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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 26-29, 2020 A-3 The Park Record City Beat CITY EDITOR: JAY HAMBURGER 649–9014 EXT. 15711 | Citynews@parkrecord.com Developer fights the traffic PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO Traffic was heavy but flowing on a day in February of 2017 at the intersection of Park Avenue and Deer Valley Drive, close to the Park City Mountain Resort parking lots. The Park City Planning Commission is heavily discussing traffic amid the talks about a major development proposal on the PCMR lots. Traffic is a key concern. PCMR project could involve a roundabout JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record One intersection on the perimeter of the Park City Mountain Resort parking lots could someday have a roundabout. At another intersection, there could eventually be a stoplight. The possibilities were included in a set of recommendations presented to the Park City Planning Commission on Wednesday night amid the continuing discussions regarding a Provo developer’s concept for the PCMR lots. The Planning Commission held a lengthy meeting that was centered on traffic and transportation, two topics that are typically some of the most difficult during talks about major projects in Park City. The Planning Commission and the PEG Companies side appeared to make limited progress during the Wednesday meeting, and the sides are expected to spend a significant amount of time at future meetings on the topics. The developer’s side at the meeting provided a list of recommendations designed to reduce the impact of traffic the project is expected to generate on the streets surrounding the PCMR lots. The streets are already some of the busiest in Park City during the ski season, leaving the developer with the difficult task of crafting an overall concept to manage the traffic. Two of the most ambitious ideas presented on Wednesday involve intersections along Sil- ver King Drive. The recommendations call for a roundabout to be built at the intersection of Silver King Drive and Empire Avenue while a stoplight would be put at the Silver King Drive-Lowell Avenue intersection. Roundabouts are typically seen as allowing a better flow of traffic at intersections when compared to a stoplight, providing drivers an opportunity to move from road to road without the stop-go cycle of a stoplight. The two intersections occupy crucial locations on the northern perimeter of the lots. Much of the traffic headed to and from PCMR today travels through at least one of the intersections as drivers enter and leave the lots. Many of the drivers at the two locations are headed toward or from Park Avenue and Deer Valley Drive, the two streets that Please see Traffic, A-4 World-Class Urological Care You Can Trust Right Here in Your Community Dr. Joshua Stern joins Intermountain as the Chief of Urology at Park City Hospital. He was formally the director of Endourology and the Kidney stone program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, where he developed an integrated, high volume kidney stone center that focused on innovative approaches to endoscopic kidney stone surgery. With grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Stern was one of the first to report on the interplay between the gut microbiome and kidney stones. Dr. Stern is a fellowship trained, board-certified urologist specializing in the treatment of complex kidney stones and kidney tumors. Joshua Stern, MD Urology His interests & expertise includes: • Adrenal cancer • Kidney cancer • Bladder cancer • Prostate cancer • Kidney stones • Prostate enlargement (BPH) • Blood in urine (Hematuria) • Hydronephrosis • Urinary retention • Vasectomy • Minimally invasive surgery • Laparoscopic surgery • Robotic assisted laparoscopic surgery PARK CITY SPECIALTY CLINIC 900 Round Valley Dr, Ste 200 | Park City, UT 84060 435-658-7400 | ParkCityClinic.org Out of puzzles? Missing some of your favorite places? We’ve turned some of our iconic photographs into puzzles for the whole family to enjoy. ORDER ONE TODAY! www.parkrecord.com/puzzle |