Search for hotel site narrows

(Park Record) Having met with developers, the military has perhaps narrowed its search for a location for a hotel in the Park City area to three possible sites.

"My understanding is that there are three proposals that are in," Park City Mayor Dana Williams said in a telephone interview.

Those sites may include parcels near Jordanelle State Park, Quinn's Junction and The Canyons Resort, Williams said.

City Hall has been in talks with the U.S. Air Force for several years about a place for soldiers to stay while visiting the ski town. A past proposal placed the hotel at Quinn's Junction near land the military owns in the Park City area.

But Williams said he is opposed to the military building the hotel at Quinn's because that type of project would not comply with the zoning ordinances there. State lawmakers passed a bill last year that allowed private landowners adjacent to military property to ignore local planning codes if they work with the federal government to build recreational facilities.

"One of the things the electorate mandated us to do is to protect the brand of the community," Williams said. "The idea of usurping planning processes in either the county or the city goes against the reason we took oaths of office, which was to protect that code."

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