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Show A-18 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 22-25, 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, September 27, 2018 TIME: 8:30 AM LOCATION:BASIN RECREATION ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE 5715 TRAILSIDE DRIVE, PARK CITY, UT 84098 AGENDA 8:30 AM EXECUTIVE SESSION: Property acquisition 9:00 AM Move to open session 9:05 AM Public comment 9:15 AM Approval of August 23, 2018 meeting minutes 9:20 AM Discussion, review and possible adoption of the “EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR THE ACQUISITION OF OPEN SPACE” 10:05 AM Chair’s comments 10:20 AM Basin Recreation report to BOSAC 10:30 AM Adjourn Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations during this meeting should notify Jessica Kirby (435) 649-1564 ext. 26 prior to the meeting. Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, September 25, 2018 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. 4:30 p.m. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 2. Public hearing and possible action regarding a Conditional Use Permit at Building G of the Park East II Business Community Commons for a new manufacturing and brewing location for the Park City Brewery; 4554 N Forestdale Drive, #41; PEIIBCC-41; Scott Ray, applicant. – Sean Lewis, County Planner Work Session 1. Discussion regarding possible amendments to Chapters 1 and 2 and the RR/MR/HS sections of Chapter 3 of the Development Code. – Ray Milliner, Principal Planner and Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner 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, September 21, 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. Real estate news I’ve suspected for a long time that the world has slipped a cog and has been wobbling out of orbit for a while now. This last week has provided some additional proof of my theory. My house is in a neighborhood of mostly 60-year-old vacation cabins that adjoin the family ranch. There are about 60 lots in the area. Most of them are now into a third generation, and only about half built on. Most people bought two and have no intention of selling the vacant lot. Next door is another neighborhood of about 30 slightly older cabins. For the past 65 years, people living in both neighborhoods have walked freely up and down the road along the riverbank, enjoying the view and fishing. There’s a big fishing hole that is also a great place to swim and play in the river that is just beyond the boundary, in Plat 1. I’m in Plat 2. For reasons that remain unclear, and despite logic and reason, the barricades are up and people are forbidden to cross the border under threat of arrest. It seems like an episode of “Seinfeld,” where Jerry’s father on the HOA board gets a bad case of “You kids get off my lawn!” In the same week the war erupted between Plats 1 and 2 over closing the border, Outside magazine published an article about a new app that helps vacationers connect with adventure guides in Utah and Colorado. It sounded like it was mostly about booking a ski instructor without paying the resorts’ prices, but the photo of the app on somebody’s phone showed “fly fishing on the upper Provo River” as the desired adventure. So while the neighbors in Plat 1 are stringing up the razor wire to prevent incursions from Plat 2, there are “guides” who will take the general public right to the contested fishing hole for $150 a day. Also in the last week, one of the vacation cabins sold for well over a million bucks. This is the second sale in that price range in less than a year, and there was a house that surely cost that much built on a lot where the old house was scraped off. I realize that a million bucks isn’t much by Park City standards. But for a neighborhood with small lots, dirt roads, marginal snow plowing, unreliable utilities and grumpy neighbors in Plat 1, it’s shocking. I mean, who could enjoy the solitude of 50 acres of real wilderness property if you have to fly in to Heber and drive 20 minutes?” It’s a very nice house, no doubt about it. It’s probably a lot nicer than that shack the school district bought for the superintendent to live in. I mean what kind of employee relations does that show, expecting the superintendent to live in some $870,000 double-wide? The granite countertops are probably 2014 colors. But to have houses in my neighborhood selling at the price of 1.5 superintendent houses is alarming. I was just getting myself collected from the jolt of realizing that my house is a teardown in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood (I always keep an old tractor parked on the front lawn for defensive purposes), when another neighbor called. This guy has a few 10-acre lots that adjoin the ranch on the other side. They 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 Jenny Knaak Posted: September 21, 2018 Published: September 22, 2018 – The Park Record DRC Updates are very pretty, but the terrain is such that even with 10 acres, the houses will all end up close enough that they might as well be on an acre. He had a potential buyer who was so in love with the idea of owning a building lot in the wilderness that he was going to buy all of them, price be damned. He didn’t want any loud or obnoxious neighbors to spoil the seclusion of the place. The only hangup with the deal was that he wanted to buy some adjoining flat land from me. He wanted to build an airstrip. I mean, who could