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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, October 19-22, 2019 A-3 The Park Record City Beat CITY EDITOR: JAY HAMBURGER 649–9014 EXT. 15712 | Citynews@parkrecord.com Land annexations expected O L D T OW N PA R K C I T Y J E M $2,195,000 | 4 BD | 3 BA | 2,126 SF 220 Norfolk Avenue, Park City Just steps to Park City Mountain Resort and Main Street, this beautifully maintained Old Town home features a large 2-car garage for all the toys and is perfect for a primary, secondary or ski rental property. M I C H A E L H AT Z FOLLOW ME ON G L O B A L R E A L E S TAT E A D V I S O R +1 4 3 5 9 0 1 - 0 7 2 1 w w w . M i c h a e l H a t z . R E A LT O R Michael Hatz - Engel & Völkers ©2019 Engel & Völkers. All rights reserved. Each brokerage independently owned and operated. Engel & Völkers and its independent License Partners are Equal Opportunity Employers and fully support the principals of the Fair Housing Act. If your property is currently represented by a real estate broker, this is not an attempt to solicit your listing. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City officials are taking steps toward annexing the 1,350-acre Bonanza Flat in Wasatch County and other lands held by City Hall as open space that are not in the municipal limits. The lands, combined, total more than 2,000 acres. Bonanza Flat may be brought into the Park City limits JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Park City officials are taking steps toward annexing more than 2,000 acres of land, nearly all of it owned by City Hall itself, a move that would bring the ground under the jurisdiction of the municipality’s laws rather than those of the outside governments. The land is located in unincorporated areas of either Summit County or Wasatch County, meaning the laws of those counties are in effect rather than those on the books in Park City. Almost all of the land is set aside as open space. The land includes the 1,350acre Bonanza Flat, which is in Wasatch County south of Park City. Bonanza Flat was Park City’s largest conservation deal, as measured by acreage, and it sprawls through meadows and forests. Bonanza Flat is also perhaps Park City’s most complex tract of ground from the perspective of management since there are roads, plentiful wildlife and competing interests from recreation lovers, people who live in nearby residences, hunters and snowmobile riders. City Hall intends to hire a firm with expertise in land planning and surveying to assist with the annexation process, an involved procedure that includes talks with the Park City Planning Commission and the Park City Council. Under that scenario, the municipal government would submit the application to City Hall for consideration with the assistance of the firm that is hired. Proposals from firms interested in the work were due on Oct. 11. City Hall said it received one submittal. The City Council is expected to consider awarding the contract at a meeting on Tuesday. Annexations can become highly controversial when development rights are at stake, but any moves by the municipal government would not be expected to draw the same concern since the land would remain set aside as open space. There could eventually be questions, though, regarding City Hall’s management plans for the land. The move toward annexing the lands has not appeared to draw the attention of rank-and-file Parkites. Park City officials see benefit with the annexation of the ground that is currently under consideration. In the case of Bonanza Flat, officials say, law enforcement issues are better assigned to the Park City Police Department than they are to the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office. Officials say police officers are typically closer to the remote land than are deputies from Wasatch County, as an example. There have been concerns about law enforcement issues like parking congestion at Bonanza Flat even as City Hall continues to craft a document known as a conservation easement that will govern the use of the acreage. In the summer of 2018, a Police Department captain expressed concern about the situation in Bonanza Flat, describing a parking and traffic logjam on Pioneer Day that year. Heinrich Deters, who manages real estate, trails and open space for the municipal government, said the Police Department has “resources and proximity” in relation to Bonanza Flat. An annexation of Bonanza Flat, as well as the other lands, would place the Police Department as the law enforcement agency that would respond to Please see City, A-4 Police told of a bow hunter JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Park City Police Department in early October received a report of a bow hunter in the City Hall-owned Bonanza Flat acreage in Wasatch County. The police occasionally log complaints about hunters on municipally owned open space like Bonanza Flat. City Hall prohibits hunting on its open spaces, citing the activity’s dangers on land that is heavily used by recreation lovers. The police on Oct. 5 at 7:08 p.m. received the report about the hunter on Bonanza Flat. Phil Kirk, a police captain, said the police were told the man was wearing camouflage and was seen approximately 600 feet from Guardsman Pass. Kirk said a person using a trail filed the report. Kirk said the person bow hunting was in Wasatch County. Summit County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers transferred the call to the authorities in Wasatch County to investigate, he said. City Hall acquired the 1,350acre Bonanza Flat, located south of Park City, in a conservation deal. It is a wildlife-rich tract of land. The municipal government is taking early steps toward annexing Bonanza Flat into the Park City limits. 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