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Show B-1 HAVE A COOL PHOTO? Share it to #parkcitypics or @parkrecord on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook and we’ll run the week’s best in print. REDFORD-PRODUCED DOCUMENTARY DELVES INTO ONGOING FIGHT OVER PUBLIC LANDS WAY WE WERE, A-7 COLUMNS, A-8 THE END OF THE GREAT TRAIN FANTASY AMY ROBERTS HAS GRATITUDE FOR GINSBURG Park Record. The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Wed/Thurs/Fri, September 23-25, 2020 Serving Summit County since 1880 Mining-era relic lost in small blaze | Music in the park Vol. 140 | No. 67 $1.00 County claims Hideout move violates order Monday filing is latest legal jab meant to counter town’s efforts to annex acreage near Park City ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record COURTESY OF THE PARK CITY FIRE DISTRICT idea of what the needs were,” Young said. “The goal of the program is to provide relief to as many families as we can as quickly as we can.” Katie Wright, executive director of the Community Foundation, said the initiative will give the area’s nonprofits breathing room to deal with the community’s needs ahead of a winter season that could bring increased hardship. “I felt an incredible moment of relief because I know that people are having really big challenges in our community, and I think we all know that we’re sort of holding our breath for the flu season,” Wright said, recalling the moment she heard the money would be made available. “We’re constantly measuring the tension between addressing people’s urgent, current needs and also being sure that we can be there for people in January, February, March just like we have been for this summer.” The Community Foundation has granted around $3 million this year, Wright said, including more than $1.3 million that went to local nonprofits through its Community Response Fund since the pandemic took hold in March. It raised $1 million for that fund in less than a month after COVID hit. Summit County is accusing Hideout of violating a court order to cease annexation activities, the county’s legal response to the town’s latest attempt to annex hundreds of undeveloped acres in Richardson Flat. Hideout has repealed or rescinded the documents that undergirded its previous annexation attempt and passed new versions of them in what it’s characterizing as a new, separate annexation from the one it initiated in July and later abandoned. The new annexation includes 350 acres in Richardson Flat, compared to 655 in the original attempt. The developers hoping to build on the land said they opted to downsize the project size to avoid fighting simultaneous legal battles with Park City and Summit County. In court filings Monday, the county contends that the two annexations are substantively the same and that a 4th District Court injunction bars the town from pursuing Summit County lands related to the previous annexation attempt. The county also says the town’s agreement with the developer that accompanies the latest attempt is “identical” to the previous agreement, which formed the basis for the court’s order, and that the town’s latest “machinations” are an attempted end-run around the court’s order. Both annexation attempts are meant “to unilaterally shoehorn a massive commercial development into a hotly contested corner of Summit County,” the filing states. Neither the town’s attorney nor the trial lawyers it hired to combat the litigation from Summit County immediately responded to requests for comment. Hideout is attempting to annex undeveloped land in Richardson Flat so that developer Nate Brockbank can build a new town center there, including commercial services town officials say Hideout residents need and have limited access to. Hideout is in Wasatch County and the land is in Summit County. The move would have historically required Summit County’s approval, but the state Legislature passed a law in March allowing this type of annexation, legislation that has since been repealed. Summit County and Park City — which recently joined a separate suit against the developers — have long planned the land to be used for very low density residential development or protected as open space. Hideout officials say regional planning has not provided the commercial resources like grocery stores and gas stations that the town’s current population needs, much less for the population boom that is expected as the thousands of approved residential units around the Jordanelle Reservoir begin to be built in coming years. Officials from Summit and Wasatch counties dispute Please see Aid to be, A-2 Please see County, A-2 Firefighters on Saturday morning work the scene of a fire that destroyed a silver mining-era structure in Deer Valley. A campfire grew out of control, the Park City Fire District says. A campfire spread out of control, destroying the White Pine Cabin TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD JAY HAMBURGER Singer and songwriter Jennifer Rae, right, performs at the Miners Park on Main Street Sunday afternoon during a pedestrian-only day. Attendees gathered along the sidewalk and throughout the small park to enjoy the free music. The Park Record A fire destroyed a silver mining-era structure in Deer Valley on Saturday, the Park City Fire District said, indicating a campfire grew out of control before consuming the building known as the White Pine Cabin. Bob Zanetti, the deputy fire chief at