On Sunday, Dec. 11, the police received a report of a fire alarm sounding on the 1300 block of Lowell Avenue at 10:12 a.m. The alarm was triggered by bacon that had been burnt, the police said, and the emergency response was cancelled.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, the Park City Fire District was summoned to Main Street after someone reported toast had been burnt. The fire district response was cancelled, the police said.

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The final movie of the day will be permitted to start at 8:30 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. The Park City Council unanimously approved the change.

Sarah Pearce, who directs the festival's operations, said afterward the later starting time will result in a "calm transition between screenings." She said a screening room will usually be closed down for the evening within 2 1/2 hours of the start of the final movie of the day, depending on the length of the film. If that is the case, the screening room inside the Municipal Athletic & Recreation Center gymnasium should be closed down by about 11 p.m. instead of 10:30 p.m. previously.

In comments to Mayor Dana Williams and the City Council, Sundance officials described operational changes at the Municipal Athletic & Recreation Center meant to lessen impacts on the neighborhood. The site has been one of Sundance's trickiest to manage since the facility sits in a residential area steps from where people live.

The Sundance officials said they do not plan to put up a large tent, used for the wait-list ticket line, in the parking lot in 2012. The wait-list line instead will be put on the indoor tennis courts. That could cut down the amount of crowd noise outside, the elected officials were told. People will also wait for buses on the tennis courts, further cutting noise in the neighborhood.

A Sundance-authored outline of the operations submitted to the elected officials indicated the organizers will attempt to schedule shorter movies in the 8:30 p.m. time slot. Sundance staffers manning the theater will tell the audience before and after the last screening of each day to keep their voices down when they leave.

One longtime critic of Sundance's arrangements at the Municipal Athletic & Recreation Center spoke to the mayor and City Council on Thursday night, saying that moving the wait-list line will cut down the disturbances. Michelle Dietrich, though, said she prefers the 8 p.m. starting time over the 8:30 p.m. starts that were approved on Thursday. Dietrich, who lives close to the facility, said it is difficult for her and her husband to sleep during Sundance.

"That's a lot of noise late at night," Dietrich said.

Nobody else from the public testified.

The City Council did not spend extensive time discussing the later screening schedule before casting the vote. City Councilwoman Liza Simpson said people who live in Park City need to be flexible during Sundance. The mayor said festival organizers have worked with the neighborhood surrounding the Municipal Athletic & Recreation Center.

The screening room at the Municipal Athletic & Recreation Center is the second largest of the Park City-area theaters, trailing only the Eccles Center. It seated 602 people when the Racquet Club was standing. The screening room will return to Sundance's lineup in 2012 after a one-year absence as the Municipal Athletic & Recreation Center was built at the site of the Racquet Club.

The City Council in the same vote approved Sundance's request to move the New Frontier setup from Miners Hospital to The Yard on Kearns Boulevard.

The 2012 festival is scheduled Jan. 19-29. Festival organizers typically approach City Hall each year in the months ahead of the festival to tweak the operations.

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On Saturday, Sept. 24 at 5:06 p.m., the police fielded a report that two men and one woman might be staying in the hills. The person who contacted the police said they saw the people carrying food and water into a wooded area off Coalition View Court. They also parked a vehicle on Coalition View Court, the police were told.

The Police Department occasionally receives complaints about people living in the hills surrounding Old Town, sometimes on or close to the runaway truck ramp off the Mine Road. Coalition View Court is nearby the location of other reports filed in the past.

Camping within the Park City limits is prohibited.

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The Historic Preservation Board, which is the City Hall panel involved in Old Town building issues, plans to award a project annually with a piece of art. The artworks will hang at the Marsac Building.

High West Distillery undertook an ambitious renovation of the historic Watts property on Park Avenue close to the bottom of the Town Lift before opening in the buildings at the site.

The painting cost $750. City Hall provided the money for the piece, which was painted by the artist Sid Ostergaard.

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The trail starts at the Silver Star development and climbs to the Mid Mountain Trail. It passes the bottom terminal of Park City Mountain Resort's King Con lift. The trail winds more than four miles and gains 1,300 feet in altitude.

City Hall built the trail at a cost of approximately $40,000, with partial funding from a Summit County grant using taxes collected on restaurant sales.

Work started in the fall of 2010. Heinrich Deters, who manages City Hall's trails system, said the trail crosses land at Silver Star, PCMR and The Colony.

