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July 14, 2016 · 12:06 PM

Park City, in crucial report, questions Treasure numbers

City Hall has issued a report questioning the square footage the Treasure partnership wants approved on a hillside overlooking Old Town, a wrinkle in the long-running discussions about the project that could have broad implications for the developers.

The Park City Planning Department drafted the report in anticipation of a meeting of the Planning Commission scheduled on Wednesday, July 13. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Santy Auditorium at the Park City Library.

The amount of square footage proposed by the Treasure developers, just more than 1 million square feet, has long been one of the sticking points between the developers, Planning Commissions over the years and project critics. The Sweeney family in the 1980s secured development rights for the Treasure land and nearby parcels, but the detailed numbers have been disputed by the various sides based on their own calculations. The Treasure parcel is located just west of Old Town roughly along the route of the Town Lift.

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Park City, in crucial report, questions Treasure numbers

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July 13, 2016 · 6:11 AM

Bruce Erickson interview on KPCW

On today’s Local News Hour, host Leslie Thatcher speaks to Summit County Development director Pat Putt and Health Department Director Rich Bullough about the crack down on tiny houses. Park City Planning Director Bruce Erickson discusses Wednesday’s Park City Planning Commission agenda.

See link below to the KPCW interview:

http://kpcw.org/post/local-news-hour-tuesday-july-12-2016

 

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June 17, 2016 · 9:18 PM

Treasure deal, once seen as breaking logjam, now all but abandoned

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Developers are no longer interested in moving long-held rights off hillside

Jay Hamburger THE PARK RECORD

Treasure had already confounded Park City officials by the spring of 2011, seven years after the developers submitted plans to build a project involving upward of 1 million square feet on a hillside overlooking Old Town.

City Hall, in an effort to reach a solution after an impasse in the project talks, crafted a program that would allow the Treasure partnership to shift a portion of the long-standing development rights attached to the hillside to another location. Some at the time saw the program, known as transferring development rights, or TDRs, as a logjam-breaking conservation move that could result in a Treasure deal that located much of the development off the highly visible hillside.

A deal was never reached. Many of those discussions were held in private between City Hall officials and the Treasure partnership. The issues that prevented an agreement are not known, but it is likely there could have been sticking points regarding the value of the Treasure development rights and the eventual location of the rights if they were shifted elsewhere.

It now seems almost certain that a conservation deal will not happen. The Treasure partnership earlier in June relaunched discussions with the Park City Planning Commission on a project that has been under consideration on and off since 2004. The most recent hiatus provided time for the ultimately unsuccessful conservation negotiations.

For the rest of this article please visit the Park Record at:

http://www.parkrecord.com/park_city-news/ci_30028566/treasure-deal-once-seen-breaking-logjam-now-all

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June 14, 2016 · 12:21 PM

Residents Voice Concerns Over Treasure Hill Project

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Residents Voice Concerns Over Treasure Hill Project

Over 100 people gathered at the Jim Santy Auditorium on Wednesday night to hear the history of the Treasure Hill project and how the schedule for looking at the application will lay out over the next year or so. While no specific conditional use permit was looked at, there was time given for ample public comment. Lynn Ware Peek has more.

For the complete story from KPCW visit the line below:

http://kpcw.org/post/residents-voice-concerns-over-treasure-hill-project

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June 9, 2016 · 11:48 PM

As Treasure returns, critics seize on hillside ‘monstrosity’

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Opposition quickly reinvigorated as lengthy hiatus in talks end

Jay Hamburger, THE PARK RECORD

The Treasure partnership on Wednesday night restarted its talks with the Park City Planning Commission, drawing a large crowd of opponents who seized on long-held concerns during the first hearing about the project since 2010.

The Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday — shifted from the Park City Council chambers at the Marsac Building to the more spacious Santy Auditorium at the Park City Library to accommodate a larger crowd — drew a little more than 100 people. The crowd appeared to be jammed with Treasure critics, and testimony was heavily weighted against the project.

It was an important meeting for the Planning Commission, the Treasure side and the crowd as it marked the beginning of what is likely the final round of talks between the developers and the Planning Commission in a discussion that has stretched on and off since 2004. The Planning Commission was not prepared on Wednesday to delve into the details of the Treasure proposal, which involves approximately 1 million square feet on a hillside overlooking Old Town along the route of the Town Lift.

“The same basic monstrosity,” Brian Van Hecke, the leader of a Treasure opposition group called Treasure Hill Impact Neighborhood Coalition, said during the hearing as he compared the project to other iterations considered in the past.

Van Hecke said he earlier had faith a compromise would be reached, but none was negotiated and the project remains as it was. He said a new study of Treasure-related traffic is needed, contended that the project would be a sprawling complex and said there would be “massive scarring” of the hillside.

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http://www.parkrecord.com/park_city-news/ci_29997238/treasure-returns-critics-seize-hillside-monstrosity

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May 26, 2016 · 12:12 AM

Treasure talks, long ago, offer clues into Park City official’s sentiments

bruceFormer Planning Commissioner now holds key City Hall role in project

The Treasure developers more than a decade ago, on Jan. 12, 2005, were in front of the Park City Planning Commission to discuss what had already become a hotly contested proposal for a project on a hillside overlooking Old Town.

