I am a Park City resident writing in opposition to the proposed 5-Acre Site redevelopment at the southwest corner of Kearns Boulevard and Bonanza Drive. I understand the Park City Planning Commission’s role is to evaluate this application against the Land Management Code rather than to set po licy, so I will address the three items before you. Building height. As presented at the June 24 site visit, six of the seven proposed buildings exceed the 35-foot zoned maximum. The applicant’s stated justifications — sloped ground, three floors not fitting under 35 feet, gable roofs for “Park City character” — are explanations of the design’s ambitions, not findings that the code’s criteria for an exception have been met. A building program that cannot fit inside the zoning envelope is a building program that is too large for the parcel. I would ask the commission to require, on the record, a specific finding for each building as to why the exception is warranted, and to require the view-impact renderings you requested in June before any vote. The parcel sits in one of the last places in the core of town with an open view toward Park City Mountain and Deer Valley. Once that is built into, it does not come back. Traffic impact study. The Kearns and Bonanza intersection is already the pinch point of this town. I ask the commission to make the study’s trip-generation assumptions public and to test them against actual regional commuting patterns rather than generic multifamily rates, and to treat any transportation demand management measures as enforceable conditions with monitoring and consequences, not aspirations. If the assumptions do not hold, the traffic is permanent and the town absorbs it. Housing mitigation plan. Before adding 106 units here, I would like to see current occupancy and absorption data for Park City’s existing deed-restricted inventory.  If comparable units are sitting unfilled, the case that this site is the necessary location for this density has not been made. Finally, on process. In 2017 the city spent $19.5 million of public money on this land to build an arts and culture district anchored by the Kimball Art Center and the Sundance Institute. Sundance has gone to Colorado. The Kimball has gone to Kimball Junction. What was on this site before was cleared away on the strength of a promise that no longer exists, and residents are now being asked to accept something materially different — and to bend the height limits to make it fit. The city is both the landowner and the regulator here. Holding this application to the same standard a private applicant would face is the only way to preserve public confidence in the outcome. I ask the commission to deny the requested height exceptions and to require a revised plan that conforms to the underlying.  Nate Marine  Park City The post Just say no appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less