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A water-treatment plant is under development on the edge of Thaynes Canyon, one of City Hall’s larger construction projects. The plant is one of the municipal projects and programs officials intend to highlight during an open house planned on Tuesday.
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The Park City Ice Arena is expected to temporarily close later in 2021 to allow crews to replace the ice surface and perform other maintenance work, one of a series of projects City Hall plans to outline at an upcoming open house.
The ice is replaced every five years as part of the normal maintenance schedule. The process involves melting the ice, touching up lines and logos that are affixed to the floor below the ice and then freezing a new ice surface.
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The statewide mask mandate expired earlier in April, but last weekend Park City offered a different message along Main Street.
City Hall continued to display a sign on the shopping, dining and entertainment strip with outdated information about mask requirements. The sandwich-board sign, located steps from a busy walkway linking Main Street with the Old Town transit center, advertised that “Wearing a mask is mandatory in all Park City shops and restaurants.” It said mask wearing was “Per State of Utah health order” with the City Hall logo at the bottom.
But mask wearing by the weekend was not mandatory, and the state health order the sign noted had ended days before, leading to the potential that the signs would cause confusion. The mask mandate, a public health rule that was designed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, was especially controversial as case counts dropped sharply from the highs during the winter.
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City Hall continues to require masks in municipal buildings, opting to keep the rule intact even after the end of a state mandate.
The mandate was lifted last weekend, but individual businesses and property owners have the ability to require masks regardless of the mandate’s end. The municipal government issued a statement as the mandate was lifted indicating that it would require masks or coverings inside all municipal buildings. There are exceptions for people who are eating, drinking or exercising.
It seemed likely as the end of the mandate approached the municipal government would enact its own requirement. Park City leaders since the early days of the spread of the novel coronavirus have taken numerous precautions as they attempted to curb the numbers within the community, which was among the first places in the state to suffer a cluster of cases last spring.
Sundance Film Festival-goers lined up for tickets at the Gateway Center in Old Town during the 2018 festival, contrasting with the emptiness of the same location as this year’s edition of Sundance continues. The festival in 2021 relies primarily on an online platform amid the continued spread of the novel coronavirus.
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A lone maintenance worker at the Gateway Center in Old Town slowly pushes a motorized floor cleaner across the tile at 12:45 p.m. on Saturday, the dull hum of the machine the only sound in a common area that is otherwise empty at this moment.
There are just a few walk-in businesses inside the building alongside the office spaces for which it is better known. It is a block off Main Street but has always seemed to be separated, both in physical distance and in ambiance, from the shopping, dining and entertainment strip.