One of the Park City Board of Education’s highest priorities for facilities improvements is to integrate ninth grade into the high school. Officials are eyeing a bond measure on November’s ballot to pay for the proposed improvements, which could cost $120 million or more.
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The Park City School District is on track to ask residents this fall for $100 million or more to pay for a massive facilities upgrade to accomplish what the Board of Education says are clear-cut community priorities.
The primary goals are to integrate ninth grade into the high school, move eighth grade into Ecker Hill Middle School and expand elementary schools to augment preschool and community learning programs.
While nearly everyone elected officials included appeared to agree that the county needs more affordable housing, there was little consensus among the commenters as to whether the proposal benefits the community enough to essentially allow more than 1 million square feet of new development.
The council did not vote and indicated that the issue was a long way from being decided.
Dakota Pacific Real Estate is seeking to build a large-scale residential neighborhood on the southwest side of Kimball Junction at a site that is restricted to technology-related uses.
Project supporters talked about the need for housing in the area and hoped the project would provide the means for more workers to be able to live in the county.
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Park City High School and Treasure Mountain Junior High School were slated to move to remote learning starting Wednesday after COVID-19 case numbers spiked following students’ return from winter break. shows that the high school had 16 active cases of COVID-19 while Treasure Mountain had six. State and federal guidelines recommend shutting a school that has 15 or more active cases.
Superintendent Jill Gildea indicated in a message announcing the move that in-person learning would resume at both schools no later than Monday, Jan. 25. The schools have a combined population of more than 2,000 students.
Gildea said that once in-person learning returns, the district will test every student and staff member at those schools at least once every two weeks, a program known as “test to stay.”
A rendering of one of the proposed park and ride options at Quinn s Junction.
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Park City is moving forward on plans for a park and ride lot at Quinn’s Junction.
But members of the Joint Transportation Advisory Board (or JTAB), at their last meeting, heard that the parking lot, at full capacity, will cause some traffic congestion at the Quinn’s Interchange.
Traffic planners are looking at two options to respond.
When voters approved new transit sales taxes in 2016, that gave the go-ahead for Summit County to plan a park and ride near the Ecker Hill Middle School, while Park City has been working on a similar lot near Quinn’s Junction. The city lot would be bounded on one side by the Highway 40 Frontage Road, and on the other side, by the on-ramp from Highway 248 up to Highway 40.