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Park City on Tuesday hosted an open house designed to provide information about a wide range of municipal projects and programs, but the event took on greater meaning with the gathering becoming among the largest City Hall-organized events held in person in the more than a year.
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City Hall wants to execute a public-relations effort to outline the concept to build a facility along the S.R. 248 entryway to store soils containing contaminants from Park City’s silver-mining era, outlining a 60-day effort designed to explain the idea as many Parkites appear to be concerned about the prospects of a project.
Officials have taken steps to build what is known as a repository on municipal land located at the S.R. 248-Richardson Flat Road intersection. Soils containing contaminants like lead and arsenic would be stored in the facility. The repository would ultimately have space for 140,000 cubic-yards of materials and have an estimated construction cost of approximately $2.7 million.
The Park City Police Department on Saturday, May 8, received at least three complaints from businesses in the Main Street core. In one of the cases, a customer was outside “causing a scene,” according to department logs.
Park City has installed no-parking signs along a stretch of Park Avenue in anticipation of a reconfiguration of the section of the road. The signs remained covered late in the week as officials await the changes to Park Avenue, which are scheduled to debut on Tuesday.
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Park City officials on Tuesday are scheduled to reconfigure a key stretch of road in Old Town, a project that is meant to make the street section safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.
The alteration involves the section of Park Avenue between the 9th Street and Deer Valley Drive intersections. The heavily developed stretch of road essentially covers what is widely known as lower Park Avenue.