The Local: Park City Community News From KPCW, March 2026
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Summit County reorganizing multi-million-dollar sales tax grant program
By Connor Thomas
Summit County is changing the way millions in sales tax revenue gets distributed each year for area transportation projects.
In 2016, Summit County voters approved a transportation sales tax (TST) amounting to 1 cent on every $4, now generating about $8 million annually.
In the past Summit County staff screened the applicants and made funding recommendations to the Council of Governments. It’s made up of mayors from the county’s cities and three county councilmembers.
In March, the COG is expected to adopt a new process to prevent any conflicts of interest. Most often grants go to cities and towns, High Valley Transit or the county itself.
Proposed changes would have COG, not county staff, decide on TST grant amounts. The Summit County Council would still have the final say.
Park City parents form Go Miners Athletic Foundation to help raise $90M for fieldhouse
By Kristine Weller
A group of Park City parents has formed a foundation to help the school district fund construction of an indoor fieldhouse.
Fieldhouse plans were included in Phase 3 of the Park City School District’s athletics master plan, but were not funded. The estimated price tag for the project is between $86 million and $94 million.
Go Miners Athletic Foundation Vice President Sarah Elders says the group hopes to raise the full $94 million through a capital campaign.
Phase 3 would include a fieldhouse with updated weight rooms, indoor turf areas and multi-sport training spaces, as well as renovations to the high school gym and music areas.
New zoning, new town proposed in dual Browns Canyon applications
By Connor Thomas
Ivory Homes is working with landowners in Garff-Rogers Ranch to create a development called Lost Creek in Browns Canyon.
The development would be 491 acres and straddle Browns Canyon Road, about three miles from the state Route 248 intersection.
It would include 510 homes, townhomes and cottages. Half would be nightly rentals and 52 would be affordable.
Ivory Homes is pursuing the development on two tracks. It filed an application with Summit County for a zoning change and one with the Utah Lieutenant Governor’s Office to create a new town.
Both applications aim to convert acreage that’s currently zoned for agricultural use to residential.
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