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RESORT CENTER 46 Park City, the Best Resort Town for the Planet DRAFT - December 19, 2013 RESORT CENTER NEIGHBORHOOD 5: RESORT CENTER 47 DRAFT - December 19, 2013 RESORT CENTER Map 1 NATURAL CONDITIONS RESORT CENTER Existing Roads Ridgelines 100’ Contours Slopes > 30 deg. Buildings Wetlands Existing Vegetation Streams and Water 48 Park City, the Best Resort Town for the Planet DRAFT - December 19, 2013 Total Area (sq. miles) .33 square miles Neighborhood Icons Glenwood cemetery, Silver Total Area (acres) 214 acres King Mine Building, Park Total Units 1,034 City Mountain Resort, Park City Golf Course, White Pine Unbuilt Units 403 Touring Center % of Total Park City Units 11% Parks None Average Density 16.37 units per acre Amenities Park City Golf Course, Park Range of Density 0.3 – 76 units per acre City Mountain Resort Population 97 Trails Extensive trails throughout Total Businesses 40 Park City Mountain Resort & % of Total Park City Nordic ski trails at the Golf RESORT CENTER Businesses 5% Course Housing Types Hotel, multi-family, & single- Walkability Moderate walkability due to family homes existing amenities and lack of Historic Sites 3 sites on Historic Inventory sidewalks. Affordable Housing Silver Star (20) Sub-Neighborhoods Payday, Three Kings, Silver Star Occupancy 5% Primary residences 3% Owner-occupied 2% Renter-occupied 49 DRAFT - December 19, 2013 Map 2 BUILT CONDITIONS Thaynes Canyon Drive SR 224 / Park Avenue RESORT CENTER Empire Drive Affordable Housing Trail Trail Head Bus Route Bus Stop Paved Road Open Space Streams and Water Institutional Use Parks and Rec. 50 Park City, the Best Resort Town for the Planet DRAFT - December 19, 2013 As one of the most dense resort-oriented neighborhoods, the typical lot configuration accommodates multi-family condominiums, hotels, and time- share units. A RESORT CENTER few single family homes exist at the northern edge of the neighborhood. 51 DRAFT - December 19, 2013 5.1: The Resort Center context. The Resort Center located within the Lower Center, Old Town, and Neighborhood: Where Neighborhood is surrounded Park Avenue Redevelopment Bonanza Park & Snow Creek. redevelopment integrates by many community assets Area (RDA). Originally a world class resort with a including City Park, the created in 1990, the Lower Multiple planning documents strong sense of community. Library and Education Park RDA contributed to have been created for this Center, the Senior Center, the revitalization of the area, including the Lower The base of the Park City and Miners Hospital. PCMR area surrounding the Resort Park Avenue RDA plan(1990, Mountain Resort (PCMR) has embraced its central Center with improvements 2012 amendment), Lower contains a mix of medium- ties to the community that include the sound Park Avenue Design Study and high-density condo- with an enduring long- garden, skateboard (PCMC, 1993), Lower Park hotel buildings that are term relationship with the park, outdoor theatre, Avenue Preliminary Planning primarily offered as Nightly locals through community Miner’s Hospital, and City Concepts (Jack Johnson Rental. Resort support programs and a legacy of Park. The Lower Park Company, 2009), the Lower commercial uses (e.g. ski hosting local benefits. Avenue RDA has been the Park Avenue Redevelopment rental, restaurants, and retail largest funding source Authority Project List shops) are concentrated at Future PCMR development for Historic Preservation (Design Workshop, 2009), & the resort base. The Resort of the three parking lots Matching Grants and the the PCMR Base Area Transit RESORT CENTER Center is uniquely “Park located at the base provides City’s affordable housing Center and Parking Structure City” with the Old Town an opportunity for PCMR to programs. The Lower Park Plan (2013). neighborhood wrapping rebrand itself by combining Avenue RDA plan guides the southern and eastern the ski experience with appropriate investments To bring all the concepts into edge. Although similar in the lodging experience. within the area. The RDA one guiding document, a context to the neighboring Currently, PCMR manages plan was extended in 2012, Lower Park Avenue/Resort multifamily neighborhood the ski resort but has little allowing increment funding Center Area Plan should be between Empire Avenue control of the private to continue through 2030. a top planning priority to and Park Avenue to the business at the base area. This will allow the City to ensure success of the RDA east, future development The future style, layout, work with PCMR to ensure and guide development in a within the Resort Center and design will redefine the improvements in the cohesive manner. will create a more dense character of the base area redevelopment area balance village