Susan Alleva of Glenwild suggests that Park City and Summit County hit the pause button on development talks for six months. “None of the projects are ‘urgent’ except to the developer,” she writes.
County must play zone defense
Despite what the developer’s PR push has said, the Highland Flats proposal controversy is not about affordable housing. It IS about zoning. The land is currently zoned rural residential, and the density requirements allow the developers to build three units/homes. They were aware of this zoning when they purchased it. They now want the zoning changed to allow them to build 410 units! There are currently 264 homes/lots in the Highland Estates neighborhood with a minimum size of 2/3 of an acre. The developer wants to add 410 (almost double) to what is currently there on less than 40 acres! A lot of thought, time and energy went into zoning all across the county, determining what each community should look like, and how the land should be used. They considered things like sustainability, safety, growth, traffic, available utilities, etc. If every developer that says “affordable housing” is allowed to re-zone any area they want, what is the point of
COVID-19 may unravel progress
COVID-19 has had an impact worldwide, and working women are far from immune to the effects. Women are overrepresented in fields at a high risk of being disrupted, and most essential workers are women in service-related careers. While women in all lines of work are vulnerable to job loss, those in professional fields are particularly susceptible to the changes brought on by the virus particularly because they have the most to lose.
We’ve made huge advancements in workplace gender equality in the last several decades, but COVID-19 has the potential to undo those positive changes by causing professional women to leave their careers to care for their families.
A matter of principle
I am responding to Mr. Rubinfeld’s letter (“Lessons learned,” Dec. 9-11) regarding my letter (“Answers needed,” Dec. 5-8) asking Mayor Beerman to respond to the numerous questions raised by the mural painted on Main Street last summer. He totally missed my point. My letter had nothing to do with the mural itself or it’s message that is a whole different topic rather it addressed the way in which the painting of the mural was accomplished. There are rules and procedures in place for such events if any individual or group wanted to have a mural painted it would have to go through numerous applications, committee meetings, forms to be completed etc., and yet the mayor (who is supposed to be the face of Park City per the website describing the mayor’s responsibilities) seems to have circumvented all of that. I want to know why he felt he was entitled to do that when everyone else is expected to follow the rules. I would feel the same way regar