enjoy the solitude of 50 acres of real wilderness property if you have to fly in to Heber and drive 20 minutes? The need for a landing strip was obvious, even if the irony was not. What are these people thinking? There isn’t enough flat land there to build a runway long enough for a private jet. So by building a short runway on the available property, the guy would be admitting to all the world that he is not now, and probably never will be, in the private jet league. Propeller trash. I was more than happy to spare him from that humiliation by refusing to discuss a sale. Meanwhile, Wasatch County has approved the Mayflower development adjoining Deer Valley. It’s 1,970 equivalent residential units, which is Wasatch County’s currency for density. There’s kind of a foreign exchange issue converting it to Park City or Summit County units, but the end result is basically building a second Deer Valley on Highway 40. It won’t happen overnight, and there’s no airstrip involved. But yikes! Staying on the platform Notice is hereby given that the Summit County Board of Adjustment will NOT meet on Thursday, September 27, 2018 The next Board of Adjustment meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 25, 2018 Published: September 22, 2018-The Park Record WSD Board Meeting Weilenmann School of Discovery will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Tuesday, September 25, at 5:30pm. Address is 4199 Kilby Road, Park City. The public is welcome. Continued from A-14 Mountain Town News gone up, 4.5 percent from 2016 to 2017. “That’s some of the strongest wage gains we’ve seen in 10 years,” he said. There’s good money to be had in skilled sectors: carpenters, dry-wallers, cement workers, plumbers, and heating and air conditioning specialists. “People aren’t going into the trades anymore,” said Robert Whitson, owner of Express Employment Professionals in Durango. “And those are good-paying jobs.” But then there are other jobs. A livable wage in Durango and surrounding areas is $13.31 per hour. Durango, if not Aspen, is still a fairly expensive place to live. But then, so is Denver nowadays. Bus drivers’ wages may need to be raised more JACKSON, Wyo. — Bus drivers in Jackson Hole this winter will get bumped wages. Drivers for Start, as the bus service is called, will get $19.25 an hour plus their choice of winter bonuses that range from $450 to $1,000 or a mountain ski pass. To get these perks will require an average 30 hours a week. Larry Pardee, the town manager in Jackson, says wages may be nudged even higher if administrators get insufficient applications. The town is advertising nationally, reports the Jackson Hole News&Guide. Lake Louise not in mix for the 2026 Winter Olympics CANMORE, Alberta — If Canada gets the right to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, it won’t be in Banff National Park. That rules out Lake Louise, a perennial spot on the World Cup skiing circuit. Instead, committee organizers in Alberta have put together a package that would employ two venues that also hosted events in the 1988 Winter Olympics. Nakiska, located in the Kananaskis Country south of Banff, would host the skiing and snowboarding events, while Canmore, at the entrance to the national park, would host the cross-country and biathlon events in Canmore. Calgary is proposed for aerials, big air, and assorted other events. But here’s where the new attention to frugality comes in: The Canadians propose to let Whistler — site of several of the events at the 2010 Winter Olympics — to again host the ski j umping and Nordic-combined events. This, according to bid organizers, will save $50 million. However, upgrades would be needed at Nakiska to make it work. The Rocky Mountain Outlook says Lake Louise was ruled out because of its location within Banff National Park. Both the Yellowstone-to-Yukon Conservation Initiative, or Y2Y, along with Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society opposed holding the Olympics within the national park. The park has three downhill ski areas: Lake Louise, Mt. Norquay, and Sunshine. The Canadian proposal sees need for an investment of $3 billion in capital costs and $2.4 billion for operations. The latter would be largely offset by $2.4 billion in revenue. In addition to Canada, six other countries are investigating potential bids for the 2026 Winter Olympics. The United States is not among them, but a handful of resort cities are looking at 2030. Hunting guide killed by bear near elk carcass JACKSON, Wyo. — A hunting guide from Jackson Hole was found dead last weekend after being attacked by a bear. All indications were that it was a grizzly bear, said a regional wildlife supervisor for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. The Jackson Hole News&Guide reports that 37-year-old Mark Uptain was processing an elk carcass with his client when they were attacked. The elk had been killed by an arrow the previous day but the carcass had not been disturbed, suggesting the bear had not been feeding on it. The client, who was from Florida, told authorities he tossed a handgun to the victim when the attack began and then ran away to call for help by telephone. This occurred six miles within the Teton Wilderness area. A second bear was in the vicinity but did not attack either man. To all my friends with small children: Be warned. This will happen to you. One day, you will wake up to find your sweet, silly, chubby-faced toddler has become a surly, sour, acne-faced