It had been nearly a year since the developers submitted paperwork at City Hall for the project. The Planning Commission was in the early stages of what would become years of discussions about Treasure. There was only moderate progress over that time before a lengthy hiatus in the talks that is only now about to end as the developers plan to return to the Planning Commission with Treasure.

On that night, the Planning Commission discussed many points, including that the proposal stemmed from an overall 1980s development approval secured by the Sweeney family involving the Treasure acreage itself and nearby parcels of land. As part of the negotiations that led to the 1980s approval, the Treasure side agreed to position development toward the bottom of the acreage and set aside the upper land as open space.

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http://www.parkrecord.com/park_city-news/ci_29934005/treasure-talks-long-ago-offer-clues-into-park

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April 21, 2016 · 1:19 PM

Treasure Mountain: Pros & Cons

The controversial Treasure Mountain Project is back on Park City’s Planning Commission agenda after a nearly six year hiatus.   Pat Sweeney, one of the three brothers who own half the development, says the project hit every target Park City Council set for the development, and “not just the target, but the bullseye.”   He says the project will be 150,000 sq ft of development above ground on a five million sq ft property, so there will be plenty of “honest to goodness” open space on the land above Old Town.   However, Brian Van Hecke, with the opposition group THINC Park City, says the “huge, massive” development will significantly change the look and feel of historic Old Town Park City forever.  Both men recently appeared on The Local News Hour with Leslie Thatcher.  You can hear their interviews below:

http://kpcw.org/post/treasure-mountain-pros-cons

Treasure Mountain website, click here.

THINC Park City website, click here.

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April 21, 2016 · 7:59 AM

Treasure opposition sees a ‘giant Emerald City’ above Old Town

Group disappointed the development has returned with same designs

Jay Hamburger THE PARK RECORD
Posted: 04/15/2016 04:03:31 PM MDT

The Treasure partnership has returned to City Hall.  The Treasure opposition also intends to return.

Treasure over the past decade became the most polarizing development proposal in Park City since the 1990s-era discussions about the project that was built as Empire Pass. After a hiatus that lasted upward of six years, the Treasure partnership recently indicated it wanted to re-engage the Park City Planning Commission with the project and has outlined a timeline toward a desired panel vote in September.

The partnership will return to the Planning Commission with the same project designs as the ones under consideration previously. There were concerns in the neighborhood and among some of the Planning Commissioners at the time about the proposal.

The Treasure opposition group quickly indicated it remains concerned with the project. The group, known as the Treasure Hill Impact Neighborhood Coalition, or THINC, has a core group of members who live close to the project site and has long said people from outside the neighborhood are also involved. The group formed during the earlier round of discussions about Treasure, attending meetings and operating a website. There was little public activity by the group during the lengthy hiatus in the Treasure talks.

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http://www.parkrecord.com/park_city-news/ci_29772457/treasure-opposition-sees-giant-emerald-city-above-old

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April 13, 2016 · 12:36 PM

Treasure developers return to Park City after lengthy hiatus

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City Hall pledges a ‘fair review’ of the long-disputed proposal

The Treasure partnership has formally asked City Hall to restart its discussions about the controversial project after a hiatus that has stretched for upward of six years, a move that will rattle both supporters and opponents at a moment when there is not another overriding development dispute in Park City to diffuse the attention.

Pat Sweeney, who represents his family’s side of the partnership, sent a letter to City Hall on Friday requesting that Treasure be brought back to the Park City Planning Commission.

The letter, addressed to Planning Director Bruce Erickson, indicates the partnership will proceed with the development application that was under consideration last in 2010. The application itself dates to early 2004. The letter outlines a schedule of meetings starting as early as April 27 and ending with a Planning Commission vote on Sept. 28. The panel is not bound by the schedule.

“It feels right. We’ve looked at alternatives, we talked at length with the city,” Sweeney said in an interview, adding, “It’s time to get on with it. It just is.”

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http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_29757876/treasure-developers-return-park-city-after-lengthy-hiatus

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April 13, 2016 · 12:33 PM

Treasure developers craft intense timeline toward momentous vote

They want the Planning Commission to make a decision late in September

The Treasure partnership, preparing to return to City Hall for talks about the disputed project after a hiatus that has lasted since 2010, has requested Park City officials proceed on a schedule that starts in April and finishes with a vote late in September.

It would be an intense timeline for the partnership, City Hall staffers and the Park City Planning Commission, which is the panel that will eventually be asked to cast what will be a momentous vote on the project.

It is not clear whether the figures on the City Hall side will agree to the schedule outlined by the Treasure partnership. Members of the Planning Commission, especially, could argue more time is needed to review a project of Treasure’s breadth upward of 1 million square feet of development in a highly visible location overlooking Old Town.

“We’ll take all the time we need. Just because the Sweeneys want to proceed along a certain timeline doesn’t mean we’ll necessarily do that,” Adam Strachan, the chairman of Planning Commission, said.

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Treasure developers craft intense timeline toward momentous vote

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