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Show C-1 B-1 BIG STARS EXPECTED AT QUINN’S JUNCTION BUSINESS, A-7 JOIN THE LOCAL CONVERSATION The Park Record is always looking for letters. Send your opinions to editor@parkrecord.com PARK CITY OPPONENT NETS A VICTORY Park Record. COLUMNS, A-16 AN AGENT CLOSES THE DEAL ON ANNUAL AWARD TERI ORR CAPTURES A MOMENT WHEN SHE WRITES 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, April 28-May 1, 2018 Serving Summit County since 1880 A spotlight sought after Sundance | Teaching excellence Vol. 138 | No. 24 50¢ Some uneasy with idea for the Olympics There is concern about a games increasing pressures on growth in Park City, official says COURTESY OF SUNDANCE INSTITUTE JAY HAMBURGER Haley Lu Richardson and John Cho appear in “Columbus,” a narrative feature and one of the two films selected for 2017 Sundance Creative Distribution Fellowships. The Park Record said. They identified the Kamas commuter as a service that could be implemented right away. It launched in June. From November to mid-April, nearly 7,200 riders boarded the commuter, Rodriguez said. The service provides three morning and evening runs Monday through Friday between 6:17 a.m. and 6:08 p.m. The service picks Kamas Valley residents up at the Kamas park-and-ride lot adjacent to Volker’s Bakery. Stops are at the Deer Mountain Affordable Community, Park City Hospital, Park City High School, Fresh Market and the Old Town transit center. At the Quinn’s Junction stop, riders are able to take a smaller vehicle to connect to the Kimball Junction transit center. “The only negative feedback we have heard is requests for stops at Black Rock Ridge,” she said. “What I have really loved about the feedback on the commuter is that people are not just using it because they have to. When we did an on-board survey, people said they were using it because driving is stressful.” Rodriguez said the Kamas commuter will continue to run as normal throughout the shoulder seasons, but she added that officials “would love” to eventually add a mid-day service. The Kimball Junction circulator, like the commuter, was debuted as part of the short-range transit plan. Kimball Junction business officials have The leadership of Park City appears ready to carry the torch toward a bid for another Winter Olympics. But it is not known whether there are naysayers in the community who may want the flame extinguished long before an opening ceremonies would be held. Mayor Andy Beerman, the Park City Council and City Hall staffers recently held their first formal discussion about the prospects of Salt Lake City and the wider Olympic region attempting to host another games, perhaps as early as the 2030 event. The elected officials covered broad issues at the recent meeting but did not delve into the details that are expected to be debated in coming months. One of the topics broached at the recent meeting, though, could become especially intriguing as the talks within the community widen. It centers on the question of what level of support there is among rank-and-file Parkites for another Olympics. The Utah Exploratory Committee, the group that recommended another Olympic bid, last fall commissioned a survey that found 89 percent of the people polled backed an attempt to secure another games. It is not known how many of the people were from Park City, though. The mayor and City Council saw the recent meeting as the beginning of a dialogue about the games, and they indicated there will be numerous opportunities for Parkites to offer opinions about a bid. One of the elected officials, City Councilor Tim Henney, was especially interested in City Hall gathering opinions about the Olympics. He told the others he anticipates the possibility of resistance, saying he had heard what he considered to be “legitimate concern” about an Olympic effort. Henney in an interview addressed the possibility of opposition as the discussions continue. He said he has talked to a few people he anticipated would support an Olympic bid who instead expressed concern. He declined to identify the people he has spoken to but said they are longtime Parkites who he considers to be influential in the community. “My survey sample is so small that it’s not a lot to go on,” Henney said. He said the people with concerns have outlined worries about an Olympics’ impact on the growth pressures of the Park City area as well as the pressure put on the community by the busy special-events calendar. An Olympics could also expand the pressures of the free market on Park City, they have told Henney, he said. “Another Olympics would be hard for them to embrace,” Henney said. Henney, though, said he anticipates there will be Please see All aboard, A-2 Please see Some leery, A-2 It can be a struggle for filmmakers as they seek distribution JAMES HOYT The Park Record For Parkites, the Sundance Film Festival is a chance to see the film industry’s best and brightest for two star-studded weeks in January. Behind the scenes, though, many filmmakers fight simply to have their work shown outside Park City once the festival ends. Making a film is complicated enough on its own. Writing, funding, casting, shooting and editing a film is a tall order, but it’s only half the battle. Finding distribution for