Courtesy of Utah Wildfire
State and local officials are rescinding fireworks permits, banning activities that could lead to wildfires and vowing to prosecute people who violate restrictions in an effort to hold the line against fire conditions that are more dangerous than normal amid a historic drought.
Multiple blazes have cropped up across the state in recent days, including two near Summit County’s borders. Fire officials tell of bone-dry vegetation, high winds and a water shortage that increases the negative impacts of fighting any fire.
Summit County Fire Warden Bryce Boyer said on Thursday that the county has been relatively unscathed so far. There weren’t any active fires within the county and hadn’t been any since a few escaped planned burns in April. But he said that could change rapidly, and that the unusually dry weather had pushed fire conditions to levels normally seen in the middle of summer.
A service industry worker has started a campaign for the Park City Council, envisioning City Hall launching some sort of financial-assistance program for rank-and-file workers and saying people who live in the Snyderville Basin should be allowed to vote in City Hall elections.
The same debacle plays out each fall in Park City: The ski resorts and other employers recruit tens of hundreds of seasonal workers to staff their businesses through the busy winter months. The employees arrive en masse, jostling with one another for housing in a rental market that doesn’t have nearly enough capacity to meet the need. Many end up squeezing too many roommates into a unit, pony up for places that are difficult to afford on a liftie’s wages or settle for living outside the Park City area and commuting into and out of town.
The problem has become even more pronounced in recent years as property owners chase the profits of the nightly rental market and remove their units from the long- or medium-term housing stock.
A Park City man who runs an investment bank and has lived in the city for a little more than a year on Tuesday started a mayoral campaign. David Dobkin lives in upper Deer Valley and moved to Park City in May of 2020 after having been a part-time resident for years.
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