Park City Mountain lift upgrade public hearing delayed

Park City Mountain ticket office. Photo: TownLift // Bailey Edelstein

PARK CITY, Utah — A public hearing scheduled for Tuesday 0ver the administrative conditional use permit (CUP) application Vail Resorts submitted in January for the upgrade of the Silverlode and Eagle lifts has been pushed to April 25.

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Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) has requested a continuation of their application for ski lift upgrades originally scheduled for an Administrative Public Hearing tomorrow at noon. While the application was deemed complete on April 5, the Parking Mitigation Plan that was submitted to the Planning Department did not provide substantive mitigation and was likely not acceptable for approval.

PCMR was asked to submit more information for further analysis before the Staff Report was published on April 7. The applicant requested additional time to produce more materials and waived their three-day Staff Report publishing requirement. By Monday’s deadline, PCMR had not submitted supplemental materials in time to publish in the Staff Report so a continuance was requested.

A new Administrative Public Hearing has been rescheduled for Monday, April 25, at 12:00 p.m. in Council Chambers. Public comment will be accepted until April 20, 2022.

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The Silverlode Lift will be upgraded to an 8-chair detachable lift, and the Eagle Lift will be replaced with a single, 6-chair detachable longer lift under the proposal.

The improvements are part of a $320 million capital plan at 14 of Vail’s resorts.

Normally, ski lifts are a conditional use that requires planning commission approval. However, the 1998 development agreement for Park City Mountain includes an approved Mountain Upgrade Plan — it states that “development of ski facilities (including new/different lifts) is subject to administrative review only,” under certain conditions.

In 2008, upgrades for King Con and Motherlode were reviewed as an administrative CUP under the agreement. In 2015, the Crescent Lift and new Quicksilver Gondola were processed as standard CUPs, because they were not a part of the upgrade plan.

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