the film is the other part of the equation. If a film isn’t distributed, it doesn’t make money. And for a film at Sundance that doesn’t find a good home, the audiences in Park City may be the only people who ever see it. But the distribution process can be intimidating for filmmakers to manage, particularly as the emergence of streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon has made the environment even more complex. “As the marketplace evolved in the past few years with the Sundance Film Festival ... the streaming, video on demand and theatrical distribution possibilities for independent film have really changed,” said Chris Horton, director of the Creative Distribution program at the Sundance Institute. More than ever, filmmakers are exploring a new way to navigate the landscape: doing it themselves. The Sundance Institute, which puts on the annual film festival in Park City, has noticed the trend and sees an opportunity to help filmmakers going the self-distribution route. The organization started the Sundance Creative Distribution Fellowship last year with the goal of helping independent filmmakers find distribution for their work. In 2017, the Institute granted two fellowships to films shown at the festival: one to “Columbus,” a narrative feature, and one to “Unrest,” a documentary. A public case study of “Columbus,” which details the process, pitfalls and triumphs of the distribution project, was released recently, and one for “Unrest” is Please see Spotlight, A-12 3 sections • 40 pages Business ................................ A-7 Classifieds .............................. C-9 Columns ............................... A-16 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-17 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-13 Letters to the Editor ............. A-17 Restaurant Guide.................. A-15 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Amy Vanover is overcome with emotions after being named McPolin Elementary School’s Excellent Educator of the Year on Friday morning. Vanover was accompanied by her husband, Brad Vanover, middle, and other family members during the outdoor assembly. The Park City Education Foundation and the Doilney family honored seven others on Friday with the annual awards. County Courthouse claims all aboard with new routes The Kamas commuter line, Kimball Junction connector draw lots of passengers ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record The community’s interest in Summit County and Park City’s new transit services that were introduced in 2017 “blew officials out of the water,” according to Caroline Rodriguez, Summit County’s regional transportation director. Bus service to the Kamas Valley and a circulator throughout the Kimball Junction area were launched over the summer as part of the county’s short-range transit plan, along with the electric-bike program and electric-express route along S.R. 224. The services were funded through the sales tax initiatives voters approved in 2016 to pay for transportation-related improvements. “They say it usually takes about three years for a transit service to catch on and for us to analyze and understand whether people are going to adopt it. But, we saw people riding the commuter and circulator right away,” she said. Once the tax initiatives were passed, county and city officials explored ways to “spend our transit dollars and get the biggest return,” Rodriguez A noisy construction A loss sticks out year starts in Basin The work includes more than 150 units of affordable housing ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record Summit County planners are gearing up for what is anticipated to be a hectic construction season this year with several projects, including some that will produce affordable housing, expected to break ground throughout the Snyderville Basin, according to Pat Putt, Summit County community development director. If 2017 was the year for granting development permits, this year planners are preparing for that to turn into projects that will be constructed, Putt said, adding that the building season has already started in earnest. “We’ve got our first complaint of noise and early starts, which to us has rung the bell that it is the building season,” he said. Several projects are already underway in the Basin and at the Canyons Village at Park City Mountain Resort, including Quarry Springs at the entrance of the Pinebrook neighborhood and Lift, a 61-unit project adjacent to the Sunrise Lift at the Canyons Village. Construction is expected to commence on at least four more projects at the Canyons over the next couple of months. The construction is spurred Please see Builders, A-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City High School’s Shaye Henderson, right, swipes possession of the ball from Herriman High School’s Marley Strasters during a lacrosse game at Dozier Field Tuesday afternoon. The Mustangs beat the Miners, 12-11. VISITOR GUIDE Brainstorm a way to get to film festival CONNECT Summit County will start its Brain Storm Film Festival with a free screening of “Mindfulness Goes Mainstream” on May 1, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium. The screening will be followed by a Q&A. For information, visit connectsummitcounty.org. |