A lake bottom platted, sold, and refinanced

A survey turned open hillside into Lot 509

Before there was a house here, there was a survey. In 2014, Ivory Development LLC filed the plat that made this ground into Lot 509, one piece of a new subdivision called Dry Creek Highlands Phase 5. The plat did what plats do: it drew lines across open land and gave the lines addresses. Yours is one of them. It went from acreage to inventory, from open hillside to a numbered lot waiting for a builder.

The company that platted it, Ivory Development LLC, worked the way production developers work across the growing suburbs at the north end of Utah County — buying ground, engineering streets and lots, and moving on. The subdivision took its name from Dry Creek, which drains the canyon above Highland toward Utah Lake, but the plat itself has nothing romantic in it. It is a legal instrument, recorded, indexed, and filed. It is the reason West Broadleaf Hollow Circle exists as a street at all.

Ivory Homes sold the finished house to Parkinson

On July 17, 2015, Ivory Homes Ltd finished the house on Lot 509 and sold it the same day to a man named Anthony G. Parkinson. He financed the purchase with a deed of trust, signed within hours of taking title. This is how most houses in Dry Creek Highlands changed hands that year: builder to buyer, buyer to bank, all in a single visit to the title company. Parkinson's name entered the record that afternoon and stayed there, alone, for five years.

There is no drama in a closing. No one was hurt, no fortune was made or lost, no scandal followed the transaction. It is simply the moment the house stopped being the builder's product and became someone's address — thirty paces from where the original plat lines were surveyed a year before.

Jocelyn Parkinson joined the title and the mortgage

Five years after Anthony Parkinson bought the house by himself, he added a second name to the title. On April 3, 2020, a warranty deed brought his wife, Jocelyn, onto the record as co-owner. The Parkinsons signed a new deed of trust the same day, refinancing the house under joint ownership.

It is a quiet thing to have happen on a piece of ground: not a birth, not a death, just two names where there had been one. But it is the only event this lot has generated since the house went up, and it went into the same drawer as everything else here — deed books, one after another, each a little more crowded than the last.

A serious crash struck an intersection down the road

The one sharp thing to happen near Lot 509 didn't happen on it. On a Saturday before noon, a motorcycle and a passenger car collided at 6000 West and Canal Boulevard, a crash serious enough to send one person to the hospital. KUTV covered it as a critical injury collision in Highland. It is the kind of local news that reminds a quiet subdivision it sits beside a working road, but the intersection is down the way, not underfoot — the sirens passed this lot without stopping.