Park City, Utah – The plans are advancing to demolish a high school in Park City to build a new sports facility. The plans would focus on the Treasure Mountain Junior High and Dozier Football Field site near Park City High School.
The new sports facilities would include baseball and football fields, strikerings, tennis courts, stands and administrative buildings. The plans were approved by the School Board before transmitting them to the city’s planning committee for approval.
However, several people showed up at the meeting of the planning committee on Wednesday evening to discuss their concerns with the proposal. Their biggest problems are the way in which facilities would have an impact on nearby neighborhoods and an increase in traffic to the region.
“What is constructed is damaging our properties,” said a concerned citizen. “It decreases the quality of life, and it does not need to be in this way.” Another person who did not agree with the plan said: “We just see an incredible quantity of traffic, especially at this intersection, who happens to be right where I live.”
Others, however, including a school’s softball player, are delighted with the idea of a new sports field. “I think it’s incredible what will happen and the possibilities that it brings,” said Teagan Grady, a second year student at Park City High School. This feeling is taken up by Jess McCURDY who has 4 boys who are all athletes: “… Our facilities are not really equal with the rest of Utah. So, to be able to see, especially in this community, an upgrade, not only with our education programs, but with our sports programs, and we look at the whole child is enormous!”
The school district says that they are studying traffic on the best way to alleviate the increase in project traffic. And to relieve the concerns of light and noise, all lights on the ground will have to be extinguished at 11:00 p.m.
The planning committee has given its approval for the project if the school board decides to move forward.
There is no date proposed when the treasure Mountain Junior High would be demolished.