(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ross McIntyre, who has lived across from Solitude Mountain Resort since 1989, finds himself with unwelcome news as the resort has requested a conditional use permit to build a 593-space parking lot in an aspen grove across SR-190 from the ski area's main village, Tuesday, May 7, 2025. The lot that would require steep retaining walls and the removal of hundreds of trees that provide shade, solitude and sound buffering, could also damage Salt Lake City's watershed, further snarl traffic in the canyon and be a visual blight.