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Show ' Housing Costs Rob Park City of Needed Ski Bums 4 By Blair Fuelnor Tribune Correspondent PARK CITY From now until the ski season begins, hundreds of y oung people will floek to Park City tn search of jobs and a chance to spend the winter within walking distance of a ski lift Popularly known as ski bums," although many have college degrees, they will work in the restaurants and bas. filling an essential position in Park City's - service- -oriented the federally funded pro "The only salvation to the housing problem is that there is some rela tively low cost housing in Heber and the Wasatch Front where people can work in Park City and commute." he said 'Only Salvation' Meanwhile. Preece added, s?ilt i'aiif Irilmni' Section L rather than apartment complexes," he exp The planner also finds recor- d-breaking its new ''Instead sociological implications to the problem "The price of housing discourages the middle-incomfrom living in Park City. construc- e much easier to of a social mix. you have only the high-incom- e and the low doubling up or witii lained though construction tivity continues at a pace here, the housing shortage is likely to get worse "With Sunday Morning, September get financing for condos, Mr even ac- tion. will pul niueli dent m the problem led income living in " substandard housing Employee Housing In ol her resort com iminities. government 21, 197S of a with the apartments eventually being sold as condominiums, he said Mr Preece suggests Mr Preece is himself a that the creation of a high victim of what he termed density "employee lions " lmghl entire "eondoimniumizrtion mg one Forced to move when the to build af developers condominium he had fordable housing lxen renting was sold, But. the planner said, Mr Preece was unable to precautions would have find another apartment to lx- - taken to ensure that in Park City Now, the such projects wouldn't Park City planner lives in Salt Lake City and "eyesores commutes to work 'Conilominiuniiation' "There was nothing in Other attempts to hmld employee housing m Park City could afford Park City have ended to rent ." he said IageOne and business have re signaled by building low east employee housing Uically, the Holiday Village complex, near I lie Park City High School, is being ex pa tided to meet that need But ":.h only sii units, it is unlikely that e 1 economy. Park City needs them But. ironically, the very prosperity that has created the demand for them is also llueatening to make the ski bum an endangered species Housing Shortage The fad is, soaruig real estate values and rent inflation are pricing Park City's transient lalxir force out of the local housing market miners' Old shacks that used to rent for $90 per month are being remodeled as investments and. in some cases, being rented during the ski season for $90 per night The consequences of the housing crunch became evident last year, whim there were 2.MM1 applications for only 400 lobs at the ski resort, and S3 110th Anniversary were Celebrating the Biggest Mens Clothing Clearance of the Year vet some local restaurants closed early because they couldn't find help Other ski resorts have long fated similui prole lems In Aspen the bidding war for labor drove the wages for hwashers to over hour last season dis$ti per Took a Survey Recently. Park City officials took a survey to determine the severity of the local housing shor- tage Under direction of Park City planner David Preece. questionnaires were mailed to every business in town. The results statistically confirmed the prob39 percent of the lem employers responding reported they had difficulty finding workers because of a lack of housing The planner said the survey also showed the housing shortage was forcing an estimated 28 percent of Park City employees to live elsewhere. Old Home Hazed REINHOLDS, Pa. (API A two-stor- home in which George Washington is believed to have operated a surveying business for 18 days before he became a .general and a president and is now just nibble 'soon to be replaced by a supermarket. Bulldozers last week razed the boarded-uBlack Horse Hotel in this Lancaster County town after a group of residents failed in a appeal to save the historic structure. Hugh D. 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