Entries Published On December, 2016
Could Park City and Summit County do more to keep our air clean?
Most people agree that idling vehicles are bad for our community. Every year, it seems, the Park Record comes out with an article about Park City upping enforcement of anti-idling laws. Currently Park City and Summit County have laws that say you can’t idle for more than one minute. It used to be three minutes, but …
A reminder why to put the safety bar down on the lift
Yesterday in Colorado, a mother and her two daughters fell from a ski lift at a small resort in Colorado. The 20 foot fall into snow killed the mother and seriously injured her 9 and 12 year old daughters. While the official cause of the fall has not been released, witnesses of the accident said the …
Would a few signs on Highway 248 lower Park City’s collective blood pressure and make traffic more efficient?
This morning I drove Highway 248 to get to Deer Valley. As usual, traffic had backed up and the road rage was starting. What’s the problem? The merge from two lanes to one lane right before the narrows going into Park City. You had some people getting in the left lane way before the merge. You …
Did the restaurant you are going to tonight in Park City have any health inspection issues?
A few years ago, we used to make a trip to the Summit County Health Department to review paper restaurant inspections. About a year ago, the health department began putting inspections online. We view it as a great service provided by the county. Having watched our share of Kitchen Nightmares, we know that running a …
How much do Park City teachers and administrators make?
In an earlier story. We had made a comment that $82,000 could pay for two Park City teachers. A reader commented that it was more like one teacher, due to benefits. We weren’t really sure what Park City School District personnel made, so we checked out Utah’s Right to Know website, which shows government employee …
Amazon charging tax in Utah as of January 1st
PSA… If you are going to buy something big from Amazon, you may want to consider buying it before the beginning of next year. According to Fox 13, Amazon will begin charging sales tax in Utah as of January 1. While legally, residents were supposed to pay this tax independently, this change forces the tax …
$82,000 for art in the new Transit Center?
We were doing research after yesterday’s visit to the Kimball Junction Transit Center. We happened upon the following document on Summit County’s website. It appears the County has agreed to pay up to $82,000 for artwork for the new Kimball Junction Transit Center. We freely admit that we are not art aficionados and we’ve have …
This is what you get for $3 million in Summit County?
Spurred by Tom Clyde’s great column in this week’s Park Record, I just had to visit the new Kimball Junction Transit Center. The Transit Center is the building and bus stop behind the library in Kimball Junction. While Tom had a number of good points about how many people will won’t use it, I have a fundamentally …
Only in Park City ….
So, it’s -7 degrees and we are walking our dog at the Run-a-Muck this morning. We are just starting out and meet a woman, finishing her dog walk. She wishes us luck and tells us a secret. “You just have to keep a bag of your dog’s poop in your pocket and that’ll keep your hands warm.” …
Dangerous precedent set with height exception for Woodward at Gorgoza
Last week, the Summit County Council voted by a 3-2 margin to approve a height exception for an indoor recreation facility at Gorgoza. In most of the Snyderville Basin, the maximum height of a building allowed is 32 feet. The council allowed a 45.5 feet tall building, adjacent to Kilby Road by the sledding hill …
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