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Show A-2 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 3-6, 2019 The Park Record Continued from A-1 The Park Record. Serving Summit County since 1880 The Park Record, Park City’s No. 1 source for local news, opinion and advertising, is available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. Single copies are also available at 116 locations throughout Park City, Heber City, Summit County and Salt Lake City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Summit County (home delivery): $56 per year (includes Sunday editions of The Salt Lake Tribune) Outside Summit County (home delivery available in Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Utah counties; all other addresses will be mailed via the U.S. Postal Service): $80 per year To subscribe please call 435–649– 9014 or visit www.parkrecord.com and click the Subscribe link in the Reader Tools section of the toolbar at the bottom of the page. To report a missing paper, please call 801–204–6100. 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No portion may be reproduced in any form without written consent of the managing editor or publisher. The Park Record (USPS 378-730) (ISSN 0745-9483) is published twice weekly by Wasatch Mountain News Media Co., 1670 Bonanza Drive, Park City, UT 84060. Periodicals postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, 84199-9655 and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Park Record, P.O. Box 3688, Park City, UT84060. Entered as second-class matter, May 25, 1977, at the Post Office in Park City, Utah, 84060 under the Act of March 3, 1897. Subscription rates are: $56 within Summit county, $80 outside of Summit County, Utah. Subscriptions are transferable: $5 cancellation fee. Phone: 435–649–9014 Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday Trump talks of Park City to happen. But he started to like it. I said, ‘You know, this could be a long time.’ He’ll be in office someday or doing something fantastic. Thank you, Ryan. Great job,” the president said. Following the pepper spray incident at the high school, an 18-year-old senior admitted to a count of criminal Continued from A-1 Teen stands with Trump him to address the gathering. “My first reaction was, ‘My goodness, I can’t believe this is happening,’” Zink said. The president, interrupting his own remarks, opted to have Zink step to the lectern and speak, clapping as Zink made his way to the front of the room before shaking the student’s hand. As the crowd chanted “Ryan,” Zink offered brief remarks about the ideal of a student’s freedom of speech in front of a smiling Trump. The student said in his remarks to the crowd free speech in schools “is currently at stake.” “It was really incredible. I would say a life-changing moment,” Zink said about the appearance beside the president. “He’s a person I really look up to. He’s a very hard worker.” Zink described Trump as someone who gave back to the country by seeking Continued from A-1 Request withdrawn initially offered to up the total to 40. He characterized the requested changes as minor and seemed to find the Council’s request disproportionate. “The larger issue, quite candidly, the one that I’m disturbed by, is the fact that you perceive that somehow because we’ve been successful, that somehow every time we come in front of you you’ve got to extract something from us,” Najafi said. Councilors suggested a meeting with Najafi and staff in a closed setting to work it out. Councilors Chris Robinson and Doug Clyde agreed to represent the Council, and they set a time. Robinson said he was “trying to get to yes.” Initially, Najafi agreed, saying it was his top priority and he was only an hourand-twenty-minute flight away. But by Thursday afternoon, Promontory had withdrawn its request. Promontory general manager Robin Milne said the group would make accommodations on its end and didn’t want to trouble the county any further. “Based on what the county wanted in return for our request, we just felt it was an overreach,” Milne said. “We decided to continue operating under the existing development agreement as is.” That agreement allows for 1,764 units and nearly 700 have been built so far, Najafi said. It requires 37 employee housing units, of which two have been built. Since at least 2008, the Snyderville Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs A t t h e H i s t o r i c Vi l l a T h e a t r e 3092 So. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City (801)484-6364 888.445.RUGS (7847) Mon.