{"id":9136,"date":"2021-11-01T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2021-11-01T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:13:50","slug":"summit-county-please-use-the-50-million-in-open-space-bonds-to-buy-the-tech-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/summit-county-please-use-the-50-million-in-open-space-bonds-to-buy-the-tech-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County, please use the $50 million in open space bonds to buy the Tech Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Summit County,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you find yourself well. I have been doing well this past year. The harvest of Halloween candy seems plentiful, and I am hopeful that Thanksgiving will yield yams, potatoes, and other delights. If only Harmon&#8217;s could have taken over the Outlets at Park City sooner, we all may have all feasted on this coming holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abundance aside, I write to you with a simple request. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although my property taxes have doubled over the past decade, and my sales taxes have increased too, I knowingly voted for your $50 million open space bond. I also realize that you didn&#8217;t want to hurt the current bond&#8217;s chances, so you have delayed additional tax increases until next year. I thank you for that consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By paying increasing taxes every year, I believe I have shown sacrifice for you. I am hoping that you will return the favor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pray tell, will you please consider using every last dollar of the $50 million we have given you, to buy the Dakota Pacific Tech Park and make it into open space? I don&#8217;t care if it is only worth a fraction of this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you answer my prayers, I will no longer have to worry about basketball tickets and conflicts of interest. I won&#8217;t have to worry about whether this development will create more housing needs than it solves. I no longer will have to ponder why people who make 120% of the average median income ($100K a year) count toward affordable housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sure, in your infinite wisdom, you will see that a conservation easement that prevents development on this land makes our community stronger, our traffic less, and increases the well-being of all who live here. It will also make the land under the UOP look a lot less like Draper. Yes, I and my fellow landowners are each willing to pay you $1,040 over the next twenty-six years to preserve our way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All we ask in return is you don&#8217;t screw up Kimball Junction any more than it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for your kind consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josh Mann<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/county-ballot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9138\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Summit County, I hope you find yourself well. I have been doing well this past year. The harvest of Halloween candy seems plentiful,&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":[133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136"}],"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=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}