryn Budig, are scheduled to visit Park City for a series of events hosted by the mental health awareness nonprofit CONNECT Summit County. Fagan’s talks and Budig’s yoga class will incorporate themes from “What Made Maddy Run,” a book Fagan authored telling the story of Madison Holleran. Holleran, a star athlete at the elite University of Pennsylvania, died by suicide in 2014, and the book investigates the role that pressure and social media played in her mental health, as well as in the broader culture among young people in America today. Fagan will present a series of talks, one at Park City High School on Wednesday, April 4, and one for the public, with free admission, at the Park City Hospital on Thursday, April 5, from 6 to 9 p.m. Budig will lead a yoga session at Tadasana Yoga Studio on Saturday, April 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tickets run $70. Fagan, formerly a star basketball player for the University of Colorado Buffaloes and now a regular contributor to ESPN on- and off-air, knows a thing or two about pressure. She said she hopes her presentation to PCHS, a student body consistently rated among the top in the state in academics, will strike a chord. “The thing that’s been mindblowing about this generation is that it’s been one of the most emotionally intelligent generations we’ve ever had,” Fagan said. “The more aware we can make high school students right now, the more they can take ownership and try to really look at themselves and see how they can help their peers.” As a whole, Fagan wants her and Budig’s presentations to draw a broader audience than those who Please see Media duo, A-2 3 sections • 50 pages Business ............................... A-17 Classifieds ............................ C-11 Columns ............................... A-24 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-25 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-14 Letters to the Editor ............. A-25 Restaurant Guide.................. A-15 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 Lannie “The Marshal” Scopes, left, sings country tunes with 5-year-old Ella Swenson as he and fellow cowboy Craig “Creek” Johnson entertain vacationers near Park City Mountain Resort’s Legacy Lodge on a recent afternoon. The Swenson family is visiting Park City from Las Vegas. Scopes and Johnson, both from Hired Guns, LLC, performed as part of the resort’s Spring Grüv festivities, which continue until April 8. Traffic angers people along a small street in Old Town Park City officials discuss future of Hillside Avenue, a key route to Main Street JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Park City officials on Thursday considered the future of a small but strategically located street in Old Town, opting to hold more talks later after a discussion with added tension following a confrontation between a driver and a person who lives on the street just days earlier. Mayor Andy Beerman and the Park City Council addressed Hillside Avenue, which connects the upper section of Main Street and Marsac Avenue. There are a few residences along Hillside Avenue, but drivers seeking an exit from the Main Street core frequently use the street as an alternative to Main Street itself or Swede Alley. Private vehicles as well as transportation firms and delivery companies use the street. The people who live on Hillside Avenue as well as some residents of nearby streets like Daly Avenue are displeased with the traffic situation. The meeting on Thursday was held a little more than a week after a confrontation on Hillside Avenue involving a pedestrian and a driver. The pedestrian involved in the incident on Hillside Avenue attended the meeting on Thursday, addressing the elected officials. Peter Marth has lived on the street for 30 years and recounted the confrontation in his comments to the mayor and City Council. “Yes, I’m angry. I have good reason to be,” Marth said as his comments spanned the three decades he has lived on Hillside Avenue. Marth said he was talking to a friend who was with a grandson at the bottom of his steps at the time of the incident. There were cars at the top and bottom of Hillside Avenue when a shuttle started up the street from Main Street, he said, describing that the shuttle accelerated as it climbed Hillside Avenue. The vehicle barely missed the three people, he said. “I was so angry. I went after the shuttle driver,” Marth said, acknowledging that he “snapped.” Marth, meanwhile, said drivers over the years have honked at him as he walks on Hillside Avenue and have nearly hit him. He said the amount of commercial traffic and traffic by passenger vehicles has increased over time. Others who live close to Hillside Avenue also spoke to the elected officials, saying the road is used as a primary access to Main Street and relating what they consider to be a dangerous situation for pedestrians. Please see Tiny street, A-2 The County Council sets aside lower panel’s approval of a project at former schoolhouse ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record The Summit County Council unanimously agreed on Wednesday to rescind the permit that was granted in December for the hotel project at the former Colby School property on S.R. 224. Members of the Park West Preservation Coalition and Joe Wrona, an attorney representing resident Andrew Levy, filed two separate appeals on Dec. 22 of the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission decision to grant a conditional-use permit for the project. After a brief discussion of the matter — the topic had been addressed at length in the previous meetings — the County Council overturned the planning panel’s ruling. The decision came despite an attorney representing the property’s owners on Monday accusing the County Council of misconduct and violations of open-meetings laws and calling for the Council to recuse itself. Jess Bost, a representative of the Park West Village Coalition, walked into the Summit County Courthouse on Wednesday with a sense of “loose optimism” before the County Council’s continued review of the appeals. Bost, a Park West Village resident and spokesperson for the coalition, said she was uncertain how the Council would vote prior to the discussion. “We are very happy,” she said. “This is the outcome we were looking for simply because it is what we have been told as residents for the last 20 years. When I moved into my house, I didn’t think we would ever be in the situation we are in today.” In 2014, the former Colby School property was acquired by Emma Worsley and Julie McBroom. Please see Decision, A-14 Democrats, castigating the president, rally The candidates gather with confidence about November elections ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record Utah House Minority Leader Brian King castigated President Donald Trump during his remarks at the Summit County Democratic Party Convention on Thursday, garnering applause and cheers from the audience. “We are all troubled by what we see from the head of the Republican Party,” King said. “What an opportunity it gives us to show the rest of the state, country and world what we stand for in opposition to the Tweeter in Chief and the Chief Narcissist. I don’t think it’s a stretch or even difficult to state with truthfulness that this is the worst president we have had.” Several of the other Democratic candidates who attended the convention also roused the audience with comments berating the president or federal government and highlighting what they see as a contrast between the Democratic and Republican parties while addressing constituents at Park City High School. “We need to talk about not just how bad Donald Trump is, but how far off the rest of the party has gotten and what we, as Democrats, are going to do in contrast to that,” said King, who is running unopposed to retain his House District 28 seat, which covers Summit Park and part of Pinebrook. Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Utah’s House Districts 53 and 54, as well as Senate District 26, addressed party members on Thursday. Most of the candidates for Summit County’s government racPlease see Democrats, A-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Chris Neville, who is challenging District 53 Rep. Logan Wilde, R-Croydon, speaks to attendees of the Summit County Democratic Convention at Park City High School Thursday evening. VISITOR GUIDE Travel the world while visiting the Park City Library The public is invited to travel the world for free via virtual reality from 4-5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3, at the Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave. The traveling will be done on a first-come, first-served basis on the first Tuesday of each month. For information, visit www.parkcitylibrary.org. |