Comments about ‘Park City, Summit County buy 12,000 acres’

It should also be noted that in every other place where such development restrictions have been put in place, the current developed areas and the few remaining undeveloped areas still open to development, all rapidly increase in value. Tremendously.

There are many motivations to restrict development. Its revealing to note how often the proponents of such restrictions are also the recipients of the resulting increases in monetary value.

Samhill is almost right. The beneficiaries of this deal are adjacent land owners whose property increased in value because the adjacent property won't be developed and will, inevitably, be used more by them than by the public. A good reporter should find out who those people are and how they're connected to the public officials who pushed it through.

The whole town gets to benefit by establishing a clear boundary between the 'ins' and the 'outs'. Same thing happened 10 years ago when Park City bought the barn to make sure those Snyderville slums didn't pollute their exclusive, "quaint" town. Does anyone who works in Park City actually live there?