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Show A-24 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 19-22, 2019 More dogs on Main By Tom Clyde TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM Trafficking in trucks Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, January 22, 2019 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. 4:00 p.m. Site Visit – Park City Nursery -4459 S.R. 224, Park City, UT 5:00 p.m. Work Session 1. Discussion regarding a request to convert the existing structure (commonly known as the Pace-Archibald Store or General Store) into a coffee shop through the Preservation of Historically Significant Structures pro vision of the Snyderville Basin Development Code. As part of the proposal, the applicant is requesting to im prove an existing shed into a restroom; 4459 S.R. 224; Parcel PP-108-111; Grady Kohler, applicant. – Amir Caus, County Planner 2. Discussion regarding an amendment to the Kimball Junction Neighborhood Planning Area Plan contained in the Snyderville Basin General Plan– Patrick Putt, Community Development Director 6:00 p.m. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 2. Public hearing and possible action regarding possible amendments to 10-4-21: Lighting Regulations of the Snyderville Basin Development Code. – Ray Milliner, Principal Planner DRC Updates 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, January 18, 2019 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) 615-3157. Posted: January 18, 2019 Published: January 19, 2019 – The Park Record Notice is hereby given that the Summit County Board of Adjustment will NOT meet on Thursday, January 24, 2019 The next Board of Adjustment meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 28, 2019 Published: January 19, 2019- The Park Record Continued from A-20 Mountain Town The Crested Butte News reports that Marlene Crosby, the deputy county manager in Gunnison County, told elected officials there that people have been using bigger trailers and other toy-haulers and also leaving snowmobiles at the trailhead overnight. The situation is particularly nettlesome just outside Crested Butte, where the road over Kebler Pass is unplowed during winter. A majority of trailhead users accept the good intentions of the county staff attempting to create order amid the chaos, “but there are those in that community that are brutal and vicious,” she said. Mention was made of the effort along the Interstate 70 corridor, where Vail and other local towns as well as Eagle County have offered to chip in to funding Forest Service personnel to better manage the trailheads and other portals to the backcountry. Within Crested Butte, Christmas was a happily crazy time. Phone calls got dropped, the internet was slow, and lines at the post office were extraordinarily long—all a reflection of a ski town being a ski town, says Mark Reaman, the newspaper’s editor. Still, he can’t help observing that it would be nice to spread out the busyness more smoothly in January and February. He’s had that wish for about as long as there have been destination ski towns. Whistler feels climate change in feast and in famine WHISTLER, B.C. – First Whistler had unseasonably warm weather and then record snowfall in December, 384 centimetres (151 inches). That’s nearly 13 feet of snow. But neither of those extremes seems to fully explain why Whistler Blackcomb was sluggish, which is part of a pattern at Vail Resorts properties. Rob Katz, the chief executive, reported “much lower” destination guest visits than expected before Christmas. It was, he said, probably driven by concerns from the two prior years of poor pre-holiday conditions. And the arrival of snow in December didn’t appreciably bump the numbers. In Whistler, the heavy snow has continued into January. And it fits into a pattern says Pique Newsmagazine editor Clare Ogilvie. This big early-January story was preceded by a windstorm that cut off power to 750,000 in British Columbia. Such weather extremes will become even more likely in future years, the result of increased greenhouse gas emissions, now pushing at 410 parts per million. British Columbia, for all its reputation as a “green” province, has struggled along with everybody else at taming its emissions. It is very likely the province will not meet its 2020 emission reduction target of 33 percent below 2007 models, according to a recent report by the B.C. auditor general. Even in mountain paradise opioid epidemic takes toll CANMORE, Alberta – Banff and the Bow Valley get their fair share of people dying young, mostly the result of climbing accidents and other outdoor activities. But since 2016 three people have died from opioid poisoning and scores more have been admitted to local hospitals for treatment. In Banff, at least 10 people have been hospitalized or visited the emergency room each year since 2015 because of opioid use. Down-valley 20 minutes at Canmore, at the entrance to the park, the count is a little higher. Almost all opioid poisoning deaths are now related to fentanyl. In the first half of 2018, reports the Rocky Mountain Outlook, fentanyl accounted for 92 percent of all opioid-related deaths in Alberta. In recent months, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized drugs that contained fentanyl as well as carfentanil, a synthetic derivative considered 100 times more deadly than fentanyl. Local police say that it could be worse. “We know that a lot of the drugs that are being sold here originate either from Vancouver or from Calgary, and we see what’s happening in both of those communities in terms of opioid overdoses and death. “Why we’re not seeing it as large here, I don’t really know,” said Staff Sgt. Mike Buxton-Carr. But it can take just one bad batch of drugs in a community to create devastation, he added. Whistler drawn into fight between U.S. and China WHISTLER, B.C. – Tourism Whistler has paused its marketing efforts in China, the result of the U.S.