The Draper City Council held a study session and business session on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at 6:00 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting covered a detailed recap of Draper Days 2025, a discussion on the 13400 South connection, approval of three station area plans, and several other land use and administrative items. All action items were approved unanimously.
Next Steps: Staff to survey and design 13400 South connection; schedule study session on civic center plan; review newsletter delivery options; develop pickleball court regulations; update street tree guide.
Alright, I'll call this my meeting to order. Every the whole game. Welcome. Right. First item. Are we doing? Are you doing it? Yes. You're doing a recap of three days. Recap. David Wilkes, minus Ms. Trovert, who is six. Time is yours, sir. 280 cars in the car show. Wow. That's big. Draper Days 2025 graphic summary. We can start with attendance first. Who came to Draper Days? This year for the three days at Draper City Park, that's Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We had a total attendance of 43,100 people. The smaller number here represents last year's numbers. So last year we had about four to five thousand people. This year we had about 43,000 people, so 2,000 fewer. That's good than last year. If you look at the breakdown Thursday night, we had about 6,000 people in the park. Compared to last year, that's a significant increase. Last year we had about 4,000 this year. We had six, so quite a big increase at our attendance Thursday night at Drake Days. Thursday night at Draper City Park is the night of the car show and the children's fight break. Both events were well attended. The car show we think had more uh entrance entries than any other time. We had 280 cars participated in the creek. We had both sides of the creek filled, and that as far as we know is the largest that that you had. So great numbers on Thursday. Friday, we ended up with about 9,000 people. Last year we had about 15,000, so a significant decrease. This is the rainbow. That's the rain out, though. Absolutely. That's true. Pretty good attendance. And if you consider that the majority of the attendance takes place after 8 o'clock, and that's about the time we called it. So I think it would be safe to prognosticate that we would have a larger number, probably if we would have had if we would not have had the cancellation. Saturday night we counted, uh I should say our analytics platform tells us that we had about 28,000 people at Draper Park Saturday. That is actually more than what we had last year for Saturday. So although overall our attendance is off about 2,000, our attendance Saturday was actually greater than what it was last year. I agree. Yep. Saturday and Thursday.