I’ve lived in Park City full time for eight years. That’s not as long as a lot of you, yet I call this community home, consider myself very involved, and I care deeply about Park City and ensuring its future for generations to come.
This paper recently reported on the five most recent Park City mayors endorsing Ryan Dickey for the role.
I can’t speak to all of their administrations. I’ve met Dana, but his stewardship preceded my arrival. However, I did witness first hand what went down under Andy Beerman and Nann Worel. Having chatted with both, they strike me as lovely individuals. Like Dana, they’re smart, charismatic and seem well-intentioned.
Yet their terms as mayor are widely considered failures — increasing traffic, mismanaged growth, interminable and head-scratching surveys on the same topics, undisciplined marathon council meetings, shocking and serial lack of transparency, and lack of accountability.
They lost the Tour of Utah, Autumn Aloft, the Sundance Film Festival and the Kimball Art Center. We are about to lose Recycle Utah. In their terms, the city overpaid for land and negotiated bad deals, leaving taxpayers holding the bag . Two examples of several include the unbelievably opaque administrative approval leading to the Park City Mountain lift debacle, and defying residents and common sense by gifting Alterra bonus density, an invaluable public asset, and $15 million of taxpayer money. According to the city’s own City Council Candidate Orientation Packet, Park City’s operating expenses have exploded, growing over 57% just in the past four years!
Especially when their preferred candidate is considered the protege of Mayor Nann, in a sane world an endorsement from these former mayors should be the kiss of death for Ryan’s candidacy.
Want more of the same growth, traffic, and backroom deal making? Vote Ryan Dickey.
Want the change and transparency we thought we were all voting for in 2021? Elect political outsider and tireless community advocate Jack Rubin.
Rubin moved to Park City full time in 2014. Since then, he’s affected much positive change in this community from directly helping many of our front-line service workers and undocumented residents stay afloat during Summit County’s COVID shutdown to helping guide our city’s most recent General Plan update and much more.
The Parkites I know are eager for change. Change isn’t always easy. However, a change in leadership style — specifically how public process is managed, and the control special interests and developers hold over it — is exactly what Park City’s residents need.
Jack isn’t just the change we need — he’s the change residents of Park City deserve.
I back Jack for mayor.
Jimmy May
Park City