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The Park City Business Park at the southern end of Old Highway 40 has a number of shell buildings being sold like condominiums.
One company, Altitude Lofts, advertises its spaces as live, work and play: “perfect for car collectors, hobbyists, businesses owners [sic] or a residential crash pad in Park City.” There are two of 11 units left for sale, according to its website.
Purchasers need to get a permit for the residential “crash pad” part on their own. That’s what one such condo owner secured at the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission May 13.
“Since so many of these are coming up, to me, it has sort of seemed like this organic evolution of the area,” Commission Vice Chair Makena Hawley said.
The trend is at odds with the area’s zoning. The Park City Business Park — which is technically in unincorporated Summit County — is the county’s only “service commercial” zone.
It’s the county’s way of reserving the area for light industrial development. For example, Geneva Rock construction maintains a location there, as does Burt Brothers. Offset Bier has announced plans to move its brewery there.
Planning commissioners have resisted allowing housing in that zone. Allowing it in the business park would mean allowing it anywhere else that might be rezoned “service commercial.”
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