One can support affordable housing in Park City but oppose the current Bonanza Park development plan. This is not a partisan issue. Without first addressing traffic at an already failed intersection, this development threatens public safety. The Bonanza/Kearns/Monitor intersection is the main eg ress from Park Meadows to the hospital. Many times during the day, I must wait for two-three light changes to turn left on Kearns. In addition, throughout portions of the day, all lanes on Kearns and Bonanza are often completely blocked. Referring to the east side of town where the hospital and residential areas such as Studio Crossing and Park City Heights are located, Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter stated in the Aug. 13 City Council meeting: “That corridor on 248 — we have a real concern on that area because we could become land locked. And currently, if we have major accidents on 248, we have to literally go all the way around 224 and access the highway on 40 to access that area.” To be clear, he has expressed neutrality regarding the Brinshore development. Yet the ability to access that side of town where the hospital is located will decline further with the addition of hundreds of more cars to this already congested intersection. I can personally attest that when I was having chest pains several years ago, it took my husband approximately 30 minutes to get me to the hospital because of traffic. Secondly, despite the City Council and Brinshore claiming the opposite, common sense dictates that a housing development with 106 apartments plus commercial space will affect travel through this intersection that already has an “F” rating. If traffic mitigation were a priority, Brinshore would do a legitimate study during ski season while school is in session before asserting that a development of this scale will not exacerbate traffic. If the goal of having families with kids move into the larger apartments is realized, how many cars will drive each day to and from McPolin and the preschool? Will they be cutting through residential areas to avoid the traffic on Kearns? How many inexperienced high school drivers will be put at risk trying to enter and exit the school parking lot? There are already more accidents at the project corner than anywhere else in Park City. Will pedestrians and cyclists be at increased risk of injury or death from drivers trying to turn or get through traffic at this intersection? Will we need extra police or crossing guards for children crossing Bonanza alone on their way to and from school? Approving Brinshore without a clear-eyed look at 1500 Kearns could lock in two large mixed-use projects at the same intersection — and the traffic, height and setback problems of one will become the problems of both. 1500 Kearns is not the decision before you. It is, however, at the same failed intersection. Decisions treating Brinshore in isolation deny the painful realities that this corner will carry if both are built. This failure to plan for emergency service access to the high school and McPolin Elementary is a threat to the most precious resource in our community, our children. What do you say to families if the response time to the schools or transport to the hospital are doubled, tripled or worse because they have to drive up to I-80 and down Highway 40? How does this corner behave if Deer Valley and Old Town have to move at once toward Highways 224 and 248? City operations already treat Deer Valley Drive at Bonanza Drive, Deer Valley Drive at Park Avenue, and Bonanza Drive at Kearns Boulevard as winter-egress pinch points. An emergency is inevitable. Whether this intersection has been driven further past failure when it arrives is the choice in front of you. Chief Carpenter’s Aug. 13 statement is already in the public record: The 248 corridor can become landlocked, and major accidents already force a detour via 224 and Highway 40 to reach the hospital side of town. That is evidence of existing street capacity and emergency-access failure at this intersection. Adding 106 units, commercial space, a child-care center, and the pending density at 1500 Kearns is a reasonably anticipated detrimental effect on that same corridor. Extra underground stalls on this site do not restore hospital or school response time on Kearns and Bonanza. The City Council on Aug. 13 adopted Ordinance 2026-19, strengthening the Transportation Impact Study Guidelines. A study that does not capture ski-season peaks while school is in session does not meet these requirements for this intersection. Without an accepted study and conditions that actually reduce delay for emergency access to Park City Hospital, Park City High School, and McPolin Elementary, you cannot make the required findings. This is not a request that you apply the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan as if it were a zoning overlay. It is a requirement that you apply the code you are sworn to apply. Section 15-1-10 does not ask you to hope traffic will work. It asks whether reasonable conditions will mitigate delayed emergency access and a corridor that already operates at failure. If the record does not support that finding, the applications should be denied or continued until it does. Approving this development as proposed will overload already failed intersections. I implore you to make the findings the Land Management Code requires. Park City will be united in their gratitude. Allison H. Cook The post A serious safety threat appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less