Pro Bono Utah Litigation

Five-Acre Site,
Park City

R. McConnell Group represents nearly thirty Park City businesses, pro bono, in the dispute over the City’s plan to redevelop the Five-Acre Site at Bonanza Drive and Kearns Boulevard. Our clients run the restaurants, shops, and lodging on and around the Site.

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The record

Letters & filings

Our letters to the City, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, and the City’s records officer appear below, newest first.

  1. Letter to Records Officer: GRAMA 26-574 Narrowed Request

    Narrows our records request to six items and asks the City to waive the fee.

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  2. Comment to Planning: Record and Continuation

    Asks the City to put our earlier filings in the record and raises five points for the applicant's redesign.

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  3. Response to GRAMA Determination 26-574

    Asks the City to waive its $552.08 fee and explains the public interest in how the City spends up to $40 million on the Site.

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  4. Letter to Utah DEQ: Voluntary Cleanup Program File

    Asks the State for its cleanup file and whether it has reviewed the plans.

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  5. Comment to Planning Commission: Twenty-Two Neighboring Businesses

    Explains why the Commission cannot make the findings the Code requires.

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  6. Slides: What the Code Requires

    The presentation that accompanied the comment.

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  7. GRAMA Records Request to Park City

    Asks for the City's records on the Site.

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  8. Comment to Planning Commission: Thirteen Neighboring Businesses

    Comments submitted on behalf of thirteen neighboring Park City businesses.

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  9. Comment to Planning Commission: Two Neighboring Businesses

    Comments submitted on behalf of two neighboring Park City businesses.

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Independent coverage

In the press

Reporting from The Park Record. Links open on the publisher’s website.

  1. Park City leaders plan Bonanza Park project update amid temporary delay
  2. Bonanza Park development partnership requests temporary delay ahead of Wednesday meeting
  3. Park City vote on Bonanza Park proposal not scheduled for Oct. 14 meeting
  4. Park City development partnership provides breakdown of possibilities for Bonanza Park ground floors
  5. Park City Chamber/Bureau endorses disputed Bonanza Park development plans
  6. Park City development proposal involves a ‘Bonanza Promenade’ of storefronts
  7. We just disagree
  8. Journalism Matters: Business community mostly silent on 5-acre plan
  9. Park City planning panel hears scattered support for Bonanza Park development
  10. Park City business sectors scheduled for briefing about Bonanza Park development proposal
  11. Park City councilors weigh in as 5-acre proposal proceeds in Planning Commission
  12. Park City crowd, mostly critics, fills room for hearing about Bonanza Park development proposal
  13. Park City panel may cast vote on disputed Bonanza Park proposal in matter of weeks
  14. Park City panel hears testimony tilted against Bonanza Park proposal, but split in community is evident
  15. Park City development concept in Bonanza Park heads to first public hearing
  16. Park City’s 5-acre Bonanza site has green space, but critics question community value
  17. Park City development concept for Bonanza Park introduced to planning panel in cordial meeting

Official record

City resources

Planning Commission meetings

Counsel

Pro bono team

Larry Finder Larry Finder Matthew Boyden Matthew Boyden Ryan McConnell Ryan McConnell