To keep up with a building boom, the Park City City Council has approved the town’s first elevator-inspection ordinance.
The ordinance is something of a revolution for the city of 5,500, which is composed primarily of several large mobile home parks, a few traditional housing subdivisions and a smattering of mostly single-story commercial buildings on its main drags.
The prime reason for the elevator ordinance is a development boom along Greenleaf Avenue.
In recent years, the street, on the west side of Park City, has evolved from a nondescript back road into a business corridor filled mostly with health-care providers.
Several multistory buildings are in the works for the Greenleaf corridor, all of which will have to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In most cases, the law requires buildings that are more than one story tall to have elevators.
“At first you’d wonder why we need this ordinance in Park City, because we don’t have any elevators in town,” Mayor Robert Allen said.
“But we know we have some coming; so the ordinance will go into effect when the first one comes in.”
The ordinance requires all elevator plans to be examined and elevators to be inspected during construction and once a year thereafter. Each inspection will cost $50.