-China tensions. In doing so, it follows the lead of Destination British Columbia and Destination Canada. The rift stems from the Dec. 1 arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer for Huawei Technologies. Detained in Vancouver, she remains there on bail pending possible extradition to the United States on suspicion of fraud involving American sanctions in Iran. The diplomatic situation has put Canada in the uncomfortable position of being in the middle of a U.S.-China conflict, says Amy Hanser, a sociologist at the University of British Columbia. “There is a history of Chinese consumers (making) consumption choices based on national interests, and this is a moment in which Chinese consumers are recognizing that they are globally powerful as consumers,” she told Whistler’s Pique Newsmagazine. If the Chinese market has grown for Whistler, it remains “very small,” said Shawna Lang, director of market development for Tourism Whistler. However, Whistler expects growth in Chinese visitors as China gears up for hosting 2020 Winter Olympics. Shutdown could hamper wildfire fighting efforts SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Federal employees will eventually return to work, but there will be lingering effects on wildfire fighting capacities next summer. So says Keegan Schafer, supervisor of a crew on the Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District. In January, the U.S. Forest Service typically begins preparation for the coming fire season, including hiring fighters and other personnel, he tells the Tahoe Daily Tribune. Normally, his phone would be ringing with reference checks and other hiring inquiries. This year, it’s been quiet. With each year seeming to set a new record for fire devastation in California, he says, his agency cannot afford to be put at a disadvantage. In this week’s traffic news, we had another semi-truck fire on I-80 on Wednesday. The eastbound truck caught fire more or less under the U.S. 40 flyover ramp, and closed both I-80 and Highway 40 for a while to clean up. Other than snarling traffic, there appeared to have been no injuries, and no other vehicles involved. As truck fires go, this one lacked drama. It was back on Nov. 21, 2018, when a westbound semi caught fire and shut down the freeway. The most important part of that story was that the truck was filled with Spaghetti-Os headed for Walmart when it burst into flames. The Great Spaghetti-O fire of 2018, a day we will all remember. Strangely, it’s not the oil tankers that are burning. There was also the recent incident when the driver of a semi was trying to evade police by driving his tractor-trailer through the windy back roads of Snyderville, assuming he wouldn’t be noticed driving a 10-foot wide truck down the 15-foot wide Old Ranch Road. The driver was arrested, but there hasn’t been any clear explanation of what was going on, or whether he was carrying a cargo of Spaghetti-Os or something more incriminating. The volume of Spaghetti-Os shipped through Summit County is apparently much greater than you might think, suggesting that not all of you are as committed to farm-to-table dining as you’d have us believe. On the same day as the non-pasta-related fire in Summit County, a semi went off the road in Wellington and flattened a restaurant. No one inside was seriously injured, but the French toast was ruined. The Highway Patrol report on that accident pointed out that the restaurant was now closed. The photo accompanying the report indicates that “obliterated” might be a more accurate term. There was no word on the cargo. The most surprising part of that story was that there is, or was, a restaurant in Wellington. We all know Wellington as a place to buy gas, snacks, and take a bathroom break on the way to Moab. Eating anything other than a gas station burrito there had never occurred to me. On the other hand, there is a great restaurant in Helper called the Balance Rock Eatery. Trips in that direction get planned As truck fires go, this one lacked drama.” around eating in Helper. It’s also far enough off the main road that the odds of a truck loaded with Spaghetti-Os crashing through the front window are pretty slim. Locally, Summit County is working to solve the Kimball Junction traffic problems. The current iteration of the interchange at Kimball Junction is at least the third, and possibly fourth, reconstruction of the intersection in my lifetime. When I got my driver’s license, Kimball Junction was a stop sign, and making the left turn to go to Salt Lake wasn’t bad except on the busiest ski days. But it doesn’t work now, with traffic backing on the off ramps in all directions, and general failure as traffic is clogged by the lights on S.R. 224. It’s terrible if you are just trying to go through it on the main arteries. What gets really difficult is getting across 224 so you can lunch at any of our fine fast food places on the east side before crossing over to Walmart to stock up on Spaghetti-Os on your way to happy hour at Whole Foods. It doesn’t work. 224 will never be a neighborhood street. It also doesn’t work if you are just trying to get from Smith’s to, say, Great Clips. Most of the businesses there are within walking distance, but you would have to be suicidal to even consider walking through there. So the County is going to fix it. They have a special committee that goes by the computer password of KJNMPBRC. They’ve been studying it for a long time now, looking for ways to make it possible to get from one business to another without having to choose between getting run over or moving your car 500 feet several times on a day of errands. The place is a monumental planning failure, with each strip mall deliberately designed by independent owners hell-bent on making sure that their customers can’t access the commercial space in the adjoining, competing, strip mall. There’s no normal street pattern, and what’s there is a hodgepodge of public and private streets and parking lot lanes that look like streets but don’t go anywhere. KJNMPBRC has their work cut out for them, trying to retrofit some sense of order to that chaos. Their big plan to solve it all gets presented to the Planning Commission this week. My guess is it will involve a semi loaded with flaming Spaghetti-Os, driven into the heart of it so we can start over. It’s so scattered, it might take several trucks. 