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An Aspen for Utah? Developer submits plan to incorporate new Wasatch County town

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Heber-ite | 1:38 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

I hope people are smart enought to shoot this down. If this town full of snobby rich easterners who will only be here during the winter gets incoorperated, where am I going to be able to hunt?

Allen | 3:33 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

So where exactly is this town that 100 people live in located? Our mountains have been used and abused by the tree huggers, it first started with Robert Redford.

Stenar | 4:01 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

We need to get rid of all the hunters.

hmmm | 5:54 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

Maybe you could hunt the "snobby rich easterners"...or maybe you could quit hunting

Former Park City Resident | 6:58 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

Aspen, Utah sounds great...a bunch of wealthy individuals come from out of state, drive up the property tax rates until the locals who lived there for years have to move out. There are no local winners with this type of development.

Steven Chapman | 7:07 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

As a native of Utah, this makes me sick!

Rose | 7:23 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

I think we could come up with another name than Aspen. Why copy Colorado? Maybe there needs to be a contest.

Kevin | 7:25 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

How about a town entirely dedicated to historic architecture styles, primarily folk Victorian and arts & crafts, not the tasteless McMansions I see sprawling all over the place?

rokinutah | 7:29 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

I guess the guy owns the property so he should have the right to develop it BUT. Why does the whole west have to be a tourist trap ? Why does someone who already has money have to want so much more ? I was raised in areas such as Durango, CO and Moab, UT. As the towns turn from the locals to tourist traps they lose a lot of good character. If I were to model a town/development it sure as heck would not be Aspen.

I agree | 7:34 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

I hate that everyone is moving to Utah. Stay in California and on the East Coast.

samhill | 7:46 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

From the tone of Heber-ite's words, I'd say there is at least one snob already living in the area.

Copycat | 7:48 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

Why in the world name this Aspen? Aspen is well-known as a town in Colorado. It's a very dumb idea. Call it something else.

Sophisticated Easterner | 7:50 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

We'll be changing laws to prevent future hunting. Your kind has been killing the helpless animals for way to many years. And your kind has been living in the Heber Valley for way to many years - we'll be chaning some things there as well.

great plan | 7:57 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

if you don't like it move!!!

or vote it down.maybe you can sell your land for a lot of $ and find a nice quiet place.

Stupid | 8:03 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

This guy doesn't know skiing. The mountains on that side are not nearly high enough. I don't think that it will turn into anything.

parkcity | 8:05 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

sounds like it will be like the real aspen. far away from everything and lame. also worth noting is how there have been about 0 new ski resorts in the country in the last 30 years. good luck.

Anonymous | 8:05 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

There are lots of places to hunt. Rich easterners who pay lots of property tax to support our schools is only a good thing. With all of the debate about how to improve our schools, at last here is a project that brings in money to do just that.

Anonymous | 8:08 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

Let's ruin more land to make play grounds for wealthy non-Utahans. Where do you find a slope in Utah that hasn't been slashed up in to make ski runs? Thank god! Congressman from outside of Utah are trying to save Utah's public land from ORV use. Utahans just don't seem to take any pride in their outdoors. Does it follow that you must take pride in yourself before you can take some pride in where you live?

Bill | 8:13 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

I preferred Utah 40 years ago when we had less than a million residents. We weren't always whining about air pollution and paying through the nose for water or made to feel like we were sinners for watering our lawns. We had good fishing and hunting, and children could play outside all day without their mothers worrying if they had been kidnapped and molested.

I've seen enough growth. Let the Eastern liberals and Hollywood liberals build fifth homes someplace else. Growth makes a few people millionaires; it just congests the rest of us.

Stupid Name | 8:24 a.m. Nov. 10, 2007

What a stupid name. If there is already an Aspen, CO why would you name it Aspen, UT? Is the ski resort going to be named Snowbird?

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