After three years of legal wrangling, the Utah Supreme Court has doused Park City Mountain’s 2022 plan to replace two lifts on the ski area’s Mountain Village side.

In an opinion issued Thursday, the Utah Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court ruling that the proposal was inconsistent with the resort’s 1998 development agreement. That means the project could not be granted an expedited conditional-use permit and could be questioned by the Park City Planning Commission.

The planning commission had questioned whether the Park City Mountain and its owner/operator Vail Resorts, Inc., accurately determined its Comfortable Carrying Capacity and the parking the resort would need to provide to accommodate the users of the two lifts that it sought to update.

The resort will continue to seek

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