The spat between the county council and Summit Land Conservancy highlights a problem over the Osguthorpe Farm

Summit Land Conservancy is trying to buy the Osguthorpe Farm and place a conservation easement on the property. That sounds good, but it appears to cost over $14 million to do that. We always like to look at the alternative. The Osguthorpe Farm is zoned as Rural Residential. This means that with base de

Yesterday I was trying to look up zoning related to the Osguthorpe Farm. The County has a nice interactive map that allows you to view the zoning of a parcel of land. However, when I browsed there I saw this:  

Over the past few years we’ve written about why hosting another Olympics may not be a good idea. We cited an Outside magazine article that referenced the Olympic’s environmental damage, cost overruns, and money spent that could be used for other purposes. We’ve talked about Denver and why it rejected the games over traffic congestion …

In some ways I hate property taxes. A property tax means you don’t truly own your property. If you don’t pay your property tax, your house is taken away. The flip side is that property taxes provide a stable source of revenues for our city, county, and schools. So we understand why they are instituted, …

Somewhere in Arizona, former Park City School District Superintendent Dr Ember Conley is likely laughing. After being run out on a rail, her replacement, Dr. Jill Gildea is set to take over this fall. Gildea will make $65,000

The School bond failure of 2015 signaled a low point for the Park City School District. For the first time in recent memory, the school district could not convince the populace to approve a bond for school needs. Out of those ruins, we’d hoped that the district had grown stronger. We hoped they had found …

Some people have called it the Crazy 8’s. Others have described it as a disaster waiting to happen. What is that? The Kilby Road “improvements” between Fresh Market and Ecker Hill Middle School. The road appears to be a series of concrete S curves built down Kilby Rd, with the intent to make it easier …

On Friday morning at 6:15 AM I pulled to a stop behind a car at the four-way stop by the Jeremy Ranch store. I was about to head through the construction on Homestead road that stretches underneath I-80. That’s when the car in front of me proceeded to enter the wrong lane of traffic. The …

You should give the Ecker Hill Park and Ride a shot. It just may make your ski day even better.