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Regional housing policyCompiled from public sources • August 11, 2026

Three governments, one regional housing problem

Park City Municipal, Summit County, and Wasatch County run independent housing programs with separate staff, plans, and funding tools. This page maps who does what, and how their approaches differ.

Park City detail

Park City’s own goal, pipeline, and project tracker live on the municipal housing dashboard. County-level programs have their own pages: Summit County and Wasatch County.

Who governs what

Separate goals, metrics, and toolkits

All three governments must maintain a Moderate Income Housing Plan under Utah law, but each writes its own. Park City is the only one with a codified inclusionary mandate and the only one that has replaced AMI with a local Workforce Wage.

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Park City Municipal

City limits only (84060)

1,864 total workforce units by 2032 — 15% of the projected workforce living in city limits

Locally derived Workforce Wage (WFW) since June 2025, replacing federal AMI for eligibility tiers

Lead bodies

  • Affordable Housing Department
  • Planning Commission & City Council
  • Land Management Code (20% inclusionary on MPD residential)

Tools in use

  • Codified 20% inclusionary requirement
  • City-owned land leased at nominal cost
  • Transient Room Tax-backed investment
  • LIHTC partnerships
  • Deed restrictions with resale controls
Needs confirmation

Summit County

Unincorporated areas: Snyderville Basin, Kimball Junction, Silver Creek, Kamas Valley, Coalville

Roughly 1,500 affordable and attainable units by about 2035 — described by county officials as directional

Federal AMI: 80% baseline on most deed restrictions, pushing toward 55% on newer deals, with a 30–50% AMI rental voucher pilot

Lead bodies

  • Summit County Housing Authority (formed 2025–26)
  • Snyderville Basin & Eastern Summit County Planning Commissions
  • County Council

Tools in use

  • Deed restrictions
  • ADU pilot program
  • Voluntary inclusionary zoning with density bonuses
  • Land banking
  • Rental voucher pilot
  • Proposed affordable-housing overlay zone
  • Proposed Kimball Junction HTRZ
Needs confirmation

Wasatch County

Unincorporated Heber Valley, Daniel, Charleston, and the Jordanelle/MIDA resort area

2026 General Plan targets more homes below 80% AMI; no numeric unit target publicly located

Federal AMI: 80% threshold is about $109,000 for a family of four, one of Utah's highest county incomes

Lead bodies

  • Wasatch County Housing Authority (7-member board)
  • Wasatch County Planning Commission
  • County Council

Tools in use

  • Impact fee deferrals and waivers
  • Fee-in-lieu payments
  • Land donations
  • Direct WCHA capital contributions
  • Proposed impact-fee doubling (May 2026)
  • Exploring Park City-style ground leases
  • LIHTC financing

Income context

Wealth skews the yardstick

Summit County carries roughly the highest county median income in Utah and Wasatch County the second; Park City's Workforce Wage rental ceiling sits far below both, which is the gap the WFW shift is designed to expose.

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Summit County median household income (2024)

$138,100

The highest county-level income in Utah, inflated by wealthy full- and part-time residents, per the county's Lightcast report.

Needs confirmation

Wasatch County 80% AMI (family of four)

~$109,000

Even the 80% affordability threshold sits near six figures, second only to Summit County statewide.

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Park City affordable-rental ceiling

$85,646

100% of Workforce Wage for a three-person household (2025), equal to just 56% of AMI — the gap the WFW shift was designed to expose.

Work & wages

The biggest employers pay the least

In both counties the tourism-facing sectors are simultaneously among the largest employers and the lowest paid — the exact population the Workforce Wage and AMI-based programs target. Wasatch County's biggest sector is instead construction, which pays well but faces the same housing costs, which is why attainable housing became its own tier.

Summit County

BLS Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages, 2025 annual figures

Summit County employment and wages by industry
IndustryJobsShareAvg. wage
Accommodation & Food Services7,54428.2%$45,315
Arts, Entertainment & Recreation4,11215.4%$51,997
Retail Trade3,71013.9%$45,912
Construction2,97111.1%$73,562
Health Care & Social Assistance2,2918.6%$69,952
Professional, Scientific & Technical1,5745.9%$133,509
Real Estate & Rental/Leasing1,3635.1%$82,798
Admin & Support Services1,2644.7%$71,066
Manufacturing1,0113.8%$92,887
Other Services9353.5%$61,036

Wasatch County

BLS Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages, 2025 annual figures

Wasatch County employment and wages by industry
IndustryJobsShareAvg. wage
Construction2,13624.4%$80,970
Retail Trade1,43716.4%$41,238
Health Care & Social Assistance1,37915.7%$53,148
Accommodation & Food Services1,35415.4%$27,301
Professional, Scientific & Technical8199.3%$96,687
Admin & Support Services4865.5%$57,815
Arts, Entertainment & Recreation4214.8%$34,834
Real Estate & Rental/Leasing2713.1%$71,005
Wholesale Trade2552.9%$69,099
Finance & Insurance2102.4%$81,425

Jobs inside Park City limits

Needs confirmation
  • Professional, Scientific & Technical Services10.9%
  • Real Estate & Rental & Leasing10.8%
  • Health Care & Social Assistance9%
  • Accommodation & Food Services8.4%
  • Arts, Entertainment & Recreation8.2%

BLS publishes no city-level QCEW data, so these shares come from Census ACS place-of-work estimates built on a small sample — directional, not exact.

