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Adam Strachan Awarded 16th Annual “Community Leadership Award” by Leadership Park City
Adam Strachan Awarded the 16th Annual “Community Leadership Award” by Leadership Park City
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Myles Rademan
Director of Leadership Park City
myles@parkcity.org
435.901.8778
PARK CITY, UTAH (October 5, 2018) — Leadership Park City is pleased to honor Adam Strachan as the recipient of its sixteenth annual “Community Leadership Award.” This award recognizes an outstanding Park City citizen who through sustained involvement, tireless commitment and insightful leadership has made significant contributions to the greater Park City community.
Ben Franklin wrote that “Even the greatest vision without action is simply hallucination.”
The Community Leadership Award honors individuals who act and persevere; who makes good things happen with the help of and for the benefit of others.
Adam Strachan and his family moved from Salt Lake to Park City in the late 1980s. After attending college at USC in Los Angeles and law school at the University of Utah, Adam and his wife Helen moved back to Park City in 2006. They have two kids, Hannah and Ada, who attend McPolin Elementary. Adam is an attorney in town who specializes in representing ski resorts, and Helen is a Deputy County Attorney for Summit County. They live in Prospector and try to keep their kids and themselves as active as possible in the community and the outdoors.
Adam through his tireless efforts over 10 years as a Park City Planning Commissioner and finally as Chairman of that august body shepherded the Treasure Hill project through countless meetings sometimes lasting into the wee hours of the morning. Though threatening to retire several times as his various Planning Commission terms ended, he was persuaded to stay on to share his knowledge, passion and perspectives on one of the most complicated, difficult, thorny and contentious development and land use issues ever confronting Park City. As an almost native Parkite (whom I watched grow up) and a practicing lawyer in the law firm started by his illustrious parents his attention and commitment to the future well-being of our town is an inspiration to all future community leaders. Adam approaches his service with a sense of humility, a love for learning and listening, a shining authenticity, and a commitment to personal and community health. In everything he does one recognizes a deep sense of mission and a great sense of humor.
Our community is now poised on Tuesday, November 6 to vote on the eventual future of the Treasure Hill project perhaps concluding this long running chapter in Park City’s history.
Leadership Park City is proud to honor Adam Strachan with its sixteenth annual Community Leadership Award. He exemplifies the sustained leadership necessary to strengthen community institutions, the initiative to champion practical planning, and a spirit that helps define the public good.
His extraordinary efforts to better our community has earned him tremendous respect and admiration from his peers and the tenacity with which he approaches issues is an inspiration to us all.
Adam is one of Park City’s ‘leadership heroes’, and Leadership Park City is honored to bestow this year’s annual Community Leadership Award on him. He joins previous award recipients, Candy Erickson, Bob Richer, Sally Elliott, Jan Wilking, Meeche White, Mary & Charlie Wintzer, Rob Slettom, Tina Lewis, Bill Brown, Jess Reid, Insa Riepen, Dana Williams, Christina Miller, Jenni Smith, Jane Patten, and last year’s recipient Fr. Charles Robinson, as leadership role models for our community.
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The Community Leadership Award is presented annually in October at the Leadership Park City welcoming reception and final banquet.
Now entering its 25th Silver Anniversary year, Leadership Park City is an award-winning, community-based leadership program designed to provide emerging leaders with new and additional skills and networking opportunities helping them make positive and lasting contributions to the greater Park City and Summit County communities. The program is supported by a wide variety of public and private sponsors sharing a faith in building strong communities and community leaders. The program now has over 600 participants and alumni.
SolSmart Gold
Park City, Utah Designated “SolSmart Gold” for Advancing Solar Energy Growth
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Celia Peterson
celia.peterson@parkcity.org
435.287.5624
Park City, Utah Designated “SolSmart Gold” for Advancing Solar Energy Growth
PARK CITY, UTAH (November 26, 2018) – Park City, Utah received a Gold designation from the national SolSmart program for making it faster, easier, and more affordable for homes and businesses to go solar.
This designation recognizes Park City for taking bold steps to encourage solar energy growth and remove obstacles for solar development. For companies looking to expand, a SolSmart Gold designation is a signal that Park City is “open for solar business.”
SolSmart, led by The Solar Foundation and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office. More than 200 cities, counties, and small towns have achieved SolSmart designation since the program launched in 2016. Park City is one of 91 SolSmart Gold designees. This is especially notable as Utah is a non-home rule state, which means that Park City is not allowed to set its own energy code. Only six communities in non-home rule states have achieved SolSmart Gold.
“We have a clear path to 100% renewables by adopting a mix of energy efficiency measures, working with our utility to build new renewables, and producing solar energy from our rooftops. We want to make it practical and economic for all Parkites to harvest their energy directly from the sun. To achieve SolSmart Gold, we have modified our code to encourage our residents to adopt rooftop solar. We know that local renewables are of local economic benefit and provide clean, cheap energy for our community. This is our future and we are proud to receive this designation,” commented Mayor Andy Beerman.
As a SolSmart designee, Park City can help solar companies reduce the cost of installations and pass savings on to consumers. This allows even more local homes and businesses to obtain affordable, clean, and reliable electricity through solar. The actions Park City has taken will help encourage solar companies to do business in the area, driving economic development and creating local jobs.
To receive designation, cities and counties make changes to their local processes to reduce the time and money it takes to install a solar energy system. This includes evaluating local permitting processes, as well as planning and zoning procedures. SolSmart designees also develop innovations in areas such as market development and finance.
For example, Park City waives permitting fees and has a streamlined process to ensure that solar systems can be permitting within two business days.
SolSmart uses objective criteria to award communities points based on the actions they take to reduce barriers to solar energy development. Communities that take sufficient action are designated either gold, silver, or bronze.
As part of the SolSmart program, a team of national experts provides no-cost technical assistance to help communities achieve designation. All cities and counties are eligible to join the SolSmart program and receive this technical assistance. Interested communities can learn more at SolSmart.org.