Three bad candidates will secure a fourth. An interesting point from the recent financial disclosures: Tana Toly donated to Diego Zegarra, and Diego donated to both Tana and Ryan Dickey. Take note: If these three win, they will appoint the fifth seat, likely Beth Armstrong. Armstrong, a failed primary candidate, faces conflicts whether you look north to her husband, Roger, on the County Council or south, to her employer at Deer Valley East Village (REEF Capital). Glaring conflicts of interest.
If Dickey and Toly form a voting bloc with Diego, independent thinking on our City Council will end. The paralyzing status quo of the past decade will continue — but your tax dollars won’t be secure.
They are doing exactly what they accuse other council members of doing. Their “winning majority” recently approved another $725,000 study for a road at Clark Ranch — a study that could leave taxpayers on the hook for at least $20 million more to support a “non-affordable” affordable housing project.
My husband helped provide housing for more than 4,500 seasonal workers and guided approval of Studio Crossing’s 208 units — all at zero cost to taxpayers. Ryan voted against it, while Tana voted for it.
The so-called EngineHouse project behind the Boneyard is a $8 million-$9 million mistake — 99 units of ugly architecture at enormous cost. They pushed it through without real accountability. Affordable housing can be done responsibly, but Dickey voted for it, while Toly voted against it.
Then there’s Diego. He’s a resident and board member of the Kings Crown affordable development — yet under his leadership, the HOA has issued repeated cash calls without providing the required accounting to residents. How does someone with his income even qualify for affordable housing? Transparency is overdue.
Since 2021, the city budget has exploded from $58 million to more than $95 million — a 55% increase. What do we have to show for it? A bloated City Hall, inflated salaries, and an eyesore at Kearns and Bonanza. Add to that endless consultant fees and studies — like the “vision” for Swede Alley and Marsac so poorly conceived that staff told residents to ignore their own renderings because they couldn’t even produce a scaled drawing.
Park City deserves leaders who protect our money, stop reckless insider deals, and restore accountability at City Hall. That’s why we should elect Jack Rubin for Mayor and Jeremy Rubell for City Council. They will end costly, open-checkbook development disasters. I don’t even want to think about Diego with our money.
Drive southwest of the Boneyard and look at the EngineHouse — a hulking, Soviet-bloc-style structure that Dickey and Worel tout. Then imagine four or five more of these, each costing $10 million–20 million of your tax dollars. That’s the future we face unless we change course now.
Please vote — every vote will count in this election.
Nancy Davidson
Old Town