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Show WASATCH PARK MOUNTAIN The Winter Sports Park Is Jumping! CITY REPORT Lawsuit Settled Telemark Park, Unlike TIMES Flagstaff, Will Break Ground in ’96 everal weeks ago, while a lot of Park City residents were getting riled up about the proposed Flagstaff development, the municipality settled a lawsuit with the Trans Wasatch Corp., allowing the Telemark Park resort to go forward. Although many Parkites were sounding the alarm on Flagstaff, which will be situated between the present Deer Valley ski resort and the Park City Ski area, no one seemed to mind that a development similar in size, would begin construction on the other side of the Deer Valley ski area. After four years of litigation and about a half million dollars in legal fees, Park City Councilwoman Ruth Gezelius and City Attorney Jodi Hoffman hailed the legal settlement as good planning. Don’t dent of Trans Wasatch Corp. road, “The fear Was that See ski jumpers soar from one of the Park’s four Nordic jumps. The development company sued _ the municipality but recently settled, agreeing to keep Keetley Road gated on both ends. To make sure the road wasn’t used for through traffic, Trans Wasatch also agreed with Park City not to connect the eastern and western sections of the it would become a short-cut to the Jordanelle,” Edwards said in a Wasatch Mountain Times interview. The larger part of Telemark Park will be located in Wasatch County. Park City, however, can annex portions of the resort outside of Summit : County. And may do just that, Edwards hinted, Or experience the thrill of jumping yourself — public recreational ski jumping instruction is available weekly on the Park’s 38-meter jumps. #2] sessions in Wasatch Telemark Park will stretch eastward from Deer Valley’s present base lodge, over the ridge and down the other slope to within one mile of the shore of Jordanelle Reservoir on U.S. 40. The development is planned to include 395 condominium units, 150 large single-family houses and three large ski lodges. It also will include one and possibly two chair lifts for skiing and mountain biking. It remains unclear Telemark Park and its chair whether lifts will become part of Deer Valley ski resort. The plan is just slightly smaller than the Flagstaff proposal put forth by United Park City Mines 18 months ago. County prior to the 1991 lawsuit, Edwards noted. Final planning approvals from Wasatch County may be necessary following the legal settle- ment Still, Edwards said Trans Wasatch intends to break ground next spring or summer and expects a four-year buildout of lodges, condominiums and ski runs. The completion of all the singlefamily houses may take longer, he noted. Telemark Park is unique, Edwards said, because it will be situated near a ski mountain as well as a body of train and compete at the Park. on water out your front door.” Whether Telemark Park imized and no through traffic would be become Flagstaff Flagstaff Wasatch Park City allowed on the old Keetley Road, which crossed the ridge from the site of U.S. 40 into present-day Deer Valley about 75 years ago. “Certainly a project of this size generate some interest,” Edwards cedes of Telemark Park. “But impacts, while not insignificant, City officials hailed the Telemark settlement because, they said, development would be kept ridge tops, open space would from be max- It was the Telemark Park develop- snack bar and ski ' &Ba pret i t) © PRL cote DANA om nae 8 i WILLIAMS Honesty, Integrity4 Experience 801-649-4400 800-825-8889 foto] Rola e TUT Cc Is! PREMIER REALTY MAIN STREET accom will Affordable will conthe are nightly home park he said. @ PAGE Day Lodge, Call for information, rates, athlete 3000 Bear Hollow Drive (via Hwy 224) Park City as controversial as the proposal remains to be seen. also is partially located in County and presently outside limits. manageable,” it! 801-649-5447 “We think the water concept will be attractive ... this would allow, ideally, skiing out your backdoor and Park Park Jump development programs, events schedule or brochure: water, Both are annexation proposals. But unlike the Flagstaff proposal, 18- and Or watch Freestyle aerial acrobats shop, too! allowing the levy of property taxes. “It is important to Park City to have the right to annex part of the project,” Edwards explained of the settlement lelemark Park had been the focus of hearings and other planning miss the action at the Utah Winter Sports Park, just five miles from Park City. er’s intent to use the Keetley Road as a thoroughfare that prompted Park City to withdraw a building permit four years ago, said McKay Edwards, presi- 13 rooms rentals city, and in utah 1-800-649-4498 RESERVATIONS |