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Show A-4 Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 15-17, 2020 The Park Record City Beat 2020 FINALS Top scorers in qualifiers will compete in The Park Record Bee on March 10, 2020. Winner of The Park Record Bee will compete in the Scripps National Bee in May 2020. FINALS WILL BE MARCH 10, 2020 AT THE EGPYTIAN THEATRE. 328 Main St, Park City Join us to support our schools and our students! 2nd and 3rd graders start at 4pm 4th-8th graders start at 6pm The UPS Store Park City, Utah CITY EDITOR: JAY HAMBURGER 649–9014 EXT. 15712 | Citynews@parkrecord.com Parking violations continue The drop-and-load case volume seems to have fallen JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Park City Police Department last week continued to log violations involving dropand-load parking zones along Main Street, but it appeared the sheer volume of cases may have dropped as the holiday crowds left. Public police logs showed a string of cases, pointing to ongoing confusion with the zones. The drop-and-load zones debuted around the holidays as Park City leaders saw the program as an attempt to reduce the amount of congestion in the Main Street core and improve the safety of the street. Someone must hold a permit to use a drop-and-load zone. The City Hall permits cost $200 annually. They are available to anyone, but the transportation and lodging industries seem to be the primary users of the drop-and-load zones. The Police Department is heavily enforcing the dropand-load zone rules and there have been a series of vehicles without the required permit towed from the zones. Department logs showed several violations on the eve- JAY HAMBURGER/PARK RECORD A Park City police officer responds to a drop-and-load parking violation on Sunday along Main Street. The Police Department in the last week continued to log violations, but the volume has appeared to drop since the holidays. ning of Jan. 12. In one 20-minute stretch that day, the police issued at least three warnings for drop-and-load violations. The day before, the police over a 51-minute period reported officers conducted 10 traffic stops on Main Street. In at least two of the cases, warnings were issued after the driver was seen stopping in a travel lane to pick people up or drop them off. The overall enforcement efforts have included similar cases as drivers without the permits stop in a lane to let people out or pick them up. In another sort of case, at a little bit before 11 p.m. on Jan. 11, a driver was seen stopping in a fire lane on Swede Alley close to the Old Town transit center to drop people off or pick them up. There was a series of drop-and-load violations that evening as well. The apparent drop in cases during the first full week of the year may signal a better understanding of the drop-andload zones, but it also may be the result of the steep decline in crowds and traffic after New Year’s. The drop-and-load zones are a pilot program for the ski season. They have drawn sharp criticism, including recently from an Uber driver who compared Main Street around the holidays to a scene out of the movie “Die Hard.” Driveways used by others JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Park City Police Department last week received at least three complaints about drivers leaving vehicles in someone else’s driveway, among other parking problems, an indication that the community remained busy even after the holidays and an illustration of the parking difficulties in the city. The Police Department regularly fields complaints about parking problems, but it is not nearly as common for someone to park in another person’s driveway. The police on Friday, Jan. 10 at 4:16 p.m. received one of the complaints, on the upper Deer Valley street of Aster Lane. The police were told a rental vehicle was in a driveway for a week. The person who contacted the Police Department had “no idea who it belongs to,” according to public police logs. Two days before, on Woodside Avenue, someone at 2:43 p.m. reported a vehicle was left in a driveway. Public police logs did not provide details. On Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 2:39 p.m., meanwhile, a vehicle was reportedly left in a driveway somewhere along Park Avenue. The person who contacted the police apparently told the driver they could not park there, but the driver “then just walked away,” the police were told. Parking problems have been widespread in recent weeks as the crowds swelled in Park City at a time of persistent snow, but the cases last week were reported well after the busiest stretch between Christmas and New Year’s. The problems will likely become more widespread as the Sundance Film Festival crowds arrive next week. PoliCe Blotter Wrong-way driver pulled over in Old Town Post your best shots on Instagram with the hashtag: #ParkCityPics and we’ll put the best ones in The Park Record! On Sunday, Jan. 12 at 8:38 p.m., a police officer pulled over a driver at or close to the intersection of Main Street and Heber Avenue, indicating the vehicle traveled the wrong direction on a one-way road at 4th Street. The person also had not obtained a driver license, the police said. Another driver, with a license, was contacted to pick up the vehicle. A vehicle at 6:25 p.m. was apparently left in a location at the intersection of Park Avenue and Heber Avenue where it blocked buses. It was gone by the time a police officer arrived. A suspected drunken driver was reported somewhere along Park Avenue at 5:49 p.m. Public police logs did not provide details. Someone on Eagle Way at 8:21 a.m. reported vehicles were left on a dead-end street, blocking snowplows. On Saturday, Jan. 11 at 7:12 p.m., the police were told of someone hearing “big bass music vibrating through the wall” somewhere along Woodside Avenue. The person who contacted the police wanted an officer to respond to tell the people “to be considerate of others.” The Police Department logged the case as suspected disturbing the peace. A car was reportedly seen parked on Moray Court in front of a mailbox at 6:44 p.m. The police were told the car also blocked snowplows. The Police Department at 5:35 p.m. was informed of a slide-off accident on Marsac Avenue in the southbound direction. The vehicle was not blocking the road, but Marsac Avenue was “getting bad,” the police were told. The Police Department at 10:26 a.m. received a complaint about seven vehicles that were reportedly left on Empire Avenue without the proper permit. One of the vehicles was parked in front of a fire hydrant, the police were told. On Friday, Jan. 10 at 8:39 p.m., someone told the police keys were dropped in a storm drain somewhere along Norfolk Avenue. The person, though, had a spare key and no emergency response was required, the police indicated. A man suspected to be intoxicated was reported on Main Street at 8:26 p.m. The man got into a cab close to the Heber Avenue intersection, according to the police. A snowplow in a parking lot on Woodside Avenue may have hit a power line at 1:42 p.m. On Thursday, Jan. 9 at 8:38 p.m., a police officer stopped a driver on S.R. 224 after reportedly observing the vehicle without the headlights illuminated. A case logged as suspected disorderly conduct was reported at the Old Town transit center at 5:55 p.m. Public police logs did not provide details. A hit-and-run accident was reported in a parking lot somewhere along Lowell Avenue. The police received the information at 3:44 p.m., but the person who reported the case indicated the damage occurred more than a week prior to the police notification. A wedding ring and two credit cards were reportedly lost somewhere on Main Street at 11:53 a.m. On Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 10:35 p.m., a hit-and-run traffic accident was reported at a Main Street garage. Public police logs did not provide details. A Christmas tree was reported to be in the road on Bonanza Drive at 9:04 p.m. The Police Department indicated the tree presented a traffic hazard. On Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 8:37 p.m., the police received a report of a driver hitting a deer on eastbound U.S. 40. The accident scene did not block the road, the police said. A truck was reported to be “losing garbage” at 1:07 p.m. on Kearns Boulevard and S.R. 224. A hit-and-run traffic accident was reported on Empire Club Drive at 12:01 p.m. The suspect vehicle “took off his mirror,” the police were told. One man was reported to be sleeping in a vehicle at 12:20 a.m. in the flagpole lot on Swede Alley. On Monday, Jan. 6 at 5:27 p.m., a truck was reported to be stuck in a ditch off Marsac Avenue. Skiers and snowboarders were seen “grinding on the bridge” somewhere along Marsac Avenue at 3:06 p.m. The Police Department logged the case as suspected trespassing. |