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Show ' LETTERS Preserving The Future nearby. Many old houses need restoration or to be torn; down, thereby creating new . living spaces. Why keep" moving outward? Only one reason - that's where the BIG Money is found. Why restore a house or two when a whole valley can be bought and sold or a mountaintop cleared? It won't be long before houses dot the roadside road-side from Park City to Parley's Canyon. Once upon a time even in Los Angeles, there were miles of open spaces separating the towns. Mammoth Lakes in California Cali-fornia recently faced a similar problem and imposed a building moratorium not permanently but long enough to catch their breath and think. Maybe that's not ?such a bad idea here either, sjjj before it's too late. I am reminded of words from a song by Joni Mitchell: "Don't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you've got 'til it's goneThey paved paradise Put up a parking lot." So before they're gone, go see the yellow wildflowers blooming in Deer Valley; the Snyderville farmlands before they're raped, and the lake at Lake Flat while there's still water in it, and if nothing more, preserve them on film or at least in memories... Ted W. Larremore Jr. Dear Editor: I attended the Preservation Preserva-tion Sunday Activities held at the depot and was impressed by the prints of Ken Webb's old photos - some familiar, others rediscovered - Snow Park, where I learned to ski: Miners Hospital where I was born. The emphasis was on preservation - of the past. With the rapidly expanding area, however, maybe the eniphasis should be on preservation - for the future. There exists a gap between bet-ween what should and can be preserved, and can be summed up in a word -money. It is inevitable that the Park City region will continue to grow, but in so doing the very essence of what makes the area attractive attrac-tive may be in jeopardy With the Deer Valley and Lake Flat Developments, the last easily accessible open meadows will be gone, as are Park Meadows and soon Snyderville as well., With, them will go yet more pieces of the openness and sense" of . space once surrounding the town. Even the mountainsides mountain-sides are now being covered with buildings. Obviously when money is concerned, the notion of preservation takes a back seat. Will it include the deer in Deer Valley or the lake in Lake Flat? Probably not. They are not profitable. The poison of Poison Creek will in all likelilhood increase, however. how-ever. Most will argue that development is necessary, which it is. By its very nature, though, unless controlled con-trolled and carefully planned. plan-ned. Tike fire it will consume everything in its path until all fuel or profit is exhausted. ex-hausted. That is what worries wor-ries me the most - Ljw to maintain control when millions mil-lions of dollars and polished sales pitches are fueling the blaze. The developers keep expanding ex-panding into new areas, but what about the . old? The Cozy is razed while numerous numer-ous vacant lots could be used |
