The first meeting for the Park City Planning Commission to look at the Treasure application is June 8th. The staff, planning commission, and city council will be getting up to speed on the project until then, and the City hopes the public will too. Lynn Ware Peek has more.
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The Park City Council on Thursday opted to keep two members of the Planning Commission on the panel past the scheduled expiration of their terms, a move meant to keep the current roster intact on an indefinite basis as another round of discussions about the polarizing Treasure development proposal nears.
Mayor Jack Thomas and the City Councilors want Adam Strachan and Laura Suesser to continue to serve on the influential panel. Thomas, a former Planning Commissioner, said it was an “excellent idea” to keep the two. City Councilor Andy Beerman indicated continuity is important. The two Planning Commissioners were not in attendance. The terms were scheduled to expire in July.
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Treasure by early in 2009 had already become the most disputed development idea in Park City since the hard-fought approval of what would be built as Empire Pass a decade earlier.
The Treasure proposal by then had spurred an opposition movement and drawn large crowds to Park City Planning Commission meetings, primarily in opposition, with little apparent progress toward a compromise, or a vote. The proposal, upward of 1 million square feet of development on a highly visible hillside overlooking Old Town on the slopes of Park City Mountain Resort, left some unhappy enough to submit letters to City Hall detailing their displeasure.
Two letters submitted in January of 2009 and forwarded to the Planning Commission in anticipation of a meeting about the development the next month are of special note as the Treasure partnership prepares to return to the panel after a hiatus that has stretched since 2010.
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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
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THINC Park City website, click here.
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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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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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The Treasure development partnership hopes to return to its discussions with the Park City Planning Commission late in the fall, more than four years after the talks were put on hold as City Hall leaders and the partnership attempted to reach some sort of conservation deal.
The partnership involves the Sweeney family, which is the historic owner of the Treasure acreage, and a firm called Park City II, LLC. Each has a 50 percent stake in the partnership.
Pat Sweeney, who has represented the family in the discussions with the Planning Commission, said in a message this week there is lots of material to prepare before the Treasure partnership appears again in front of the panel.
He said the Treasure developers are working with the Park City Planning Department and reacquainting themselves with planning-related issues. The Treasure side “will then crystallize its position on these” followed by comments from the Planning Department, Sweeney said.
“Once this process is complete, this package will be presented to the Planning Commission for consideration,” the message said.
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It was late in the morning on Jan. 17, 2009 when Steve Joyce pressed the send button on an email to City Hall.
Joyce’s message went to Katie Cattan, the planner who was assigned to the disputed Treasure development proposal at the time. It was one of many messages officials received during one of the peaks in the discussions about the project, envisioned as upward of 1 million square feet of development on land overlooking Old Town along the route of the Town Lift. The opposition by then had already spent nearly five years stressing issues like traffic and the size of the proposed buildings as reasons the project should be rejected as designed.
Joyce added his take on Treasure, which then was referred to as Treasure Hill. His message and others were attached to a report about Treasure released in anticipation of a Feb. 11, 2009 meeting of the Park City Planning Commission. He mentioned traffic and the look of the project in his message. He said the Park City community was “already plagued” with traffic, large retailers like Walmart and the loss of the image of a mining town.
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