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C O M Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 3-6, 2019 Serving Summit County since 1880 Vol. 139 | No. 52 50¢ President rails against Art is fest’s cup of tea pepper spray release A PCHS student appears with Trump in months after conservatives targeted JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record President Trump recently spoke about an intentional release of pepper spray at Park City High School in April that was designed to stop a conservative club at the school from holding an event, telling a crowd in Washington, D.C., “anyone can become a target of the left’s brutal campaign to punish dissent.” The president made the remarks on July 23 at a Student Action Summit organized by Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit. The pepper spray release in Park City was in protest of a conservative speaker who was scheduled to appear that evening. The high school’s chapter of Turning Point USA scheduled the speaker, Prager University’s Will Witt. Ryan Zink, a leader in the Turning Point USA chapter at the high school, appeared on stage with the president and also addressed the crowd. “Earlier this year, in Park City, Utah, a left- Teen talks of standing with Trump ist released pepper spray into a high school auditorium to shut down a Turning Point USA meeting,” Trump said as he introduced Zink to applause. “Twenty students and teachers had to immediately seek major medical attention. Think of that. One of the students from that school joins us today — Ryan Zink. Ryan? Where are you, Ryan? Get over here, Ryan. Come on up here. Come on. Come up here, Ryan. Say a few words.” The crowd chanted “Ryan” as he prepared to speak. Zink briefly addressed the crowd, talking about the ideal of a student’s freedom of speech. He spoke from the presidential lectern with Trump a few feet away. “I do believe the free speech in our schools is currently at stake. Us conservative students — there are many cases: myself, some other people that I’ve met here, and across the country — are being silenced, are being shut down by — whether it be their schools, teachers, friends. We’re not being listened to properly. And our voices need to be proudly expressed. And we cannot be silenced,” Zink said. Trump followed Zink by saying the student might have a future in politics. “You know, he had no idea that was going Please see Trump, A-2 The Park Record The Park Record Ryan Zink on July 23 was in Washington, D.C., for a Student Action Summit organized by the conservative group Turning Point USA. President Trump was amid a lengthy speech, and Zink was aware the president might mention him in the remarks. Zink, a 16-year-old incoming junior at Park City High School who lives on Old Ranch Road, was the vice president of the high school’s chapter of Turning Point USA during the most recent school year and will be the president during the upcoming academic year. Zink became known in conservative circles after someone intentionally released pepper spray at the high school in April, an effort to stop Zink’s group from hosting an event. As Zink listened to the president in the nation’s capital on July 23, the pepper spray incident was moments away from becoming politicized at the highest levels. Zink said in an interview he realized there was at least some chance Trump would call him to the presidential lectern during the remarks. It appeared, though, Zink would instead stand at his seat and wave to the crowd of conservatives, he said. But Zink also had a “gut feeling” the president would ask • Artist booths open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. • Live music: Performances from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. • Food and drink: Tasting area featuring food, beer gardens and concession stands open Saturday and Sunday. For more information, visit parkcitykimballartsfestival.org. After a cordial but contentious presentation to the Summit County Council, Promontory has abandoned its attempt to increase the size of homes in a new neighborhood within the private community to 22,000 square feet. County Councilors said the development isn’t pulling its weight in creating affordable housing for its workers and those who serve the huge homes. Developer Francis Najafi countered that he was merely seeking the codification of something that’s basically allowed already, and accused the Council of trying to extract something from him every time he has business in front of the body. Promontory Investments, LLC, had requested to amend the Promontory Specially Planned Area Development Agreement to allow accessory dwelling units and increase the allowable home size per lot from 10,000 square feet to 22,000 square feet on 36 lots. The developer said he is already legally allowed to combine two lots and build up to 15,000-square-foot homes on them. At the meeting, he offered to lower the square-footage request from 22,000 square feet to 15,000, add five more employee housing units to its obligation and accelerate the building timeline, as well, in exchange for combining the lots into 36 “super-custom” lots