Pro Bono Utah Litigation

Five-Acre Site,
Park City

R. McConnell Group represents nearly thirty Park City businesses, pro bono, in the dispute over the City’s plan to redevelop the Five-Acre Site at Bonanza Drive and Kearns Boulevard. Our clients run the restaurants, shops, and lodging on and around the Site.

Letters & filings

Our letters to the City, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, and the City’s records officer appear below, newest first.

  1. Letter to Records Officer: GRAMA 26-574 Narrowed Request

    Narrows our records request to six items and asks the City to waive the fee.

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  2. Comment to Planning: Record and Continuation

    Asks the City to put our earlier filings in the record and raises five points for the applicant's redesign.

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  3. Response to GRAMA Determination 26-574

    Asks the City to waive its $552.08 fee and explains the public interest in how the City spends up to $40 million on the Site.

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  4. Letter to Utah DEQ: Voluntary Cleanup Program File

    Asks the State for its cleanup file and whether it has reviewed the plans.

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  5. Comment to Planning Commission: Twenty-Two Neighboring Businesses

    Explains why the Commission cannot make the findings the Code requires.

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  6. Slides: What the Code Requires

    The presentation that accompanied the comment.

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  7. GRAMA Records Request to Park City

    Asks for the City's records on the Site.

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  8. Comment to Planning Commission: Thirteen Neighboring Businesses

    Comments submitted on behalf of thirteen neighboring Park City businesses.

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  9. Comment to Planning Commission: Two Neighboring Businesses

    Comments submitted on behalf of two neighboring Park City businesses.

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PLACE PC

www.place-pc.com

A coalition of Park City residents advocating for parks, local arts, and community enjoyment at the Five-Acre Site. In August 2026 PLACE PC delivered a citizen petition of 2,399 signatures asking the City Council to withdraw the proposal.

Status

The Planning Commission continued the public hearing to a date uncertain on October 14, 2026, at the applicant's request. No new date has been set.

Independent coverage

In the press

Reporting from The Park Record, KPCW, and TownLift. Links open on the publisher’s website.

The Park Record

  1. Park City receives open-records request from law firm seeking information about Bonanza Park development
  2. Park City businesses secure legal representation amid Bonanza Park talks
  3. Bonanza Park project criticized as trading "scenic mountain ridgelines for a dense urban wall"
  4. Park City leaders plan Bonanza Park project update amid temporary delay
  5. Bonanza Park development partnership requests temporary delay ahead of Wednesday meeting
  6. Park City vote on Bonanza Park proposal not scheduled for Oct. 14 meeting
  7. Park City development partnership provides breakdown of possibilities for Bonanza Park ground floors
  8. Park City Chamber/Bureau endorses disputed Bonanza Park development plans
  9. Park City development proposal involves a ‘Bonanza Promenade’ of storefronts
  10. We just disagree
  11. Journalism Matters: Business community mostly silent on 5-acre plan
  12. Park City planning panel hears scattered support for Bonanza Park development
  13. Park City business sectors scheduled for briefing about Bonanza Park development proposal
  14. Park City councilors weigh in as 5-acre proposal proceeds in Planning Commission
  15. Park City crowd, mostly critics, fills room for hearing about Bonanza Park development proposal
  16. Park City panel may cast vote on disputed Bonanza Park proposal in matter of weeks
  17. Park City panel hears testimony tilted against Bonanza Park proposal, but split in community is evident
  18. Park City development concept in Bonanza Park heads to first public hearing
  19. Park City’s 5-acre Bonanza site has green space, but critics question community value
  20. Park City development concept for Bonanza Park introduced to planning panel in cordial meeting

KPCW

  1. Park City Council to review 5-acre Bonanza Park plans in November
  2. Park City has spent over $24M on 5-acre Bonanza Park site
  3. Park City planners still concerned about 5-acre Bonanza Park parking, traffic plans
  4. Park City Planning Commission favors reduced Bonanza Park building heights
  5. Park City Planning Commission weighs Bonanza Park building height, traffic
  6. Park City group says thousands signed Bonanza Park petition
  7. Park City planners continue 5-acre Bonanza Park review
  8. Park City planners get close-up of Bonanza Park 5-acre site plans
  9. Park City Council approves preliminary 5-acre Bonanza Park plans

TownLift

  1. Bonanza Park development review pushed back as plans undergo design revisions
  2. 5-Acre Site Decision Nears as Planning Commission Eyes October Target

Official record

City resources

Planning Commission meetings

Pro bono team

Larry Finder Larry Finder Matthew Boyden Matthew Boyden Ryan McConnell Ryan McConnell