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Daniel Lewis, an Old Town resident who unsuccessfully sought a spot on the Park City Council in 2019, said this week he will mount another campaign this year.
Lewis, 38, works for Park City Film and as a bartender. He said in an interview he had not finalized a platform. He said his campaign, though, will stress issues important to the youths of Park City and to the working class.
He noted he wants Park City to “try to use the benefit of rapid change.” He said a changing community, over time, brings with it infrastructure improvements like trails and the development of lower Main Street.
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Park City is continuing to take steps to build a facility along the S.R. 248 entryway to store soils containing contaminants from the community’s silver-mining era, an effort that has drawn attention in recent days months after leaders held public talks about the issue that appeared to draw limited interest from Parkites.
City Hall is considering building what is known as a repository on municipal land located at the S.R. 248-Richardson Flat Road intersection. Materials containing lead, arsenic and other contaminants would be stored there. The repository would ultimately have space for 140,000 cubic-yards of material with officials projecting it would take between five and 15 years to fill. The construction cost is estimated at approximately $2.7 million.
Person wants construction ‘noise to stop’
On Sunday, May 2 at 11:54 p.m., the Park City Police Department received a complaint about construction work on Ontario Avenue. The person who contacted the police indicated they “just want the noise to stop,” according to department logs. The police indicated the case involved an issue for City Hall’s code enforcers.
The Police Department at 9:35 p.m. received a complaint about a truck with the lights illuminated for several hours on Paddington Drive.
A deer, apparently a carcass, was seen in a travel lane on S.R. 224 at 9:04 p.m. There was also glass in the road and the police indicated the case involved a traffic accident. The officer who responded initially requested another officer respond to the scene. Public police logs did not provide details about the accident.
Tom Clyde hopes the conviction in the murder of George Floyd results in an overhaul of policing in America but worries the case will be regarded as an outlier “and another excuse to ignore the more general problem.”
Diane Thompson writes that City Hall should not be involved in financing or building an arts and culture district. Instead, it should sell the land to a developer to pursue the project.