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Show A-4 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 21-24, 2018 Treasure shift disallowed Rule change seen as step to secure buyout support JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record WE’LL PAY YOUR SALES TAX! * SAVINGS UP TO 60% ON SELECT FLOOR SAMPLES AND UP TO 80% IN OUR CLEARANCE CENTER. It’s tax time again and we’d like to offer a little relief. Enjoy storewide savings on fabulous furnishings for every room in your home. All priced to move plus — We’ll Pay Your Sales Tax. Salt Lake Park City (801) 467-2701 (435) 645-7072 2970 Highland Dr. 1890 Bonanza Dr. Mon.-Sat. 10-6. Sunday and evenings by appointment. www.sanfrandesign.com *Offer does not include Stressless, AL Comfort sleepers and recliners, BDI or Technogel. Moving Sale! FInal week: 50-75% off Everything! • Distinctive home furnishings • Lighting • Jewelry • Art • Navajo Rugs Park City’s elected officials on Thursday removed Treasure from a municipal program allowing certain landowners to shift development rights attached to their acreage to a location deemed to be better suited for growth. It is seen as an important step as City Hall attempts to win support for a $64 million agreement to acquire the long-disputed Treasure land, situated on a hillside overlooking Old Town along the route of the Town Lift. The municipal program, known as a transfer of development rights, or TDR, designates certain locations as so-called sending zones, where development rights can be shifted away from, and receiving zones, where the rights can be shifted toward. Treasure had been a sending zone and was seen as the most important one. Only approximately 10 percent of the longstanding development rights attached to the Treasure land were involved in the program, though. City Hall during an earlier round of discussions about Treasure created the program. Officials at the time said the transfer of development rights program was not explicitly crafted for Treasure, but the program was launched during an especially tense period of discussions about the project. The leaders at the time saw the program as something that could break a Treasure logjam through shifting the development rights elsewhere. Such a breakthrough never occurred, though, and the Treasure partnership continued FILE PHOTO BY JAY HAMBURGER The Treasure development team can easily transfer a model of the project, as seen at a Park City Planning Commission meeting during the height of the discussions. The Park City Council on Thursday night, though, prohibited a transfer of the actual development rights attached to the land. to press forward with its plans to develop upward of 1 million square feet of residences, commercial space and convention space. Last winter, years after the program was created, City Hall and the Treasure side reached the $64 million deal. The current roster of elected officials wanted to remove Treasure as a sending zone in an effort to assuage concerns about the agreement to acquire Treasure in a conservation deal. The deal hinges on a ballot measure in November that is expected to be set at between $50 million and $55 million. It would be, by a wide margin, the most expensive conservation acquisition in Park City’s history. There was worry that City Hall could acquire Treasure and then tap the transfer program itself, perhaps someday to shift development rights it acquired in a Treasure deal toward a work force or otherwise affordable housing project. Some envisioned losing voter support if City Hall could shift the Treasure development rights elsewhere if an acquisition is finalized rather than the municipal government outright extinguishing the development rights. If the City Hall acquisition does not close by April 1, 2019, the removal of Treasure as a sending zone would be nullified. The removal of Treasure as a sending zone was not controversial and did not appear to attract widespread attention. The Park City Planning Commission in March recommended the removal. The City Council on Thursday cast a 3-0 vote to remove Treasure from the program with City Councilors Becca Gerber and Nann Worel absent. Nobody from the public was in the City Council chambers when the vote was cast. Steve Joyce, a City Councilor, questioned whether City Hall should scrap the transfer program entirely. City Attorney Mark Harrington, though, said the program should remain intact, explaining it is already a part of City Hall’s development rules should the Statehouse make a move against transfers. minivan at 6:36 p.m. along Marsac Avenue south of Old Town, on the route toward Deer Valley. The minivan was parked in a location where truck drivers stop to check brakes before heading down a steep section of Marsac Avenue. He was in a red 1999 Ford minivan, Kirk said. The man is 61 and last had a listed address in Sandy. Kirk said the man told the officer he was sleeping in the minivan. The Police Department was unsure how long the person and minivan were at the location. Kirk said sleeping in a vehicle is considered to be camping within the city limits, something that is prohibited. He said the officer warned the person verbally against camping inside the city limits. The man indicated he would comply, Kirk said. The Police Department occasionally responds to reports of homelessness in Park City. Cases have been logged on hillsides and the Old Town transit center. The case on Wednesday followed shortly after a report of a homeless encampment outside a building on Kearns Boulevard close to the Park Avenue intersection and a homelessness case reported at the Old Town transit center. post in emergency services. He spent time assigned to an aircraft carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy, after the Sept. 11 attacks. The carrier, in the Indian Ocean at the time, launched airstrikes against al-Qaida positions, he said. “It was exhilarating to have that sense of purpose,” he said, also describing the experience as sobering. “In this case, justified conflict.” The ship he was aboard also enforced a no-fly zone in the U.S. just after Sept. 11, plying the waters 25 miles off the coast of Washington, D.C., and Virginia. McComb’s duties include planning against terrorism. He declined to provide details since emergency services and law enforcement do not typically discuss publicly such strategies. He said Park City had drafted anti-terrorism measures prior to his hiring. He described the measures as sufficient. He said Park City is at an elevated risk of terrorism based on its prominence as a tourism destination with many festivals and international media attention. He said there are no specific threats against Park City. “There is definitely a risk of terrorism. ... But I think that’s true across the U.S.,” he said. Man discovered in minivan The vehicle was parked south of Old Town JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Park City Police Department on Wednesday discovered someone staying in a minivan between Old Town and Deer Valley, logging the case as one of homelessness. Phil Kirk, a police captain, said an officer on patrol noticed the Continued from A-3 Risks assessed the spring and into the summer. McComb wants to better engage the community in emergency preparedness as well as strengthen relationships with other governments in the area. 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