Salt Lake City Council members have a number of tough decisions to make in the coming days. During the council’s work session meeting last week, council members tinkered with budget items and debated which community organizations would get federal grant funds...
It’s not every day that the Salt Lake City Council gets a local legend speaking at a Community Reinvestment Agency (CRA) meeting. But on Tuesday, that’s exactly what happened. Nick Rimando — the longtime Real Salt Lake goalkeeper — advocated in favor of a...
The 2025 Utah legislative session levied punitive laws against Salt Lake City at a level not previously seen, according to Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall. On Friday, the mayor decried the state Legislature’s aggression toward the capital city, saying the state...
Salt Lake City Council members will allocate millions of dollars in city funds for West Side homeowners as part of a program to promote building accessory dwelling units — a first in the city’s history. The city’s Community Reinvestment Agency adopted a...
After years of delay, Salt Lake City is moving forward with its long-awaited plan of redeveloping the 8.75-acre property southwest of Downtown known as the Fleet Block. With the erection of a construction fence and arrival of excavators, wrecking crews began the...
Utah’s latest 45-day legislative session is over, with state lawmakers making slight changes to housing policy and focusing more on larger developments and funding existing projects. A number of the Legislature’s housing policy bills were passed in the final hours of...
Seeking to catalyze a long-languishing redevelopment area in west Downtown, Salt Lake City’s Community Reinvestment Agency (formerly RDA) has officially started the zoning change process to dramatically increase the allowable height on the two blocks directly west of...
The 2025 Utah Legislative session ends at midnight on Friday, and the efforts around housing policy have left several policy makers disappointed. As the state’s housing bills move closer to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk, it’s clear the Legislature has opted for making...
Changes may be coming to Salt Lake City’s paid parking policies. City leaders agreed that parking should cost more, and additional neighborhoods should be subject to paid parking. Council members made it clear Tuesday that they might overhaul city parking policies...
The U.S. General Services Administration has announced that the Federal Government’s administrative hub in Downtown Salt Lake City is surplus to requirements, and will be sold. The Wallace F. Bennett building, at 125 South State Street, occupies an important corner at...
In Thursday's meeting of the House Transportation Committee, legislators moved Senate Bill 195 one step closer to passage. The vote was along partisan lines with ten yeas from Republicans and two nays from Democrats. I was at the capitol in attendance as part of the...
A newly proposed bill in the Utah Legislature would alter the landscape of the Fairpark by allowing multiple, smaller sports venues — not just a baseball stadium — at the Utah State Fairpark and the Power District, which is aspiring to bring Major League Baseball to...