We are writing to oppose the current short-sighted plan for the city’s 5-acre site in Bonanza Park. After a decade of deliberation following the city’s $19.5 million purchase of the site is the best idea really to surround an interior green space with 3-story buildings and one 4-story one? The green space is within the towering apartments and will not be seen, let alone used, by the community.  When adding the purchase price, lost revenue from displaced businesses, consultant fees, and ever-escalating construction costs, the final price per unit for these apartments is staggering. Beyond the financial folly, we’re at a loss to square a dense development benefiting the few with the previously promised district benefiting the whole community. To see what this space could be, please drive over to Heber City any Thursday evening to see what a centrally located open space can look like. Their free summer concerts draw as many as 2,500 community members to enjoy music, a farmer’s market, playgrounds, with dozens of mom-and-pop entrepreneurs dishing out food at family friendly prices. It builds community for the many instead of the few. In the past, our community stepped up to protect Park City from bad development ideas at the Osguthorpe (aka McPolin) barn and meadow, Treasure Hill and Bonanza Flat.  Is this the city leadership group that turns its back on the whole community and covers the last best open space in town in high rises benefiting a relative few? Hope not. Carol Murphy and Larry Warren Park City The post Community space? appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less