Park City at the start of 2020 seemed poised to make progress on longstanding issues like the economy and traffic, continuing the years of work of City Hall and the wider community.
It was clear by the middle of March, though, the agenda for 2020 would change radically. The spread of the novel coronavirus made the year unlike any other in Park City’s history. But even with the sickness impacting all aspects of life, other items rose to prominence. Park City joined the nation in calling for social justice and steps were taken toward hosting another Winter Olympics someday.
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Park City Municipal is reinstuting paid parking citywide on Saturday, Dec. 19, after a long period of free parking in the city over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Credit Park City Municipal Corp.
If there was one good thing to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, free parking in Park City might have been it.
Since the pandemic began affecting Americans in earnest in March, the city has waived parking fees at all of the major parking areas like Main Street and the China Bridge parking garage.
As the winter tourist season reaches its peak, the city will be reintroducing paid parking citywide in an effort to reduce car traffic downtown and encourage people to walk or use alternate methods of transportation to get downtown.
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City Hall collected nearly $1 million in sales taxes in September, a dazzling figure that beat estimates by a wide margin and topped the number from the same month last year, providing a data point that illustrates just how busy Park City was in the early fall.
The municipal government released the figure in the days before a Park City Council meeting that was held on Thursday and included a detailed look at City Hall’s finances nine months after the spread of the novel coronavirus forced an early end to the 2019-2020 ski season and upended the national economy.