Park City Brings Home Top Honors from the Utah Housing Coalition 
Snow Creek Cottages, Park City's newest workforce housing community, received the Project of the Year award from the Utah Housing Coalition at its statewide affordable housing conference on Tuesday, October 5.

Pictured left to right: Hank Louis, Rich Miller, Rhoda Stauffer, Mayor Dana WIlliams, Ginger Tolman, Phyllis Robinson

The award is given annually to an affordable housing project that demonstrates leadership in design, financing and targeting community needs.  Park City Municipal developed the Snow Creek Cottages project to address a pressing need for affordable home ownership opportunities for its local workforce.  Snow Creek Cottages is a 13-unit sustainable community incorporating renewable energy, green building materials and energy efficient building technologies.  To learn more about this award-winning project, visit the  Snow Creek Cottages webpage.

The Utah Housing Coalition also honored Rich Miller, a senior loan officer for Intermountain Mortgage in Park City, for his 15-year commitment to helping low- and moderate-income families realize their dream of home ownership.  Rich was presented with the Creative Use of Funds award which recognizes an organization or individual that best exemplifies creativity in the use of funding and can serve as a model of other communities.  Rich researches lending products and works with lenders to educate them about applying these products to financing deed-restricted housing.  He has been successful in creating new opportunities for lower income borrowers.  Since January 2009 Rich has assisted 14 lower-income households in Park City to become homeowners, including several new homeowners at Snow Creek Cottages.  For more information contact Rich, rich@greatlender.com.

Design Build BLUFF, was honored as the Agency of the Year for its innovative approaches to creating not only housing for an underserved population but also in creating a community of collaboration and understanding.  DesignBuildBLUFF, founded by Hank Louis, is a program for graduate students to realize architecture that nurtures the spirit and improves the lives of all who experience it.  Graduate students in architecture spend a semester in Bluff, Utah where they select a Navajo family for whom they design and build a home.  Students develop an architectural design solution tailored to the needs of the family with an emphasis on sustainable practices and in the process they learn about teamwork, collaboration and understanding.  For more information about this award-winning agency, visit http://www.designbuildbluff.org.

Park City Municipal Website Redesign Wins Two National Awards
Park City’s website redesign received the prestigious Savvy award presented annually by the national City-County Communications & Marketing Association (3CMA). The judges commented that the website is beautiful and easy-to-use that fits both residents and tourists well. “The unique and picturesque feel of the homepage and the use of photos and graphics throughout the site really capture the essence of Park City.” The redesigned website Park City was selected from other communities under 45,000 in population. The website also received an Award of Excellence for its beautiful and clean site design.  Read more

Park City Honored for Environmental Milestone 
Park City was recently recognized for its progress on climate protection and environmental sustainability. ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability, the leading local government association addressing climate change, presented Park City with an award for completing Milestone 3 of its 5 Milestone process.

Milestone 3 included completing a greenhouse gas emissions inventory for the community and working with residents to develop an action plan for addressing carbon emissions in Park City. The next step in the process includes implementing portions the action plan and making tangible progress towards emissions reductions. A copy of the “Save Our Snow Action Plan”, developed for Milestone 3, is available online via this link. 

CityTour 2010:  Montana
On September 8, 55 intrepid Park City/Summit County citizens left on this year's annual CityTour to Montana. There are several purposes for CityTour including, learning from other communities and resorts, sharing best practices, picking up valuable new information to bring back to Park City, and a chance for our own citizens to network and reflect on how they can best serve our community. This year marked the 38th year of CityTour, and we visited the National Historic Mining Town of Virginia City, the cosmopolitan recreation and university mecca of Bozeman, the old railroad town and picturesque gateway to Yellowstone National Park of Livingston, and the internationally famous resorts of Big Sky which includes The Yellowstone Club and Moonlight Basin.

                      (Photo courtesy Myles Rademan)                                                      Big Sky, Montana                        

Each community was exceptionally gracious in welcoming our group and sharing their successes and challenges. We heard from the political, business, tourism and non-profit leaders and had the opportunity to take a number of field trips to see first hand some of the innovations these communities are most proud of. In the near future we will issue a report to the community highlighting our impressions and suggesting some 'take home lessons' we might implement in Park City. Many important initiatives in Park City have resulted from previous CityTours including our open space and trails programs, affordable housing, public arts, downtown renewal, recycling, the ice rink, and many others. This year we were particularly struck with the community glass waste recycling program in Livingston and the emergency response system in Bozeman among many others.

