A group of Parkites recently began meeting regularly to outline concerns with the Park City government’s vision for a development on land in Bonanza Park, raising the possibility that there could be organized opposition to a project. Mayor Ryan Dickey and the Park City Council on Thursday even ing received a limited amount of input regarding the talks about the municipal government’s approximately 5 acres, which stretch inward from the southwest corner of the Kearns Boulevard-Bonanza Drive intersection. The municipal government acquired the land almost a decade ago with plans to develop an arts and culture district co-anchored by the Sundance Institute and the Kimball Art Center. That plan disintegrated in the intervening years, with the art center opting for a location in the Snyderville Basin and the Sundance Film Festival leaving Park City. Park City and its development partner are instead now pressing ahead with a significant concept that would involve a large bloc of housing units, an amphitheater and arts elements. The majority of the housing would be income-restricted units as the municipal government continues an aggressive effort to create options for the workforce and others priced out of Park City’s resort-driven real estate and rental markets. There have been recent calls from people wanting Park City to drop the plans and perhaps create some sort of park space on the land. It had not been widely known that there is a group addressing concerns with the concept, even though there have been questions recently raised about the plans and talk in the community of potential alternative visions for the acreage. Kelly Pfaff, a Park Meadows resident involved with the group, appeared at the City Council meeting on Thursday to provide input about the 5 acres. Pfaff owns a commercial building in nearby Prospector. In an interview after her comments at the meeting, she said the community initially supported the vision when it included a mix of uses, like the arts organizations. According to Pfaff, though, the current iteration has morphed into a housing project with park space and a performance stage. “I feel like we’re interconnected. By putting housing there, it doesn’t connect us,” she said. “Nobody’s going to utilize that area except for (residents of the) houses.” She added, “It’s a complete opposite” of the original vision of an arts and culture district with the two high-profile anchors. Pfaff described that there is already workforce or otherwise restricted housing close to the municipal 5 acres, noting the units at Holiday Village and at the EngineHouse Apartments. Pfaff said the meetings addressing the concerns have been held weekly, and the people involved intend to formalize the group in some fashion. Between 40 and 50 people are actively supporting the effort, she said. Up to 10 people are expected to be named to a leadership committee, she said. The group did not have a name yet. If a formalized opposition group coalesces, it would be the second such organization to appear in less than a year expressing concern with a municipal housing concept. Leaders are also pursuing housing on a small portion of the municipally owned Clark Ranch land in the area of Quinn’s Junction. A group calling itself Keep Clark Ranch Wild materialized months ago with a wide range of worries about a housing project, including traffic increases, costs and the loss of open space. The post Park City housing concept in Bonanza Park prompts possibility of formal opposition group appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less