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Show A-14 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, July 25-28, 2020 More dogs on Main TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM By Tom Clyde My crazy cousins might be right Notice is hereby given that The Summit County Board of Adjustment will meet in regular session electronically, via zoom, on Thursday, July 30, 2020 AGENDA Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 6:00 p.m. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 2. **THIS APPLICATION HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN** Public hearing and possible action regarding a variance to reduce the required 100 foot setback from a year round stream, Parcel HL-149, Gil Schrock, Applicant. - Ray Milliner, Principal Planner 3. Public hearing and possible action regarding a driveway slope and an alignment variance, located at 5067 Mountain View, Parcel CMA-113, Breanna Bonsavage, Applicant. - Steve Taylor, Summit County Engineering 4. Public hearing and possible action regarding a driveway setback from an intersection roadway, located at 300 Upper Evergreen Dr., Parcel SU-I-23-AM, Daniel Tracy, Applicant. - Steve Taylor, Summit County Engineering. 5. Approval of Minutes; May 28, 2020 To participate in the Board of Adjustment meeting: Join Zoom webinar: https://summitcountyut.zoom.us/j/94789156082 OR To listen by phone only: Dial 1-301-715-8592 or 1-669-900-9128, Webinar ID: 947 8915 6082 OR To submit written comment please email vgeary@summitcounty.org prior to the meeting Board Items Staff Items Adjourn To view staff reports available after Thursday, July 23, 2020 please visit: http://www.summitcounty.org Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Vicki Geary, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 336-3123. Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session electronically, via zoom, on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 AGENDA Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 4:30 p.m. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications 2. Continued Public hearing and discussion on an application for proposed amendments to the Summit Research Park Development Agreement (aka Dakota Pacific at Kimball Junction); located in the Community Commercial (CC) Zone District, Parcels PCTC 401-AM - PCTC 404-AM AND PCTC-5B-AM, Dakota Pacific Real Estate, Applicant. - Kirsten Whetstone, AICP, County Planner 3. Public hearing and possible action regarding a proposed Preliminary Subdivision Plat for Lot 8, located within the Silver Creek Village Center, Parcel SCVC-8, Matt Lowe, Applicant. - Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner 4. Public hearing and possible action regarding a proposed Final Site Plan for Lot 8, located within the Silver Creek Village Center, Parcel SCVC-8, Matt Lowe, Applicant. - Jennifer Strader, Senior Planner 5. Public hearing and possible action regarding an AMENDED Conditional Use Permit for a proposed expansion to the existing Soaring Wings Montessori School, located at 1580 W Old Ranch Road, Parcel PP-102-F, Bruce King, Applicant. - Tiffanie Robinson, Senior Planner 6. Public hearing and possible action regarding a Conditional Use Permit for a Minor Public Facility in the Rural Residential (RR) Zone, the building would be used as office space for the Mountain Trails Foundation and Summit Lands Conservancy both of which are defined as "quazi-public" in the RR zone, located at 5792 N Highland Dr., Parcel SS-48-1-C-1, Mountain Trails Foundation, Applicant. - Ray Milliner, Principal Planner 7. Public hearing and possible action regarding amendments to the Preserve Phases 1, 2, 2a and 3 plats, the plat amendment is to make technical corrections to the plats, rename West Deer Hill Road to Fawn Court, and clarify square footage requirements on the plat, The Preserve Homeowners Association, Applicant. - Ray Milliner, Principal Planner 8. Approval of minutes; March 10, 2020 Please click the link below to participate in the webinar: https://summitcountyut.zoom.us/j/98189226475 To listen by phone only Dial: US: +1 669 900 9128 or +1 301 715 8592 Webinar ID: 981 8922 6475 If you would like to submit comments on an item not on the agenda, please email vgeary@summitcounty.org by 12:00 p.m. on Monday, July 27, 2020. DRC Updates Commission Comments Director Items Adjourn To view staff reports available after Thursday, July 23, 2020 please visit: www.summitcounty.org Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Vicki Geary, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 336-3123. State sees high turnout in vote-by-mail-only primary Nearly 560,000 Utahns returned ballots in June ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY — Utah saw one of its best primary election voter turnout in years despite issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s primaries were conducted exclusively by mail, though some voters were able to vote at drive-through locations in seven counties. Research suggests voting by mail likely boosted voter turnout compared to 2016, when eight counties barred mail ballots, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The state had 558,000 votes cast in June’s primary, a number that could grow as final ballots are counted, State Elections Director Justin Lee told The Tribune. “We were really concerned (the coronavirus pandemic) would impact turnout significantly, and it didn’t seem to at all,” Lee told The Tribune. “This just blows away any primary we’ve had in the past decade or more.” Republican Party turnout was 67% of its members in this year’s primary, compared to 39% of party members in the 2016 governor’s primary, which saw incumbent governor Gary Herbert beat Jonathan Johnson. Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox won July’s primary in a tight contest with former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman. Cox won 37% of the vote to Huntsman’s 35%, with former Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes netting 21% of the vote. Cox will take on University of Utah professor Chris Peterson, a Democrat, in November’s gubernatorial election. This week I’m looking at a little different audience than usual. They probably aren’t regular readers of this piece, which is fine, but suddenly there is a need to communicate with them. You know who they are. Every family or neighborhood has one. It’s your brother-in-law, a niece’s husband, a next-door neighbor. I’m reaching out to a cousin from Idaho who looks like the Unabomber, and whose annual Christmas letter reads like some kind of manifesto. We all know a guy with crazy ideas about black helicopters and instructions written on the back sides of highway signs. He’s got a pile of guns and enough ammunition stacked up in the basement to overthrow a couple of South American dictatorships. He’s always there with the jumper cables when the car won’t start, but the price of that help is a harangue about some wingnut conspiracy theory. For years we have all tried to avoid getting into political discussions with him. Nobody wants to sit next to him at Thanksgiving dinner. We don’t want to hear about the militia drill in the desert, the latest night-vision scope or the need to fortify our homes against the jack-booted thugs from the over-reaching federal government who will one day kick down the front door and haul us off in unmarked cars. “Well, not my front door,” he says. “Nobody’s coming in my house.” There probably won’t even be football to talk about this Thanksgiving as a diversion. But there he is, immersed in all that ammunition, all that camo and tactical gear, waiting for the black helicopters to arrive, then it’s “go time,” and much as he claims to like you, you have failed to prepare and are going to be on your own. And you dismiss him as crazy, and hopefully harmless. There are no unmarked black helicopters, and the backs of the highway signs are still blank. I assumed all of that was the ranting of a madman with delusions about stuff that was never going to happen. Well, it’s happening. Suddenly my crazy cousin appears to be right. There aren’t black helicopters in Portland. But there are unmarked mini-vans instead. The streets are suddenly occupied with unidentified federal officers of some kind, sent there by El Presidente to take federal control of Portland. People are getting snatched off the streets, without meeting the standard of legal probable cause for arrest, hauled off to federal buildings and detained for a while, then let go. The federal officers are wearing combat camouflage, but other than a label that says “police” on the shirts (which anybody can buy on Amazon), they are without identification as to what agency they are with, who they are or even if they are even real cops with any legal authority. The streets of Portland have become a banana republic. And El Presidente is promising to send the same secret army to Chicago and New York. It’s hard to know what is really happening in Portland. There has been a continuous protest since the death of George Floyd back in May. Depending on the report, it is either a rioting mob destroying property, or a bunch of suburban white kids in dreadlocks doing nude yoga in the streets. It’s somewhere between complete societal collapse and a normal Tuesday night in Portland. There is now the “Wall of Moms” standing be- tween the federal forces and their protesting kids. I think it’s safe to say that the discussion about racial inequality has reached a point where throwing a trashcan through the window of Walgreens is no longer contributing anything meaningful. It’s time to go home. Local and state officials in Oregon have said that the presence of the federal forces has made things significantly worse, escalating a situation that was winding down on its own. They have sued to get the federal forces removed, or at least restricted to their normal function of securing federal buildings. Since the founding of the nation, the security of American cities has been the responsibility of local police departments, and if they need help, as they sometimes do, there are state-controlled National Guard resources. Those are brought in at the request of the local authorities, not over their objections. A fully federalized police force in the streets of American cities is something we just don’t have. This isn’t normal. So while the jack-booted forces cousin Billy Bob has been fearing all his life struck in a direction he had not anticipated, snatching beanie-wearing Portlanders off the streets in those unmarked Dodge mini-vans (actually kind of disappointing compared to the helicopter scenario, but budgets are tight), the net effect is the same. This is not American federalism as we have known it. This is wrong. Now’s your moment, cousin Billy Bob, sound the bugle. Continued from A-13 But the TikTok video shot from behind of the young blonde woman in the sleeveless T-shirt was The One. On her back she had written, “When they open fire stand behind me.” A human shield. She is wiling to stand up — LIKE THAT — for her fellow Black man and woman and child. Because she knows — given her implied white privilege — she won’t be shot first. “That just broke me,” Elizabeth said. “Me too,” I responded. “Me too.” And for a moment we just breathed in the silence between us. What can we do? Elizabeth talked to me about being the kind of upstander who needs to stop when you see a young person of color pulled over by a cop. Just show up. Just be there so the young person knows you are there for them and the officer knows you are watching. And if we see you, a mother pulled over trying to help your child — we will pull over and stay there with you. And then she added ... I am not buying that people don’t know what to do. For example, in the workplace you know whether or not Black talent is being included as a routine part of candidate pools. If