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Show EDITORIAL Annual Melodrama With the coming of autumn and the approaching winter ski season, an annual melodrama is unfolding the plight of the newly-arrived resort-related worker searching the streets for a place to stay. This year, the story is more grim than ever. In spite of the large losses sufferred last year by operators of nightly rental housing, more and more apartments formerly rented by the month are being changed to nightly rentals. Recently, a Record employee experienced this trend first hand when his apartment was sold and he was told to leave to make way for nightly rentals. Only through extreme good fortune was he able to find another place to live in Park City and avoid the prospect of commuting from Heber to cover the news. It seems clear that the situation is not going to improve on its own. Unless private developers are encouraged to provide M housing or the city takes action on its own, the problem can do nothing but get worse. In an interview last month, 1 planning commission Co-chairman Bob Wells said he hoped to initiate a study of possible city-subsidized housing as soon as the commission's workload eases. Last week, however, the commission talked about reviewing in detail the city's Land Management Code for a tune-up and overhaul. This is a worthy and needed task,, but we hope a study of the housing problem does not get lost in the shuffle. |
