{"id":975,"date":"2014-09-19T09:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2014-09-19T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:45:24","slug":"there-is-hope-you-can-still-make-a-difference-in-summit-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/there-is-hope-you-can-still-make-a-difference-in-summit-county\/","title":{"rendered":"There is hope. You Can Still Make A Difference in Summit County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you pay attention to events in Washington D.C., you\u2019ll know that our congress people\u00a0have an approval rating of about 10%. People look at what is going on around them\u00a0and feel they have no input; no way to change the course of events. \u00a0They then extrapolate that despondence onto the events they see closer to home. Recently we have heard things like \u201cthe school board is going to raise our taxes again, but there is nothing I can do about it\u201d and \u201cVail is going to take over this place and Park City is just going to let them\u201d. Yet, if you look at some people trying to make a difference, you will find\u00a0that the reality, at least on the local level, is far different.<\/p>\n<p>There is no better example than an issue that is starting to simmer\u00a0in Jeremy Ranch. There is a developer who has the right to build offices and small-retail on 66,000 square feet across from the Jeremy Store. \u00a0However, the developer\u00a0is requesting this be expanded 4-fold to about 235,000\u00a0square feet with homes, a hotel, and retail space. The Jeremy Ranch Home Owners Association marshaled home owners and brought them to a Summit County Council meeting on Wednesday in Coalville to speak against the issue. The County Council wasn\u2019t prepared to discuss the issue, as it was on the next week\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>However, a number of very good things happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The County Council pushed the agenda item\u00a0back a week, so that it could be held in Kimball Junction, instead of Coalville. \u00a0This enables more of the public impacted to participate.<\/li>\n<li>The Community Development Director Patrick Putt provided his email and his phone number (yes his phone number) to everyone in attendance and wanted everyone to feel free to call him or email with any questions they have. You don\u2019t see that every day.<\/li>\n<li>The County Council educated people in attendance on how to use the new Summit County website to sign up to receive emails, so they can stay on top of not only this issue but others ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What the people of Jeremy Ranch got was hope and a way forward.\u00a0 They found a local government that was willing to work with them and make it as easy as possible for people to make their case.<\/p>\n<p>While impacting anything at the national level is unlikely for us mere mortals, at least the people of Jeremy Ranch have an even shot. \u00a0It is possible to make a difference if you just try. \u00a0Whether your issue is Vail, land use, dogs, or really anything else, at least Summit County seems willing to listen and consider your argument. \u00a0That\u2019s about all any of us can ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you pay attention to events in Washington D.C., you\u2019ll know that our congress people\u00a0have an approval rating of about 10%. People look at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"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=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}