Park City on Tuesday hosted an open house designed to provide information about a wide range of municipal projects and programs, but the event took on greater meaning with the gathering becoming among the largest City Hall-organized events held in person in the more than a year.
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City Hall wants to execute a public-relations effort to outline the concept to build a facility along the S.R. 248 entryway to store soils containing contaminants from Park City’s silver-mining era, outlining a 60-day effort designed to explain the idea as many Parkites appear to be concerned about the prospects of a project.
Officials have taken steps to build what is known as a repository on municipal land located at the S.R. 248-Richardson Flat Road intersection. Soils containing contaminants like lead and arsenic would be stored in the facility. The repository would ultimately have space for 140,000 cubic-yards of materials and have an estimated construction cost of approximately $2.7 million.
The Park City Police Department on Saturday, May 8, received at least three complaints from businesses in the Main Street core. In one of the cases, a customer was outside “causing a scene,” according to department logs.
Park City has cleared the land where the municipal government wants to build an arts and culture district stretching inward from one of the corners of the intersection of Kearns Boulevard and Bonanza Drive. The Park City Planning Commission, with a new member, is expected to eventually consider an application to develop the district. Tanzi Propst/Park Record
The Park City Council recently confirmed the appointment of a telecommunications industry figure to the Park City Planning Commission and the reappointment of an attorney to the influential panel.
William Johnson joins the Planning Commission after living in Park City for nearly 30 years while Sarah Hall will serve another term. The terms expire in July of 2024.
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City Hall is seeking bids from firms interested in winning a contract to build the first cell of a controversial facility officials have proposed along the S.R. 248 entryway where the government wants to store soils contaminated from the silver-mining era.
The municipal government released the request for bids early in the week amid an opposition movement that aims to stop the project. Bids are due May 18. The bid request indicates work would include the cell construction and encompass tasks like excavation and hauling.
David Everitt, a deputy Park City manager, said the timing of the request for bids was designed to start construction of the first cell as early as July. A start date in that month was initially based on a timeline for the beginning of excavation work for an arts and culture district City Hall plans to develop stretching inward from the intersection of Kearns Boulevard and Bonanza Drive. Much of the soil that is excavated from the arts distri