Park City Spring Construction Brings Closures, Transit Upgrades, and Hazardous Waste Event

The SR-224 corridor between Sun Peak Drive and White Pine Canyon Road enters its most consequential construction phase this spring, with High Valley Transit launching full Bus Rapid Transit work that will reshape the key artery connecting Park City to the greater Wasatch Front through at least 2028. For the roughly 8,500 residents who depend on that corridor daily, the project represents the single largest near-term disruption to commute and access patterns in the region.

High Valley Transit began utility work along SR-224 in fall 2025, shifting traffic to shoulders and narrowing nighttime flow to one lane in each direction between Sun Peak Drive and White Pine Canyon Road. Full construction begins this spring. When finished, the corridor will feature a reconfigured roadway and wider, grade-separated trail sections. Cyclists were directed to the existing paved trail alongside the corridor during the utility phase, an accommodation the completed design will expand.

That timeline lands squarely on the desk of Adam Lenhard, who was unanimously appointed permanent city manager by the Park City Council and took office March 31, three days ago. Lenhard previously ran city operations in both St. George and Clearfield, Utah. He inherits a city that absorbed a rapid executive transition: former City Manager Matt Dias departed September 10, 2025, for the private sector, with Deputy City Manager Jodi Emery stepping in as acting city manager the same day. Emery, a Park City native who came to the Marsac Building from a role as associate dean for administrative operations at the University of Utah, held the acting position until Lenhard's appointment.

Dias had restructured Park City's management layer just months before leaving. In April 2025, he simultaneously hired two deputy city managers: Emery and Heather Sneddon, an attorney with a complex litigation background at Salt Lake City's Anderson & Karrenberg who had more recently worked in real estate at Summit Sotheby's. Sneddon oversees Housing and Economic Development, Planning, and Engineering — the portfolios most directly tied to construction pressure and the housing affordability questions that residents raise persistently. Dias described the dual hire as "a strategic decision to align each leader's strengths with the city's evolving needs." Mayor Ryan Dickey, who took office in early January 2026 alongside new councilors Diego Zegarra and Molly Miller, will work with Lenhard as the city navigates both the BRT disruption and preparations for the 2034 Winter Olympics.

Construction pressure extended to Main Street last summer. On June 24, 2025, Park City Municipal closed the stretch from Heber Avenue to Swede Alley for a full-day slurry seal application, a preventative surface treatment. Deliveries to businesses along the block were strongly discouraged for the duration.

On the environmental front, Summit County's biannual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day drew residents to the Silver King Lot at the Mountain Village Base of Park City Mountain Resort on April 26, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Organizers specifically flagged a location change from the familiar Cabriolet Lot, where the event had been held in previous years. A fall edition followed September 27, 2025, at the same Silver King location.

The event is free and open exclusively to Summit County residents; business waste is turned away at the gate. Accepted materials include paints, solvents, automotive fluids, pesticides, batteries, and electronics. The Bicycle Collective, one of the event's partners alongside Recycle Utah, Park City Municipal, Summit County, the Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District, and Park City Rotary Club, accepts bikes in any condition: serviceable bikes fund charitable programs or are donated, and unsalvageable parts are recycled rather than landfilled.

Recycle Utah, founded in 1991 as the Park City Conservation Association when it was the only recycling option in Park City, now diverts approximately 3.5 million pounds of material from the Summit County Landfill annually, serves more than 400 vehicles per day, and reaches more than 5,000 students each year through its education programs. The next collection dates and full materials list are posted on Recycle Utah's website.