-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm mischief, two counts of assault and a count of disrupting a meeting in 3rd District Juvenile Court. Fourteen other counts were dismissed. The student was 17 at the time of the incident. The release of the pepper spray forced the evacuation of the building as students and teachers complained about respiratory issues. Fourteen people were treated at the high school. One person required hospitalization. The Turning Point USA event was moved to Ecker Hill Middle School. The student at a juvenile court hearing explained his reasoning. “I didn’t feel as though it was a very safe thing for a lot of our students to really have in our school, so I decided I wanted to disrupt it,” he said at the hearing. the presidency. He said the president acted differently than he is seen in the media, describing the coverage of Trump as portraying him as “devilish.” He said he hoped the release of pepper spray at the high school would be well publicized. Zink said the incident in Park City showed the public something like that is “actually happening in our schools.” The president acknowledged it is something that cannot happen again, Zink said. “It meant a lot to me just to know the president agrees with me,” Zink said. The release of the pepper spray required the evacuation of the building, with students and teachers complaining of respiratory issues. Fourteen people were treated at the high school. One person required hospitalization. An 18-yearold senior at the high school, who was 17 at the time of the incident, admitted to four counts in 3rd District Juvenile Court. Zink’s appearance alongside Trump was a rare moment for a Park City-area resident to stand with a president in a formal setting like a presidential speech. Bill Clinton twice visited Park City on vacation during his second term in the White House, greeting people along Main Street, and George W. Bush once traveled to Park City during his second term for a private fundraising event. Basin Development Code has required 20 percent of the density of new developments to be dedicated to affordable housing, Summit County Planner Amir Caus said. That requirement doesn’t exist on the East Side, but Councilor Kim Carson said the service demands are coming from the Basin, and called the five extra units Najafi suggested “woefully inadequate.” She pointed out two recent Basin developments — Silver Creek and Discovery — have each surpassed 25 percent in affordable housing. Councilor Glenn Wright said he’d want to require a similar percentage on the remaining development if Promontory’s development agreement were to be reopened, which would yield about 250 affordable housing units. “I just think you need to pull your weight when it comes to affordable housing,” Wright said. “You’ve created enormous burden in the county and because you have a 20-year-old agreement, you’re not pulling your weight.” In a response to a question from Wright, Milne said the development employs about 310 people in the busy season and around 180 in quieter times. Najafi spent the first 10 or so minutes of his presentation extolling the contributions the development has made to the Summit County community in taxes and philanthropy. That includes what he said to be $116 million in property tax revenue over 20 years, $155 million in construction that supports small businesses, $4.2 million to local nonprofits in the last 15 years and $1 million for a new fire station, an ambulance and the land it sits on. “We have tried to be sensitive to the community’s concerns,” Najafi said. “As we’ve been reminded today, clearly the county’s priorities have shifted (since the developer agreement was signed in the late 1990s.)” Continued from A-1 Dump has had its fill The cell had been in operation since the 1980s, Loveday said, and back then, the environmental restrictions were looser. It was little more than just a hole in the ground. Next to that trash mountain is the new cell, lined with three layers of highly engineered material to prevent contaminants from reaching groundwater and a draining system to handle runoff. The landfill also maintains groundwater monitoring stations. As stormwater filters down through the trash, it picks up contaminants and ends up as a liquid called “leachate.” In the new cell, that leachate flows into a separate collection pond to evaporate, or is pumped back into the cell to help decompose the trash. One layer of the barrier, which feels a bit like a winter floor mat for a car, is welded together to create water-tight seams. If there was a lake two feet deep sitting on top of the liner, Loveday said, it would take a drop of water 20 years to pass through. Loveday has been on the job for about three years, but has spent about 30 years in the industry, mostly as a consultant in the private sector. It was on his watch that the landfill opened the first double-lined cell, though he notes it was already being planned before he arrived. The project cost about $1.2 million, he said — $450,000 for engineering and $750,000 for construction and materials. The engineering costs included a master plan for the area and the five other cells that are planned, which should extend the facility’s life by about 40 years, Loveday said. The 2018 master plan estimated that around 80% of what currently goes into the landfill is recyclable materials, pri- marily