you’re paying attention you can see there are no Black people on any of the panels at your annual conference or in senior management or on your board. And I am not talking tokenism here. What’s powerful about this moment is that the concept of Black people as decoration is being challenged more than ever before. And I had to consider that too... There were good intentions for the murals on Main Street here for the 4th of July. Should they have been painted by real Black folks if they said “Black Lives Matter”? Yes. Of course they should have been. It seems obvious — I hope now — to all involved. Whoever vandalized the Main Street art 48 hours later had time and maybe cover — lookouts. Nobody just cracked open a couple of gallons of paint and rolled them down the street to spill out and damage the art. No. They painted carefully over the word Black and over the black fist that formed the letter “I” in lives. The point, as Chief Carpenter said to me, clearly was to erase the Black part so that what remained was Lives Matter. So does it matter so much? I mean if all lives matter and right now is a tough time for Black folks, isn’t it enough to say all lives matter? I mean, brown folks aren’t exactly having a picnic down on the border these days. Here’s what Elizabeth shared with me for clarity. “Imagine you are at the beach with your four children and you look up and they are all in the water together and suddenly you see one of them is drowning. You don’t hesitate to save the drowning child. You love all your children equally, but you immediately help the drowning one.” And that’s it. That is Black Lives Matter. Right now. That is the child who is drowning/dying under the weight of the policeman’s knee and at the hands of the officers who fired the bullets into Breonna and the men who shot and video taped the killing of Ahmaud. And those three examples have all been in the past five months. They are the noisy ones. But there are so many more. We look like the pandemic we are facing. Our initial weak response to COVID is being matched by a series of epidemic, epic failures in leadership. And by attacks daily — across our country — of basic human rights. So this is the long way to say that I am proud to live in a town that wants to address inequity and wants to address it with time and talents and to use the arts to make a statement. A town that has art lovers and human lovers like Jenn and Virginia Solomon who immediately jumped in and said they (and Jenn’s fellow yoga teachers) would pay to repaint the vandalized mural on Main. They knew the controversy afoot about the who and the how it had been created. For them, it was all about the what — what it said and what it meant for folks of color to see that statement painted boldly on the Main Street of this community. That matters. The art matters. And the controversy about the who and the how matters. Lessons learned? There is a war afoot — the new uncivil war — where words alone are enough to ignite people to stop thinking for themselves. A war that forgets we need our neighbors and all the kids at the playground together. ... We are taking to the streets because leadership has failed inside the marble-domed buildings in Elizabeth’s Washington D.C. and inside the vintage brick Marsac Building here in my own Park City. In Portland, they have taken to the streets and the parks because that’s where the fight is. This Sunday, take a moment to consider all the people in the all the parks and how you can join them. Sunday in the Park has been schoolin’ this old white lady about the what is and the what was and pushing me to look for ways about the what can be. She has been boots (or maybe stilettos) on the ground in D.C. And me here ... I have been mostly shoeless at my keyboard. It didn’t take us long to get past the pleasantries and dig into The Work, which is mostly her showing me how the streets are talking right now — if we listen. And she started sending me newspaper articles and stories from The New Yorker and video clips from TV interviews and finally those one-minute snippets of truth from TikTok. TikTok is the Chinese app that just may go public. Its valuation may be close to $180 billion. Most importantly, it is kicking serious ass over the established news sources. It is raw citizen journalism — footage of the most immediate coverage of the streets, shot by the people on the streets. And those videos are chilling. The blackjack-booted, camo-covered and helmeted men grabbing protesters and shoving them into unmarked cars and vans and taking them ... just away. The bloodied faces of protesters who have been hit with rubber bullets and tear gas and night sticks form a montage of brutality you expect to see in the front lines of a war. They are arresting the media. But, on one night, a fully naked woman used her siren self to stop the security folks cold. Her poses on the asphalt have already become the stuff of street performance legend. And one night, at first about eight mothers showed up to link arms together to protest. And the next night, maybe 20. ... And most recently, 200 mothers showed up and linked arms. They chanted “Feds, stay clear. Moms are here.” And then, just a few nights ago in a downtown Portland park, their voices — hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of voices — sang in a lullaby tune, “hands up please don’t shoot me,” to the armed men there. You can see all this on TikTok, an app we thought was about lots of people making up bad dances. And it kinda was, until it turned into an international lifeline for protesters the world over. With its one-minute format, it is quick. And it is the Chinese allowing the reporting on our country that our country refuses to do on itself. That’s the real “Kung Flu” you didn’t see coming, isn’t it Mr. President? Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the founder and director emeritus of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |