The Park City Planning Commission is reviewing a modified proposal by the owners of a main house and a guest house on a hillside over Old Town to replace those structures with a new single-family home.
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company Cloudflare, and his wife, Tatiana Prince, who own The Park Record, purchased 220 King Road near Treasure Hill land in 2020. Their proposal is to turn what is now two nightly rentals into a single-family permanent home that would have a smaller footprint than what is currently on site.
At a Wednesday work session, attorney Wade Budge and architect Steve Grim, who represent the Princes, presented information to the commissioners on the project. If conditional use permits are approved, the plan would decrease the square footage, height and building area of the home.
A meeting scheduled last year to discuss the proposed project had been continued. In March, the Utah Legislature rejected a bill that would have permitted the Princes to build the house without getting city approval.
No decision was made Wednesday and more discussion is planned for a future meeting.
The buildings currently on the site have a footprint of about 4,000 square feet, which would be reduced to 3,500 feet, according to Wednesday’s presentation. There would be an option to build an accessory structure in the future, which if built, would be office space that would be buried completely underground.
Budge presented letters of support for the project from neighbors, including Pat Sweeney, who developed the original agreement with the city, the Park City Museum, the Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History and others who are knowledgeable about the town’s mining history. The project is designed to conform with historic residential guidelines.
“That’s been important because that was one of the things that influenced the design,” he said.
Budge said he will provide some architectural plans at the next meeting. The commissioners said they also want to discuss additional details about easements, excavations and the home’s proposed square footage compared to that of neighboring homes.
“Sub-standard access, steep slopes, soil and mining legacies, erroneous and illogical original plats, and complex utility, snow storage/removal and drainage issues all intersect with a strong public mandate to protect our historic district and Main Street character,” the report says. Proactively and responsibly addressing these sometimes-competing matters must be done in parallel with the equally important responsibility to respect private property rights and timely processing of new applications consistent with clear and published standards, as required by the State of Utah and constitutional principles.”