from the commercial sector. The County Council supports his efforts to find creative solutions, he said, paying for the environmental protections in the new cell and studies to help determine what other plans might work in Summit County. One program Loveday said he’s excited about it will enable the landfill to recycle the hundreds of tons of cardboard it receives each year. The landfill is in the process of purchasing a bailer, which compresses cardboard and binds it into a more transportable cube. There are two businesses that send about eight to 12 tons of cardboard to the landfill each month, he said. With the bailer, the landfill will be able to take that cardboard to a recycling facility in Salt Lake City instead of burying it. The bailer costs about $15,000, he said, but it will probably pay for itself in less than two years. There are also outside groups looking at creating an anaerobic compost digester, which could create methane that could be resold or compressed into fuel. Key to these efforts is a waste characterization study to figure out exactly what the landfill takes in. The study breaks trash down into 30 categories, Loveday said, and estimates how much of each the facility receives. Armed with those numbers, Loveday can better identify future solutions. What stands in the way of such growth, though, isn’t a lack of support from Summit County or community desire to go green, Loveday said. It’s the same problem that plagues several Western states. “The land is just too cheap,” he said. It costs about $35 or $36 for every ton of trash that’s stored in the landfill, Loveday said, and Three Mile Canyon Landfill gets about 150 tons of it a day. In Eastern states, it could cost $150 a ton, which has made innovative solutions more economically viable. It can be even more expensive in European countries, Loveday said, and he pointed to Germany as an industry leader in putting their trash to good use. What happened to the deer? The Three Mile Canyon Landfill made national news this spring when dozens of dead deer were found in the surrounding hills. Heavy winter snows last year forced deer to feed at the landfill, and when the snow receded, people found carcasses nearby with plastic visible in their stomachs. Summit County solid waste superintendent Tim Loveday said his office has taken steps to mitigate the problem, starting with cleaning up the plastic that blows off the landfill into surrounding hills. He diverted some of his eight-person staff to the cleanup effort, and hired six part-time employees to help. Plastic is still blowing onto the neighboring hills, something that Loveday said would be solved with the installation of a litter fence. That fence is being engineered and should be installed in October. It will likely be movable and placed on the downwind side of the cell with exposed refuse, Loveday said. The deer were feeding in the active landfill site itself in the previous cell, so close to the 45-ton bulldozer used to compact trash the driver could reach out and touch them, Loveday said. To stop the deer from grazing in the open trash pit, Loveday said his crews had started using six inches of heavier, denser soil to cover the refuse when they left for the day. The finer dirt they had been using apparently was not enough of a deterrent. They made that switch in May, he said. Rethinking recycling The man who’s in charge of dealing with Summit County’s waste says most people are thinking about recycling all wrong. “Just because it’s recyclable doesn’t mean we want it,” Loveday said. When the recycling from a commingled bin or the Park City Recycling Center gets trucked down to Rocky Mountain Recycling in Salt Lake City, it isn’t actually being recycled there, he said. “We send it not to a recycler, but to a broker,” he said. “He sells what he can get value for.” That might mean offloading to a factory that’s looking for No. 2 plastics to melt into packaging one day, or corrugated cardboard to turn into cereal boxes another. If it doesn’t have value, it ends up in the landfill. And right now, since China set higher purity standards for the recycling it will accept, Loveday said it’s nearly impossible to recycle plastic Nos. 3-7. That’s pretty much anything without a screwtop, including Ziploc bags, packaging and Saran Wrap, he said. And definitely not styrofoam. What’s more, even if the recycling is sorted perfectly, if it arrives at the facility in a plastic bag, it’ll be sent to a landfill. It isn’t worth the hassle of having to disentangle garbage bags from the sorting machines. Loveday said he’s heard of some facilities posting $250,000 a year losses in downtime. Glass can also contaminate a load because it’s too dangerous to be sorted, Loveday said. If crews hear breaking glass when recycling hits the tipping floor, the whole batch will be sent to the landfill. For a list of what — and what not — to recycle, visit recycle.summitcounty.org/ or rockymountainrecycling.com/what-we-recyle. |
