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Show Worlc resumes on modified Aerie lionise Park City s sKyline has been altered once again. Construction has resumed on Mike Troup's controversial house atop Masonic Hill, which is now six feet shorter than it was when the city issued a stop work order in mid-July. According to Chief Building Inspector Inspec-tor Ron Ivie, a building permit was issued for the Troup house, which is part of the Aerie Development, on Sept. 16. A complete building permit had never been issued for the site, he said. The work done on the structure had been under a footings and foundation permit The city issued the stop work order on the house because construction had progressed beyond what the footings and foundation permit allowed, according ac-cording to Ivie". Additionally, the city discovered that a surveying error had placed the house off the contours on the original plan and the structure was more than four feet over the stipulated zoning height. The zoning ordinance, according to City Attorney Tom Clyde, holds for a height of 28 feet plus a five-foot extension for gabled roofs, or a maximum height of 33 feet for a single story. Troup's house was almost 40 feet high before it was restructured, Clyde said. The Aerie Development Company entered into an agreement with the city on Dec. 16, 1981 which would limit ridgeline building on the hill to a single story. Troup's house meets the technical guidelines for a single story structure, although it is not typical, according to Ivie. The city's agreement with Aerie was the outcome of a suit filed by Park City Municipal Corporation against Elwood Neilsen who previously owned the land. The suit was based on an ordinance which forbade grading of hillsides as steep as Masonic Hill. Neilsen countersued on the basis that the city ordinance was not enforced on other projects. However, a settlement was struck out-of-court by Neilsen and the city. The impetus for the settlement, according to city officials, was that Neilsen also owned the land where the belt route was planned. Part of the agreement that would allow the construction of the belt route gave Neilsen the allocation of 88 lots in what is now the Aerie project The arrangement also stipulated that Neilsen would never have to go back to the Planning Commission, which had refused to okay his original proposal. When Aerie Development Company purchased the hilltop land from Nielsen, the conditions of the settlement settle-ment passed with the deeds. |