the Park City Fire District, said two men spent the night at the location and started a campfire in the morning. The fire spread out of control to the White Pine Cabin, he said. The Fire District received a report at just before 8 a.m. from mountain bikers who saw the fire. The bikers attempted to extinguish the flames before the firefighters arrived, Zanetti said. The Fire District was at the scene for approximately three hours as the fire was extinguished and the firefighters ensured no hotspots remained. The fire burned an approximately 144-square-foot area, he said. The campers were at the scene when the firefighters arrived, but further information was not immediately available about them. The location is uphill from the Empire Canyon Lodge and just off the Orion ski run at Deer Valley Resort. The area in the vicinity of the location of the fire was important during Park City’s silver-mining days. There are well-known relics from the mining era running from the higher elevations of Empire Canyon to the lower ones, offering a history lesson of sorts to skiers, hikers and mountain bikers over the years. Park City was founded as a silver-mining camp in the 19th century. The industry drove the Park City economy for decades, with the various mining firms putting up buildings necessary for the operations in the mountains surrounding Old Town. The silver-mining industry eventually deteriorated with a steep drop in prices of the precious metal and by the middle of the 20th century Park City’s economy had tanked. The ski industry later rose to become the economic driver. The silver-mining heritage, though, is now seen as something that sets Park City apart from some of the competing mountain resorts in North America. Park City leaders and the influential preservation community in recent decades have pushed to protect the deteriorating buildings from the mining era. The fire at the White Pine Cabin is another dramatic episode involving a mining-era structure or building. It occurred shortly after a move that was widely seen as a triumph in the preservation efforts with Deer ValPlease see Fire, A-2 2 sections • 20 pages Classifieds .............................. B-6 Editorial.................................. A-9 Restaurant Guide.................... B-8 Weather .................................. B-2 Community Foundation to dole out $1M in federal aid CARES Act funding aimed at helping families most affected by the coronavirus pandemic ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record A $1 million grant program aimed to help families who have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic hopes to get the money to area nonprofits by the end of this year, officials said. The Park City Community Foundation will administer the program and dole out grants to nonprofits, while the funds come from federal CARES Act disbursements sent to Summit County. Deputy Summit County Manager Janna Young, who has been coordinating the county’s CARES Act programming, said the county chose the Community Foundation because of its connections in the community. “We felt they would be able to provide the funds broadly to the needs of our community and, due to their relationships, they would have a good Neighbor vs. neighbor Dedicated for dedication in PCMR lot project? Marsac Building told divisions have formed over resort proposal JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Sherie Harding owns property on Three Kings Drive close to the Park City Mountain Resort parking lots, one of numerous owners on or close to the perimeter of the lots. Like many others who live or own properties close to the PCMR lots, Harding is closely monitoring the talks about a major development proposal. Harding, though, is worried that the people with properties close to different sections of the expansive lots are not coordinating as they craft their concerns about the project. In a late-August letter to the Park City Planning Department, Harding contended the discussions have pitted “neighbors against neighbors.” The department released the letter and other correspondences as the Park City Planning Commission readied for another meeting about the proposal scheduled on Wednesday, Sept. 23. “It is becoming apparent that neighborhoods are working against each other. This may not be a conscious effort, but it is what is happening,” the twopage correspondence says. Harding describes some of the input regarding the number of parking stalls that will be built in garages at various locations within the project as she outlined her argument. The layout of the parking and the number of stalls could have greater impact on some nearby properties than others, she says. Please see Divisions, A-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Jan Wilking poses for a photo with a plaque honoring him at the Silver Creek Water Reclamation Facility. The facility, completed last year, was dedicated to Wilking during a ceremony Monday. Wilking has served on the board of the Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District for more than four decades, which according to the plaque makes him the “longest continuous-serving public official in Park City and Summit County history.” CORONAVIRUS TRACKER Summit County Utah Known cases: 955 Hospitalizations: 54; Deaths: 1 Known cases: 65,044 Hospitalizations: 3,550; Deaths: 443 DATA AS OF SEPT. 22 SOURCE: UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH |