Even though you know, through anecdotes and experience, that something is happening doesn’t mean that those impressions are true across the board. The city’s department of Community and Neighborhoods and City Council received the results last week of an impressively...
What happens if a city doesn’t follow its own laws? Not an outdated, inconsequential ordinance but one that is directly linked to public space, personal safety, freedom of movement, and environmental health? In late May, the Salt Lake City Attorney’s Office was served...
On the west side of Downtown Salt Lake City, 400 West seems like the perfect stretch of street for a light rail extension. Lots of new high-density housing is being built nearby in the Depot and Granary districts of the city, and residents of those units would...
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As the number of people living in Downtown Salt Lake City continues to grow by the thousands, city leaders seem serious about continuing their summer weekend “Open Streets” experiment - and possibly making permanent a Main Street closed to cars in the city’s center...
The proposed changes aren’t all about making taller buildings. The city aims to accommodate growth in the Downtown area and create more safe, livable public spaces at the same time.
A new proposal for accessory dwelling units (ADUs) was released this week at city hall, a story we are following as a part of a cluster of massively important land use ordinances under review. They include affordable housing incentives city-wide, an infill ordinance...
The Salt Lake City Council is sitting on a stack of major policy updates awaiting a final decision, and the list is about to grow significantly. Employees in the Planning Division are preparing to release several pieces of hot-ticket ordinance updates that will add to...
Earlier this week, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall laid out her $424 million general fund budget (of a total $1.5 billion when including “enterprise funds” like water, sewers, street lighting, golf courses and the airport). By means of comparison, just ten...
Everybody says it's happening. Gentrification. Demand for luxury apartments in Salt Lake’s hot rental market is driving up rents across the city. New luxury units, condo conversions, and public spending on plazas, trails, rail, and bike paths are all evidence that a...
Hoping to include “ongoing accountability” by the city and developers to the community, city staffers briefed the City Council last night on the next steps for the Fleet Block, an 8.75-acre city-owned parcel vacant since 2010. The highlights: The Mendenhall...
So close to Downtown, yet hemmed in by freight rail, Interstate highways and massive utility company compounds, the near west side of Salt Lake City near the North Temple corridor poses unique challenges for urban, walkable, transit-oriented development. Along the...