We returned on Sunday, September 12 exhausted and filled with enthusiasm. The opportunity to spend a full five days traveling together reinforced the reality that Park City is a very progressive community that has and is doing a lot of things right. Each location and community we visited was astonished that Park City had the community foresight and involvement to send such an impressive group of citizens to learn and share with them. The all vowed to visit Park City in the future.

Blue Sky Community Challenge
Mayor Dana Williams and the City Council of Park City have launched a Blue Sky Community Challenge to increase support for renewable energy in the region.  The challenge is Park City's third in the past 10 years and will run through April 29, 2011. 

The goal of the community challenge is to increase total Blue Sky participation in Park City from 11 to 15 percent.  This will require 535 new enrollments in Rocky Mountain Power's Blue Sky program by residents and businesses.  Increasing Blue Sky participation to 15 percent could help Park City move up one position on the U.S. Env ironmental Protection Agency's Green Power Communities list from its current ranking of 14th in the nation.

To participate in the Park City Blue Sky Community Challenge, or for more information, visit www.rockymountainpower.net/parkcity or call toll free 1-800-769-3717.

Every Business should have a plan...It just makes good business sense!
Don't miss this opportunity to attend a workshop that will help you stay in business when hardship comes your way.  Click here for details

REVERSE 911 – In Case of Emergency, the City Will Call You
Look for a postal mailing later this month that addresses how you can securely register your cell phone number on our website. Or to register now, click here.

General Plan Public Outreach Open Houses 
Help shape the future of your Park City neighborhood.  Stop in one of many Open Houses anytime October 28 between 5-7:00 p.m.  Click here for locations.

Bonanza Bulletin
Bonanza Drive is closed from Munchkin to Iron Horse Drive.  The 3rd and final round of  paving is scheduled October 11-15 from Kearns to Munchkin Drive.  Weekday construction hours:  7 a.m. to 7 p.m.  Saturday hours:  7 a.m. to 3 p.m.  For more information, please visit http://bonanzadrive.com/

Green Your Routine
Recycle Used Gadgets
Don’t trash old gadgets. Get paid to recycle them. Web sites like gazelle.com and cellforcash.com buy back used gadgets like cell phones, cameras and iPods. Search for your gadget on the site and they’ll give you a quote. If you accept the offer, they’ll pay for shipping. If the site decides that your gadget is worthless, they’ll still pay for shipping and recycle the gadget for free.

News You Can Use
In September, City Council
• Awarded a contract to Mountain Trails Foundation for annual trail maintenance services
•Awarded a contract to Clean Harbor for soil hauling and disposal services related to the Bonanza Drive and SR 248 Pedestrian Tunnel projects
• Awarded a contract to Gardner Engineering for installation of rooftop solar panels on the Marsac building
• Approved a Professional Services Agreement with J-U-B Engineering for services related to the design and construction of SR-248 and Richardson Flats Road intersection improvements
• Agreed to refer any appeal relating to the Park City Heights Master Planned Development to an independent Appeal Panel
• Approved a contract with Alpine Trails for the construction of a new trail that will begin at the Silver Star base and climb to mid-mountain
• Approved an amendment to the Agreement with Brown and Caldwell for environmental analysis services related to the Spiro and Judge Tunnels and Prospector Drain
• Entered into a letter of intent with the Sweeney Family to pursue two alternatives to reduce proposed density in the Treasure Hill proposed development

Transportation Master Plan Open House
Forty people came to the Transportation Plan open house held October 5.  The attendees were supportive of public transit, both encouraging greater use of the existing system and expanding coverage and hours of operation.  Attendees also favored later service to Kimball Junction and connecting to Salt Lake City, the airport and downtown.  Bicycle lanes were highly supported.

Watch for information regarding additional public meetings and hearings with Planning Commission and City Council in future newsletters.  Conclusions and recommendations will be formulated November-January with proposed adoption of the recommendations scheduled in February or March.  For more information, contact Matt Riffkin, InterPlan Transportation Planning, 801-307-3400 or email him at matt@interplanco.com

Leadership Park City Selects Its 17th Year Class
        Class members include: