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Was Sundance just a cash grab for Park City?
The Park Record announced, “Sundance 2021 brings no movie stars, film moguls or corporate bigwigs to fill hotels.” Is that what it was about? Filling hotels? Seeing stars? Airbnb-ing your second home’s mortgage so you could ski once a year? Enabling corporate takeover of Main Street? Sales Tax revenues? Transient Room Tax? It sounds so …
Park City is for the people who live here.
In some alternative universe, everyone who wanted to live in Park City would be able to live here. I wish it was possible. I wish there would be no impact. I wish traffic wouldn’t be impacted. I wish schools wouldn’t be impacted. I wish our natural resources would not be impacted. In another world, we …
How many people do you want to pack into Park City?
I believe there is inherent guilt in living in the Park City area. We know how great it is and believe everyone should have the opportunity to live here. Somehow, and I’m not sure how, many of us have found a way to live in a place where homes cost $2 million dollars. My 20-something …
We have to stop building in and around Park City where not required. We are getting it wrong from the long view. There are entitlements where a landowner has the right to build something. Thos areas are like the million suqare feet of land approved at the Canyons. There is also land where people propose …
Park City teachers’ kids need to be able to attend their school without exception
Yesterday we wrote that we will lose GREAT Park City teachers unless the Park City School District revamps their new enrollment policy to ensure that teachers’ kids can attend the same school where they teach. These GREAT teachers will go somewhere else in Utah to educate other children — not our children.
The problem with High Valley Micro Transit
I am a supporter of public transportation. In the past five years, I can count on two fingers how often I have driven to a Park City ski resort. I take the bus. It’s the same when I head to Main Street. There is no reason to drive and pay to park when you can …
Summit County taxes are getting too high, and that will start impacting everything
There was a time where taxes around Park City were low. That’s no longer the case. Personally, my home’s property taxes have more than doubled in ten years. I know people across Summit County are feeling the same thing. It’s getting out of control. Yes, I get that there is inflation. inflation should be at …
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