{"id":7612,"date":"2018-01-31T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2018-01-31T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:28:10","slug":"treasure-deal-must-be-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/31\/treasure-deal-must-be-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasure deal must be SIMPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkrecord.com\/news\/park-city-says-treasure-rights-could-be-shifted-after-deal\/\"> another Park Record article<\/a> on the Treasure purchase. Each time I get more confused. What exactly is it that Parkites (I mean the 84060 variety) will be voting on and paying for? Are you buying all the Treasure land ? Most of it? Some of it? Will you get all the rights to development (and thus extinguish them)? Are you paying $64 million to enable a transfer of density, where a portion of the development rights go somewhere else? Whose density and rights are those? Is that why $90 million turned into $60 million?<\/p>\n<p>So, what would you say the public is buying?<\/p>\n<p>Damn it\u2019s confusing.<\/p>\n<p>That is likely by design.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the things we have learned by watching Summit County and Park City government over the years is that <strong>unless something is concrete\u00a0\u2026\u00a0 it is<\/strong> <strong>quicksand<\/strong>. Today you are paying $60 million to not build at Treasure and tomorrow you will be paying another $60 million to not build somewhere else that was enabled by the rights from Treasure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve heard concerns from a number of residents that the \u201cTreasure Deal\u201d is really a farce \u2014 that they want to put an agreement on the ballot that is so egregious that it won\u2019t pass. Then the city government will say, \u201cwell we tried.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s dangerous times in Park City. As an outsider, I would recommend paying attention to not what your local leaders say\u2026 but how they say it.<\/p>\n<p>If Park City really wants any chance of passing this, they need to make sure that all the Treasure Hill is put under a conservation easement with no other tie-ins. Buy it and give it to Summit Land Conservancy (or someone similar). Done and Done.<\/p>\n<p>That is understandable. You know what you are getting for your $200 per year contribution for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Anything else is very sketchy\u2026 which brings us back to those conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading another Park Record article on the Treasure purchase. Each time I get more confused. What exactly is it that Parkites (I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}