The Sparks of Class Warfare in Park City

I was sitting in yesterday afternoon’s Park City School Board public meeting on rebuilding the Kearns Campus, when a person made a very emotional plea. She said that she lived in Highland Estates and that last year’s School District tax increase almost caused her to sell her house. She said that if there is another …

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Why Does Affordable Housing Take a Back Seat at Park City Heights?

Park City Heights is the residential housing development behind the movie studio. It is scheduled to have 211 single family homes, 78 of which will be in line with affordable housing requirements. There will also be 28 affordable town houses. According to the Park Record, on Monday the developer was to start selling 100 “market-priced” …

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A Response to Our Post on Teacher Contracts and Baseball

I received a very thoughtful letter from Ed Mulick and Jim Fleming, co-presidents of the Park City Education Association, in relation to my post on recent teacher contracts. Their letter provides information on research and their perspective on salaries. Dear Park Rag, As a teachers for over 25 years and most recently Co-Presidents of PCEA, …

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Recycling Glass is Now Easy

We received word from a neighbor that Recycle Utah had put up glass recycling containers in places around town. I knew that it was possible to take glass into town and recycle it, but I was too lazy I never seemed to go to that much effort. Now its easy: Here are the 4 new locations: 5053 …

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The Details of Affordable Housing Are Tricky

As part of the new “Whole Foods” development across from Ruby Tuesday’s, there is a requirements to build affordable housing. The developer is meeting this requirement by building twenty, 800 sq foot apartments on top of a building in the development. The design is a 1 bedroom, 1 bath, with a kitchenette design. One of the great …

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Feeling Hot Hot Hot

I’ve been doing some research on historical temperatures around Park City to better understand how Park City weather has changed over the past decades. Using NOAA data, the longest continuous set of data from a weather station seems to be from Parley’s Summit. Data goes back about 28 years. The hottest day on record was September …

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