An unresolved commute conflict

Needs confirmation
  • Park City tracker: ~12% of the ~12,000-person workforce lives in city limits
  • City-Data commute figures: ~3,500 of ~12,000 zip-code workers also live there (~29%)
  • Lightcast ZIP data (2025): 84060 holds 14,338 jobs but only 5,740 resident workers (40% — residents who may work elsewhere)

These measure different things — workforce vs. resident workers, city limits vs. ZIP — and cannot all be right as commonly quoted. Kept visible until reconciled.

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Summit jobs vs. population, 2020–2025

+24.6% vs +1.6%

Jobs are growing roughly fifteen times faster than population; commuters absorb the difference.

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84060 net in-commuters (2025)

+8,598

Lower Park City holds 14,338 jobs but only 5,740 resident workers.

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Net loss to Wasatch County, 2023

155 people

The #2 destination for Summit County leavers — the priced-out release valve in county-sourced migration data.

Full jobs, wages, commuting, and migration detail is on the Summit County economy page.

County pipelines

Named projects outside Park City limits

Unit figures are as reported in county documents and local press; most proposals are still moving through review, so counts marked for confirmation should not be summed into any delivery total.

Summit County

The Settlement at Jeremy Ranch

Jeremy Ranch

172Needs confirmation

Developer: Cline Dahle.

Lincoln View / Rasmussen Road

Snyderville Basin

168–216Needs confirmation

Range reflects proposals still moving through review.

Altus Park City / Six Ridge

Kimball Junction

885Needs confirmation

Largest single proposal in the unincorporated county.

Innovation Park

Francis

16Verified

Opened September 2025.

Liberty Ranches

Promontory

40Needs confirmation

Silver Creek Village

Silver Creek

~330Needs confirmation

Historical workforce units, with new proposals surfacing in 2025.

Wasatch County

Celebration Workforce Housing

1200 S & 350 E, Heber City, beside Wasatch High School

230 + 89-room hotelNeeds confirmation

50 units earmarked for school-district staff; groundbreaking targeted around spring 2027.

Parkview Place

Southfield Road, Heber City

49 lotsVerified

Mountainlands sweat-equity model since 2017; 6 homes complete as of August 2026.

Jordanelle Ridge

Heber City

0 on-siteNeeds confirmation

200 planned on-site units converted to a $7M fee-in-lieu; AMI target loosened from 80% to 120% in a 2025 renegotiation the county housing authority publicly objected to.

MIDA Jordanelle — Pioche Condos

North of Deer Valley's Jordanelle gondola

42Verified

Approved June 2024.

MIDA Jordanelle — Marina West

East of US-40 at Jordanelle Reservoir

Up to 600Needs confirmation

Developer: Extell. Planned, not approved.

How the three connect

Shared partner, separate systems

Legally and administratively independent, the three governments share one nonprofit delivery partner and increasingly borrow each other's tools.

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One delivery partner

Mountainlands Community Housing Trust builds and administers deed-restricted homes for all three governments, making it the only organization with standing in every jurisdiction.

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Three separate front doors

Each government runs its own housing office, waitlist, and deed-restriction inventory. Qualifying with one confers no standing with the others.

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Ideas migrate, budgets don't

Wasatch County has studied Park City's ground-lease model and both counties negotiate affordability case by case, while Park City is alone in codifying an inclusionary mandate.

Needs confirmation

Intergovernmental friction is real

In July 2025 the Wasatch County Housing Authority publicly objected to Heber City's Jordanelle Ridge restructuring, which shifted subsidy burden onto county-funded programs.

Sources & open questions

What this page can and cannot yet verify

Compiled from official county and city sources plus local reporting. Items below the register are known gaps, kept visible rather than papered over.

Source register

Needs confirmation

Wasatch County's current standalone Moderate Income Housing Plan was not publicly locatable; the posted link returns a 404.

Needs confirmation

Park City's 2025 MIHP update (reported 1,190-unit target, ~955-unit pipeline, ~235-unit gap) could not be fetched from the city's document link and stays unconfirmed here.

Needs confirmation

Whether Summit County has run a dedicated housing bond is unresolved; several sources conflate Summit County, Utah with Summit County, Colorado.