that could support homes of that size. The Pinnacle subdivision is a planned gated community within the gated community of Promontory, and Najafi told the elected officials during a public meeting Wednesday the attempt to expand home sizes would allow him to access a new market of buyers. “It’s a marketing issue for me, that’s all it is,” Najafi said. “That buyer does not want to be sitting next to a buyer that has not combined a lot.” Councilors countered that the 20-year-old development agreement includes outdated standards for affordable housing. They indicated if they opened up the agreement, they would seek to apply current standards, which could be as many as 300 units. Najafi Please see Request, A-2 Matt Conlon of Ogden prepares his booth on Main Street Friday morning ahead of the opening of the 50th annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival. JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Former Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to Park City on Sept. 28 for a campaign stop, the first local event by a White House candidate during the 2020 election cycle. The Democrat’s campaign said the stop is part of a month-long swing that also includes Nevada the day before the Park City event and Denver the day after. Details of the stop in Park City, including the location, were not made available on Friday. A release from the campaign indicates the stops on the swing could include events for the communities and fundraising. More information is expected to be released as the date nears. The release also notes the former vice president will visit states like Utah that will vote in the Super Tuesday primaries, a crucial day for the nominating process. Biden visited the Park City area in July of 2012 as part of President Obama’s reelection campaign. He was featured at a fundraiser at a Snyderville Basin home. Biden arrived in a fast-moving motorcade, exiting Interstate 80 at Kimball Junction and heading into the neighborhood. A group of Republicans held a demonstration along the side of S.R. 224 close to Kimball Junction. Dump has had its fill of cardboard, plastics Three Mile Canyon’s new cell designed to aid the environment ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record Please see Teen, A-2 3 sections • 44 pages Classifieds .............................. C-8 Columns ............................... A-22 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-23 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-11 Letters to the Editor ............. A-23 Restaurant Guide.................. A-21 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 CHRISTOPHER SAMUELS/PARK RECORD Promontory abandons effort Biden plans a to double the size of houses Park City stop Summit County’s demand for affordable housing deemed A Park City student says appearance was an overreach by developers life changing ALEXANDER CRAMER JAY HAMBURGER 50th annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival COURTESY OF SUMMIT COUNTY The Three Mile Canyon Landfill’s new cell receives its first load of trash July 17. The cell boasts environmental protections like a leachate runoff system and a highly engineered liner that aims to retain 100 percent of the water that filters through the waste. A new day dawned for the Three Mile Canyon Landfill last month, when its first double-lined cell received its maiden load of trash. But among the eggshells, banana peels and unmentionables that tumbled out of the trash truck were dozens of cardboard boxes and even more plastic. “Cardboard and plastic: those are our two biggest challenges,” Summit County solid waste superintendent Tim Loveday said. Fundamentally, the landfill near Rockport that takes 80 percent of Summit County’s waste is doing exactly what it’s done for decades: burying trash in the ground. But Loveday is striving to VISITOR GUIDE Float over to a fundraiser for Primary Children’s Hospital keep improving on that task by diverting as much trash as he can to other uses. There are exciting programs on the horizon, he said, like cardboard bailing and composting in the near term and converting waste to energy maybe a decade way. And the landfill is taking better care of the land than it has in the past. The double-lined cell Loveday helped usher into existence includes technology to protect the environment that wasn’t used when Three Mile Canyon Landfill opened. It’s the first new cell since the original was opened in the 1980s, and the first of six planned cell. It should last about seven years, Loveday said. The cell that was recently decommissioned rises hundreds of feet in the air and holds about 400,000 tons of waste. The landfill is home to birds and marmots, and Loveday said he’s seen deer feeding right next to the 92,000-pound bulldozer that drives over the refuse to compact it. Please see Dump, A-2 Root Beer Float Day, a fundraiser for Primary Children’s Hospital, will be held from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the Park City Sheraton, 1895 Sidewinder Drive. Donors will get a root beer float, and the money will got to the health and well-being of local children. |
