From Paul Tonks, resident Owners Association Board Member: For those of you that were unable to attend the SunCrest OA meeting on Tuesday, here are some highlights: Board chair Ralph Matson from Zion's took some time regarding the termination of the Zion's-MCO termination of the contract to purchase the undeveloped areas of SunCrest. Ralph said it was a mutual termination after MCO determined after its due diligence over the past 15 months that a purchase of SunCrest "would not fit their model." Probable factors may have been their plans for 200-300 homes above Deer Ridge (Unified Fire Dept. would not approve that many homes with only one road in and out of the subdivision because of safety concerns) and plans for making a substantial portion of new homes east of SunCrest Drive a gated community (Draper City didn't want such a large portion of the city closed off to residents, especially affecting easy access to hiking and biking trails in the national forest). Ralph emphasized that all parties, including Draper City, worked hard to make the deal happen. Zion's will continue to work to find a new developer. In the meantime, we will work to see what solutions we can find for short-term issues like opening the market.

High Density Housing in SunCrest

In perusing the proposed plans from MCO that MAY be presented at the Planning Commission meeting this Thursday or a subsequent meeting, several residents have concerns about the high-density, 20-unit per acre housing slated to go across the street from Mercer Reserve. From concerned residents: MCO looks to be a very attractive builder and potential buyer for the SunCrest area. We are privileged to have them take over the area. It is obvious that their primary interest is in the West Bluff and the Hog Hollow area. The areas of SunCrest that are already developed appear to get a little attention but the concern for all of us should be the High Density Housing areas they are proposing. This is not Condo but small apartment housing with an estimated 24 units per acre. As an example, the area marked “B” is approximately 60 acres in size and would house potentially 1000-1400 units. 1) these will not increase property values and will likely decrease them, 2) There is no real reason to have housing that dense in the area and would be better suited down the hill, 3) the traffic increase will be dramatic with an additional potential 1400 vehicles coming and going at least twice a day – the roads have blind spots that are difficult as is and will be much more dangerous with that amount of traffic. I appreciate that they need to develop the property but our concern should be the type of homes they are building. Fewer than 15 people from SunCrest were at the meeting to voice their opinion to MCO and Draper. The next meeting is June 7th. To date this is not an agenda item for this Thursday; however, stay tuned for further information. We will post what we find out.

Lost Secrets of Ancient North America

Take a look at what a couple of our SunCrest Residents are working on: Fascinating film project!