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Show A-2 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 25-28, 2020 The Park Record 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 Continued from A-1 Paradise fire unlikely those in the region of California where Paradise is located. The Santa Ana winds, he said, consistently move hot air, which can increase the fire danger in California. Hewitt added that the fire season in the Paradise area runs throughout the year. In the Park City area, the fire season stretches for just five months as a result of the heavy snows in the winter, he said. “That area would love to have snowfall like we have,” Hewitt said. He said steps can continue to be taken in the Park City area to guard against a devastating wildfire. There has especially been concern for years about neighborhoods like Old Town and Summit Park, two densely developed areas that abut vast tracts of open land that could ignite. Hewitt said houses could be hardened against wildfires with noncombustible materials. The installation of wire mesh under the edge of a roofline or at an inlet to a home could reduce the threat of flames and embers to a structure, he said. He also noted the importance of Continued from A-1 Film emerges turbing” arriving in Paradise to start filming, Howard said in an interview as Sundance approached. Howard, an Academy Award-winning director whose works include “Apollo 13” and “The Da Vinci Code,” is a first-time Sundance filmmaker who is bringing “Rebuilding Paradise” to the festival for the world premiere. “It’s not just that horrible, shocking few days of awareness,” he said, comparing the scene to photographs of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Continued from A-1 Connection chosen age road through eminent domain and if that were to happen, the family would likely develop the rest of the land rather than continue to ranch it. The Bitners are a fourth-generation ranching family who have worked the land north of what is now Interstate 80 for more than 100 years, members of the family have said. The family’s attorney told the council that if the frontage road option were chosen, it would devastate the ranch and preclude future preservation of the land. “(That option would) effectively force development of that ranch over time, as a practical matter,” attorney Ted Barnes said. Silver Creek residents who advocated for the frontage road option in previous meetings have claimed it would affect the area’s wildlife and water quality and would present safety concerns for children waiting at a nearby bus stop. At a November public hearing, a law- PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO The lightning-caused Rockport fire struck outside Park City in unincorporated Summit County in 2013, tearing through nearly 2,000 acres and destroying eight homes. creating so-called defensible space around a structure by removing vegetation that grows close to a building. The fire chief, though, cautioned against downplaying the risk of wildfires in the Park City area. The comHiroshima, Japan, in World War II. The sense of “total annihilation and devastation” was clear in Paradise, he said. Howard described the film as the story of a community recovering from a “cruel test” that killed 85 people and burned upward of 19,000 structures. Howard shows the horrors through footage from the scene and interviews. At one moment, a law enforcement officer tells of finding a survivor when the search had been for the person’s body instead. At another point, Paradise firefighters describe the fire as a perfect storm with wind carrying the flames and little rain. Fires are lasting longer and becoming more extreme, a retired fire chief says. There are personal stories from the people impacted. A shot glass survived the flames, one of the victims said, while another one wants to leave but has nowhere to go. Howard said he appreciated the openness of the community. yer claiming to represent several area landowners who support the frontage road distributed a 45-page letter to councilors that pointed to the likelihood of a lawsuit whichever way the issue is settled and advised the County Council to side with public comments of the county’s safety personnel. Safety providers like Park City Fire District officials have indicated a slight preference for the frontage road option but have said that either road would be an improvement over the current situation. Councilors indicated the response time discrepancy of about two minutes was negligible and that the impact would depend on where in Silver Creek the emergency happened. About 30 people came to Wednesday’s County Council meeting and seven of them spoke. The lawyer representing the frontage road option was not among the speakers. Clyde, in explaining his vote, appeared to be swayed by traffic data. He expressed a desire to capture more vehicle traffic — projections indicated about one-third more cars would use the frontage road — and said that some of the problems cited as downsides to the frontage road had not been fully explored. A pinch point that could impede trails could be alleviated through negotiations with the Utah Department of Transportation, for example, and Clyde said it remains to be seen whether the Bitner munity must remain vigilant, he said. “We watched and followed it really closely at the time,” Hewitt said about the Camp Fire, explaining an interest in the cause and the emergency response. “I wanted to see how they fought it.” Information about fire prevention and safety is available on the Fire District’s website, www.pcfd.org. — Jay Hamburger “Rebuilding Paradise,” an entry into the Sundance Film Festival’s Documentary Premieres category, is set to screen at the following times and locations: • Saturday, Jan. 25, 3 p.m., Redstone Cinema 7 • Sunday, Jan. 26, 12:15 p.m., Grand Theatre Salt Lake City • Friday, Jan. 31, 12 p.m., Park Avenue Theatre • Sunday, Feb. 2, 1 p.m., Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room The film also delves into the bureaucratic and legal implications of a disaster, covering calls from the victims for Pacific Gas and Electric Company to be held accountable and the response by federal emergency officials. But the film also shows a community that must move on. There is debate about where the high school graduation should be held after the destruc- tion. The Miss Gold Nugget Pageant celebration, a tradition in Paradise, is held afterward and the government there starts to issue building permits. The rebuilding begins, and some tell the filmmaker they want to raise their kids in Paradise. “It really does deal with a community,” Howard said. “They’re offering object lessons.” Ranch could be preserved as open space even with a road running through it. “I believe that’s a negotiation that hasn’t happened yet,” Clyde said. “Where would you rather have that traffic — through a bucolic meadow or would you rather have it pushed up next to an existing interstate?” Both options were projected to cost roughly $2.5 million, though Clyde said that number will likely be closer to $3.5 million. That estimate does not include land acquisition costs, and the Church Street option requires purchasing an 80-foot right of way from the southern end of the Mountain Life Church property and crossing land belonging to the Peck family as well as the Bitners. While the Bitners’ representative said the family would work with the county on that option, allowing surveying work immediately and asking only to be fairly compensated for the land, the evangelical church has indicated a desire to develop more of its land, a proposition Clyde said would be less likely if it loses 80 feet of its property. And the Church Street option appears to have to cut almost directly across the Pecks’ 40 acres. Summit County’s Chief Civil Deputy Attorney Dave Thomas said the county has previously spoken to representatives of the Peck family in the decade or so during which the issue has been discussed. Derrick Radke, the county’s Public Works director, said now that a route option has been chosen, the department will conduct surveying work and coordinate with landowners to fine-tune the alignment. Once the plan is roughly 80% settled, Radke said, it would come back to the County Council for approval. In explaining his vote, Councilor Roger Armstrong said the frontage road option may appear to be a win for protecting open space, but he worried that it might force a much bigger loss in the future if the Bitners were to develop the more than 200 acres of open space abutting their ranch. “If the other option is to develop that land, put houses out there, rather than maintain it as open space, ... I feel like I don’t have a choice other than the Church (Street) option,” Armstrong said. Correction A photo in The Park Record’s Film Festival 2020 Guide, published alongside this edition of the newspaper, included an incorrect photo credit. 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