core. The historic and influence the entire tourism and community Park Avenue entry corridor Resort Center neighborhood. needs. The Lower Park redevelopment must The majority of the Resort Avenue RDA includes three remain true to the historic Center neighborhood is neighborhoods; the Resort 52 Park City, the Best Resort Town for the Planet DRAFT - December 19, 2013 Based upon studies tools for the Park City FUTURE LOWER PARK AVENUE/ completed over the past Mountain Resort Base RESORT CENTER AREA PLAN decade as well as recent Area which include public/ planning analyses, the private partnerships on following concepts should development projects, be included in a future Area public financing, and/or Plan: financial incentives. Future public/private investments Area Plan Principle 1: from RDA funds should Support redevelopment of promote redevelopment the Resort Center through by stimulating private public/private partnership to development within the RESORT CENTER stimulate private investment project area. The investment within the RDA project area. into the area should improve the visitor experience within The three resort center the project area, resulting in parking lots at PCMR increased competitiveness are entitled to future of Park City within the resort redevelopment of a mix of market. Flexibility should resort oriented residential be employed regarding the and commercial uses. execution of the existing According to the 2009 PCMR MPD approval in order Jack Johnson Company to facilitate: 1) public/private study, “The prohibitive partnership opportunities costs of comprehensive for public transit for visitors replacement of this parking and locals, parking and in underground or structured affordable housing; 2) formats has stymied past potential relocation/transfer redevelopment efforts.” of density; and 3) new Resort Center Neighborhood Old Town Neighborhood The lots are located within uses including emerging Lower Park RDA the Lower Park Avenue RDA, recreation and resort visitor Future Area Plan Boundary providing redevelopment experiences. 53 DRAFT - December 19, 2013 Proposed Improvements: Phase 1 Area Plan Principle ride options for visitors 2: Improve the guest and employees should be experience of arriving and examined. leaving the Resort Center. 2. Primary entry point Circulation Improvements: improvements are necessary There are four areas that at existing intersections of should be addressed to Park Avenue & Deer Valley improve circulation at the Drive, Empire & Three Kings, Resort Center. Kearns & Park Avenue, and Deer Valley Drive & Bonanza 1. Management of load-in, Drive. load-out. The 2009 Lower Park During peak periods of Avenue Preliminary Planning demand at the Resort Concepts created by the Center (peak holiday skiing Jack Johnson Company RESORT CENTER visitation, Sundance Film recommended consideration Festival, Arts Festival, and of “the use of appropriately This map illustrates the proposed Dan’s to Jan’s corridor Fourth of July), conflicts scaled traffic circles, grade improvements which should continue the soft greenspace are common between separate improvements experience as well as improved the bike/ped experience. private vehicles, transit, for pedestrians or vehicles, Figure 18. Proposed Phase I Improvements and pedestrians. Also, and strategies to allow bicycle, public transit, and 3. DraftPublic Transit Recommendations | 37 overflow parking impacts uninterrupted flow of Public private automobile flow Improvements the neighboring residential/ Transit (transit only express through the three key entry hotel areas with parking on lanes/free right turns) as points. The corridor study The 2009 JJC study also recommended the the streets and in restricted potential strategies for was finalized in 2012 with consideration of “new areas. These may be improvement to these recommendations to address the traffic challenges. The modes of public transit and addressed via Transportation nodes.” Following this dedicated transit lanes or Demand Management recommendation, the City recommendations of this corridors throughout the (TDM) or other measures hired Fehr and Peers in study should be included study area and connecting as appropriate. In addition, 2012, to complete a corridor within the future Area Plan. to and through adjacent the creation of park-and- plan to address pedestrian, districts. 54 Park City, the Best Resort Town for the Planet DRAFT - December 19, 2013 Consider dedicated small 4. Additional East-West neighborhoods. Use these partnerships to make RESORT CENTER bus service, trolley, or street connections items to strategically direct development more car service on Lower Park vehicle and pedestrian traffic affordable on parking lots. Avenue, Main Street and Existing egress into and along preferred routes.”