adolescent. Gone will be the face-crushing kisses, replaced by cold indifference. No longer will they go skipping happily to their school friends and beloved teacher — they will grumpily shuffle to the car for a zero-hour class (one you lobbied unsuccessfully to have them drop), and tumble out without so much as a “Thank you” as you try to navigate through the pot hole-ridden, teenage driver-filled parking lot, hoping to escape without incident. You will have a high-schooler. And you will wonder when they grew up. You will think “God, I’m so old. But I don’t FEEL old...” Then your teenager will play their preferred music, and you will think, “I don’t think this is actually music. This. Is. Appalling. Oh My God — I’ve become MY MOTHER!” You will shake your head, and think, “Where did the time go?” You blinked. In geological time, it’s not even the time it takes for a tear to roll down a face, let alone a glacier carve a canyon. Yet, here you are, with this seismic shift in reality. And I’ll tell you a secret. It’s really not as terrible as you think it will be. Teenagers are hilarious. They are so incredibly self-centered, it’s hard to not laugh at them. But you won’t. You will let them talk about themselves incessantly. Until you grow weary of it all and turn on NPR, much to their dismay. The drama rivals telenovela — HE said this about HER, and then SHE told her friends about HIM, and then HER friend told HIS friend... It will take you right back to the drama and trauma of your own high school experiences. And you will feel this enormous surge of gratitude towards your parents, for having putting up with your own version of a Latin American soap opera. You’re convinced you will be The Cool Parent. Letting them program your car radio, driving their friends to school functions, saying funny things during the car ride. Funny To You. No one else in the car laughs. Oh no. You are not cool. Ugh. You will try to be involved. Just like in elementary school, you will volunteer for school functions. But this time, your adorable offspring won’t squeal in delight when s/he sees you. Now, you’ll receive an eye roll. Maybe a scowl. If you’re lucky, you will remain as invisible as your child wishes you were. But, while you’re there, you’ll hear all sorts of amazing things. You’ll hear how sweet, and helpful, and thoughtful your child is. Hmmm ... who is this creature the other moms and teachers are talking about? The adolescent in your home sulks and grumbles when you suggest doing the dishes — this other wunderkind who volunteers to help others is an alien to you. But you nod, and smile. And hope you’ll see this changeling at your home. Sometimes it will all pay off. Once in a blue moon, your offspring will say “Thank you” in a way that makes you believe their sincerity. They will call you, desperate, begging for a forgotten item to be dropped off at the office. And later, they won’t actually voice their appreciation for your willingness to put aside your own schedule, but they will casually drop into the dinner conversation when so-and-so forgot his assignment, the teacher really came down on him. Don’t get me wrong — it isn’t always rewarding or pleasant. You might mention that it looks like they dribbled toothpaste on their shirt, and your offspring will go from seemingly normal to possessed by demons in 1.4 seconds. Yelling, accusations and foot stomping will ensue. And you’ll try to keep your cool. Sometimes, you’ll fail. But you’ll try. I have a friend who likes to say, “They’re the ones on the roller coaster. It’s your job to stay on the platform.” I urge you to remember this — they will loop-de-loop, go up and down and backwards, but in no time at all, they will return to the platform, and walk calmly by. And as fun as your little ones are right now, and I know, they really are ... the high-schooler can be even better. You no longer have to watch your language in front of them — and the first time you catch them swearing, you’ll want to write it on the calendar. They will watch some of the same television shows, and actually understand the jokes. And they will transform into someone you can see yourself being friends with — not quite yet, but sometime in the future. You thought when they were infants, and you held them in your arms, the crushing, overwhelming love you felt for them would be the end of you. You didn’t know. You didn’t think how paralyzing it would be to put them behind the wheel of a car. To hear about their first kiss. To hold their hand through their first devastating loss. You didn’t completely comprehend when you said “I want to have a baby,” it meant “I’m going to be responsible for raising a human. And unleashing them on the world.” And you will lay awake at night, hoping you haven’t screwed it up. At least, not too much. You will find yourself in my shoes. You will be standing on the precipice of your child’s adulthood, hoping you’ve done enough. Hoping you’ve laid enough of a foundation for them to make good choices while they navigate the insane teenage amusement park. Hoping they have enough maturity to face the challenges ahead of them, without you by their side. Hoping they will still call you for help, even when they are miles away. Hoping they still lay next to you on the couch, and fill you in on the drama of their day, any day, especially Sunday in the Park. Jenny Knaak, guest columnist, is the daughter of Teri Orr, the customary author of “Sunday in The Park.” |