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 Teri Orr And ... scene! I can’t pretend to be black. Or to fully understand the black experience. I grew up a white girl in a white town. When integration started in the late 60s in my rural town outside San Francisco, I was chosen to be a student “hostess” to a student who would now be attending our school from a rival school. I was assigned a tall black football player. I was 5-foot-2 and about 98 pounds. We ended up on the front page our hometown weekly paper — much to the immense shame of my mother — who spit out a mouthful of hateful expressions about how very much I had embarrassed her by agreeing to be a host. It was my senior year and I was already very ready to leave home. Going off to college in Colorado was perfect. And that first semester I marched against Vietnam and for black rights. I was heady with the freedom of my own decision making and new friends of different backgrounds. In some class that fall I was introduced to Langston Hughes and his poem “Harlem.” What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? I wrote a term paper on it. It was all very heavy stuff for that 18-year-old, me. Those few months in a new state with so many freedoms was too much freedom probably for a life that had been so narrow. I came home at Thanksgiving — became engaged to my high school sweetheart and was married that June. I ended up in Reno, Nevada, for a little bit more college before I dropped out to major in motherhood. I had a few black friends — because Reno was more diverse than the Bay Area tiny town where I lived. And a lifetime of misinformation I had been fed slowly dissolved — as I made more friends and had more re- al-life experiences. When I was divorced — six years later — my world grew larger and so did my circle of friends. When I moved to Park City at age 29 with two small children as a single parent, I continued my education and grew even more liberal wings. My day-to-day world was a funky ski town in a very white state but once a year I took my children to San Francisco and immersed them in cultures not their own — in neighborhoods very different from ours in Utah. It wasn’t A lifetime of misinformation I had been fed slowly dissolved — as I made more friends and had more reallife experiences.” much but it was something. This is all a really long way to explain how I snuck into a movie theater in Salt Lake City this week and had another shift of perception and understanding — thanks to brilliant storytelling. I took my car in for service on Monday morning. They said they would need my car most of the day and gave me a loaner. I started to go to my default time-sucking place — close to the dealership — Fashion Place mall and wander around. But then I remembered there had been a gang-related shooting there the day before. I grabbed a slice at The Pie — a family favorite and looked at the movie theater across the street. I decided to see a film I had heard some buzz about — “If Beale Street Could Talk.” It is based on a novel by James Baldwin and it is — on the surface — a love story that takes place in Harlem in the ’70s. When Baldwin spoke to Hugh Hebert of The Guardian upon the release of “Beale Street” in 1974, he said about his work: “‘Every poet is an optimist. But on the way to that optimism ‘you have to reach a certain level of despair to deal with your life at all.’” Regina King has now received both the Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice awards for her work as best supporting actress in this film. She plays the role of the mother of the young woman who falls in love with a young man in Harlem in the ’70s. It was an era I lived in but not at all in the same way. Not at all. I wasn’t raised in an inner city and I am not part of any minority — unless you consider being Irish still a subset. So while the music and the clothes were familiar from that era — the location and situations were not. I was utterly transported and immersed and completely engaged in the storytelling. The slow sensual rhythm of much of the film ... shot with rich deep tones and tender long kisses. The gritty neighborhood — the easy talk between long lost friends. You could say too, the film is about social justice at its core. How the law applies and is applied to different socioeconomic groups. How justice really should be (color) blind. What it means to love fiercely and believe without a shadow of a doubt in a person. How families can love just as fiercely — each other. What matters this week, is that movies — and their makers — will be in every public and many private spaces in Park City for 10 full days. And for the price of a ticket ($25) you too can time travel and learn about people and places and causes you never understood. Sundance is the ridiculous star-studded vacation you can take in your own hometown. So as they say in the storytelling world of the popular NPR radio show — “The Moth” — you either have a good time or you have a good story ... let’s share ours when the technicolor storytelling circus ends in February ... on a Sunday in the Park... Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |