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Show LETTERS Important Point September 26, 1975 The Editor The Park Record Park City, Utah 84060 Dear Sir: In the 96 years of your publication I doubt if the "Record" has published a more significant article bearing on the community's future than that in your September Sep-tember 19 edition discussing the visits of city officials to Vail and Aspen. The article was intelligent and lucid. Most importantly, it conveyed convey-ed a sense that planning for the future was a very real concern to leaders in the community. For those of us who have property in the area it struck a positive and encouraging note. The only thing the factfinding fact-finding report omitted without with-out allusion was the fact that Park City is still an area of great though deep-seated-mineral wealth. As shortages short-ages of minerals grow certain cer-tain conflicts are bound to arise between those who want preserve the aesthetics of the surface at all costs and those who want to develop their mines. Park City, more than any other community in the Rockies, is going to be faced with this. Its rich ores are far from exhaustion and at the same time itpromises to be one of the outstanding' resort communities of the west. Planning should recognize recog-nize the divergent objectives at the outset. Foresighted-ness, Foresighted-ness, such as already displayed dis-played by the study group, plus cooperation on the part of the mine operators, should do much to avoid future problems. prob-lems. Sincerely yours, Gordon D. Stott Pres. Park City Cons. Mines Co. |