Park City Mountain Resort- Ski Operations Improvements- Parcels: PCA-S-98-PCMR-1, PCA-29-A, PCA-29-D, PCA-1003, SA-402-A, SA-253-B-2 – Administrative Conditional Use Permit – The Applicant Proposes to Upgrade the Existing Silverlode Lift and Install a New Chair (Chondola Lift) Under the Park City Mountain Resort Mountain Upgrade Plan. PL-22-05145
(A) Public Hearing; (B) Action
Uphill Capacity of the Silverlode High Speed 6 person Lift is NOT the problem! Of course the Silverlode area was a skier congestion issue, PCMR only operated 79% of their lifts and 75% of the on-mountain restaurants. One of the only places to get some food or drinks, was Miner's Camp at the bottom of Silverlode. Rather than increasing the size of the Silverlode lift by 33%, which by the way will increase the already ridiculous amount of skiers coming down Home Run, Claim Jumper, Home Run and Propsector face off the top of Silverlode, why not run 100% of the lifts and restaurants, especially the Mid-Mountain Restuarant and The Thaynes Ski Lift which both were closed for most of the ski season. If you really want to solve the problem, replace the old and slow Pioneer lift, with a new high-speed lift.
As for increasing uphill capacity and realigning the Eagle Lift, I am for this improvement, as long as increased skier capacity is matched with increased parking. The proposed reserve and pay parking system, especially if free to promote car pooling, will decrease traffic and parking, but will increase off site parking both on city streets and satellite lots, like the high school lot as well as usage of the bus system. The city and PCMR need to come up with a plan where the buses coming in and heading out from satellite lots and neighborhoods don't sit in the same traffic as vehicles do. The busses need dedicated bus lanes and drop off locations (and not where people have to cross in front of vehicles to get to the buses like the cluster at the ice skating rink drop off pick up location).
Uphill Capacity of the Silverlode High Speed 6 person Lift is NOT the problem! Of course the Silverlode area was a skier congestion issue, PCMR only operated 79% of their lifts and 75% of the on-mountain restaurants. One of the only places to get some food or drinks, was Miner's Camp at the bottom of Silverlode. Rather than increasing the size of the Silverlode lift by 33%, which by the way will increase the already ridiculous amount of skiers coming down Home Run, Claim Jumper, Home Run and Propsector face off the top of Silverlode, why not run 100% of the lifts and restaurants, especially the Mid-Mountain Restuarant and The Thaynes Ski Lift which both were closed for most of the ski season. If you really want to solve the problem, replace the old and slow Pioneer lift, with a new high-speed lift.
As for increasing uphill capacity and realigning the Eagle Lift, I am for this improvement, as long as increased skier capacity is matched with increased parking. The proposed reserve and pay parking system, especially if free to promote car pooling, will decrease traffic and parking, but will increase off site parking both on city streets and satellite lots, like the high school lot as well as usage of the bus system. The city and PCMR need to come up with a plan where the buses coming in and heading out from satellite lots and neighborhoods don't sit in the same traffic as vehicles do. The busses need dedicated bus lanes and drop off locations (and not where people have to cross in front of vehicles to get to the buses like the cluster at the ice skating rink drop off pick up location).