The route also takes the trail through City Hall land purchased as open space from the Armstrong family. The trail is named after the family. The 2009 purchase involved 135 acres at a price of $5 million.

"It provides public access to the publicly funded open space parcel," Deters said.

A large crowd of Park City officials, trail users and others attended the ceremony.

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Park City officials outlined the decision not to pursue a ballot measure in a prepared statement released on Thursday. They were facing a fast-approaching deadline to prepare one. State law would have required the decision to put a ballot measure to voters in November be made by Aug. 25. The deadline left little time for the two sides to craft ballot language for what likely would have been a polarizing request to voters to approve conservation bonds, perhaps totaling nearly $50 million, to fund a deal.

Negotiating teams from City Hall and the Sweeney family have spent more than a year trying to craft some sort of conservation deal that would encompass all or part of the prized Treasure land, situated on a hillside overlooking Old Town close to the route of the Town Lift.

The sides recently outlined two conservation options, one pegged at $48 million and the other priced at $15 million. The more expensive option would buy out all of the family's development rights on the Treasure land. The $15 million option would buy out some of the rights while also shifting some of the other development rights to a location uphill from the Park City Mountain Resort base area. The option also envisions some development on the Treasure land itself.

The price tags have not been finalized. Either option, though, would have split Parkites voting in November. The supporters would have argued that a conservation deal would reduce Treasure-related traffic and keep development off the high-profile hillside. The opponents likely would have painted Treasure as a neighborhood dispute and argued that a property-tax increase related to the bonds would have been ill timed.

The next chance City Hall has to put a Treasure ballot measure to voters is in June.

"It's not disappointing at all. I feel we believe this is a big decision . . . It needs to be done properly," said City Councilwoman Liza Simpson, one of City Hall's negotiators.

In Thursday's prepared statement, City Hall said the two sides would consider a ballot measure sometime in 2012. Simpson said that vote could be set for June.

A Treasure ballot measure probably would have overshadowed the three City Council spots that will be decided on Election Day. The campaign thus far has lacked drama, and there has been little apparent interest in the community during the early weeks of Election 2011.

In the meantime, City Hall and the Sweeney family in September will consider an agreement to continue the negotiations through the end of November, with the possibility of more extensions at that point.

The Sweeneys hold development rights at the site dating from the 1980s. The family spent years in talks about Treasure with the Park City Planning Commission with little progress. The development, as proposed to the Planning Commission, totaled approximately 1 million square feet of residential and commercial space.

The conservation negotiations have been ongoing for more than a year, exclusively in closed-door sessions. The two conservation options, which were recently made public, have been the most noteworthy advances in the negotiations.

Simpson said the negotiating teams want to better explain the two options before they are possibly put on a ballot. She said Parkites want the higher-priced option detailed better and want a clearer explanation of the amount of square footage that could be built under the lower-priced option.

"We're not ready to take this to the voters," Simpson said.

Mike Sweeney, one of the family's negotiators, said the discussions are "a lot more complex than people understand." He said, though, the two sides continue make progress in the talks.

"I'm very positive we're moving in a positive direction," Sweeney said.

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Police officers are again participating in Operation Chill, a program that partners law enforcement agencies with 7-Eleven to reward good behavior.

If a police officer notices a young person acting in a responsible manner, they may hand out a coupon for a regular-sized Slurpee from 7-Eleven.

Phil Kirk, a police captain, said the convenience store donates the coupons to the law enforcement agencies. The Police Department recently received its batch and has divvied up the coupons between the officers, who are allowed to give them out at their discretion. The police received 500 of the coupons.

Kirk said the officers will give them out to youngsters and teens. He said the officers will reward youngsters who display "all kinds of positive behavior."

An officer might give a Slurpee coupon to someone who is seen wearing a helmet while bicycling or skateboarding. They also might be rewarded for using a crosswalk while crossing a street or following traffic signals.

"It's a fun way to have a good, positive interaction with members of the public," Kirk said.

Kirk has given out Slurpee coupons to young people he has seen wearing helmets while bicycling or riding a skateboard.

The convenience-store chain says more than 10 million of the Slurpee coupons have been given out since the program started in 1995. Another 1 million of the coupons are anticipated to be awarded to youngsters this summer and early fall, 7-Eleven says, with the chain indicating the number of communities participating tops 300 this year.

The police have long tried to build strong relations with youngsters, hoping that a good relationship early on will lead to more trust when they get older.

"This is positive interaction," Kirk said.

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