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Please boycott the helicoptor rides over Canyons....like this writer to the Park Record says, this is a travesty of major proportions to the peace and beauty of this town.
More like Iraq than mountain tranquility
Editor:
While enjoying one of our treasured summer days in my yard recently, I noticed a great deal of helicopter activity coming and going from the direction of The Canyons ski resort. Initially, I thought someone must be lost or injured? The following three days ... the same activity. I placed a call to The Canyons inquiring about the helicopters, at which point they informed me it was a company operating at the base of The Canyons three days per week Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and from Heber, flying over this area throughout the rest of the week. At this time it is unclear how many other private helicopter operators are also flying in this area.
I clearly understand Park City is a year-round tourist destination, with many wonderful things to offer. But please, let's not forget about the people who live and work in Park City and Summit County all year long. This noise pollution over the mountains is atrocious, environmentally unconscious, inconsiderate of the residents who live in this area, and creates many safety concerns as well. If you want to see the mountains, get out and hike or take a balloon ride.
If Park City's agenda is to encourage summer outdoor hiking, mountain biking, etc. etc. I think they just shot themselves in the foot. Who wants to be in the great outdoors "enjoying nature" in a helicopter flight path that sounds more like Iraq than mountain tranquility? I find it unsettling that an entire community and the animals that dwell in our mountains must be exposed to this noise so that two or three people can have a fifteen minute ride over the mountains.
A helicopter takeoff and landing several times per day and the echo this creates throughout the canyon is, in my view, a violation of the Summit County Noise Ordinance approved by the Summit County Board of Commissioners in February of 2006. Airports were created for the takeoff and landing of flight craft, not residential neighborhoods. Imagine, if we all decided to allow private operators to land and take off in our backyards? I encourage everyone to contact the Summit County Sheriff's Department and file a noise disturbance complaint, and the Summit County Board of Commissioners. Let's not forget this is an election year and it is the job of the City Council members to protect the citizens of this area.
Cheryl Fine-Whitteron Park City
More like Iraq than mountain tranquility
Editor:
While enjoying one of our treasured summer days in my yard recently, I noticed a great deal of helicopter activity coming and going from the direction of The Canyons ski resort. Initially, I thought someone must be lost or injured? The following three days ... the same activity. I placed a call to The Canyons inquiring about the helicopters, at which point they informed me it was a company operating at the base of The Canyons three days per week Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and from Heber, flying over this area throughout the rest of the week. At this time it is unclear how many other private helicopter operators are also flying in this area.
I clearly understand Park City is a year-round tourist destination, with many wonderful things to offer. But please, let's not forget about the people who live and work in Park City and Summit County all year long. This noise pollution over the mountains is atrocious, environmentally unconscious, inconsiderate of the residents who live in this area, and creates many safety concerns as well. If you want to see the mountains, get out and hike or take a balloon ride.
If Park City's agenda is to encourage summer outdoor hiking, mountain biking, etc. etc. I think they just shot themselves in the foot. Who wants to be in the great outdoors "enjoying nature" in a helicopter flight path that sounds more like Iraq than mountain tranquility? I find it unsettling that an entire community and the animals that dwell in our mountains must be exposed to this noise so that two or three people can have a fifteen minute ride over the mountains.
A helicopter takeoff and landing several times per day and the echo this creates throughout the canyon is, in my view, a violation of the Summit County Noise Ordinance approved by the Summit County Board of Commissioners in February of 2006. Airports were created for the takeoff and landing of flight craft, not residential neighborhoods. Imagine, if we all decided to allow private operators to land and take off in our backyards? I encourage everyone to contact the Summit County Sheriff's Department and file a noise disturbance complaint, and the Summit County Board of Commissioners. Let's not forget this is an election year and it is the job of the City Council members to protect the citizens of this area.
Cheryl Fine-Whitteron Park City
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