A signature on a bill from the governor this week might be all that stands between builders and development of a large hotel and major motion picture studio at Quinn’s Junction.

State legislation passed in March would allow builders to bypass strict local zoning codes to develop a massive studio alongside an 800-room hotel under the Military Installation Development Authority Act, which officials sometimes refer to as MIDA.

April 1 is the deadline for Gov. Jon Huntsman to sign the controversial bill into law.

Key elected officials in Summit County say they want the governor to veto the legislation. They met with Huntsman behind closed doors last week to lobby against Senate Bill 216.

Before making his decision the governor will consider feedback from all sides, Huntsman spokeswoman Lisa Roskelley said in a telephone interview.

“It should be understood that it wasn’t necessarily a request to veto the bill, but the conversation essentially came to this point, that they needed to work together and figure out how this plan would go forward, and how the issue is going to be dealt with,” Roskelley said about meetings local officials had with Huntsman.

Instead of Quinn’s, Summit County Councilman Chris Robinson said he hopes the military picks a site near The Canyons for discount lodging for soldiers.

But builders envision the project near the Park City limits at the junction of U.S. 40 and State Road 248.

“They’ve got senior people at the Air Force who want to see this happen,” Robinson said.

SB 216 would allow the military and private landowners to cooperate to build recreation facilities in smaller counties while bypassing local planning regulations.

For several years local authorities have stymied development of an Air Force hotel in Park City, according to state Sen. Mark Madsen, the Lehi Republican who sponsored SB 216.

But Robinson insists Summit County is not anti-military.

“We want to be cooperative, but we also want to be respected at the same time,” Robinson said in a telephone interview.

Park City would work closely with military officials on the hotel even if Huntsman signs SB 216, City Manager Tom Bakaly said Tuesday.

The Air Force wants lodging in a ski town to replace a small hotel it operated at Snowbasin about a dozen years ago.

But 800 rooms would make the project proposed at Quinn’s Junction the largest hotel in Utah, he stressed.

“We think a right-sized hotel makes sense, but not the biggest one in the state, and not at Quinn’s,” Bakaly said.

By comparison, The Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City has about 775 rooms and the Grand Summit Hotel at The Canyons has about 356.

“We think that hotels, especially resort-oriented hotels, belong near the base of the resort. Our experience is that highway hotels struggle,” Bakaly said.

And traffic congestion already clogs Quinn’s Junction at rush hour, Summit County Councilman John Hanrahan said in a telephone interview Tuesday.

“Summit County absolutely wants the Air Force,” Hanrahan said. “What we don’t like is circumventing local planning and zoning to do that.”