by Isaac Riddle | Jan 3, 2018 | Editorial, Opinion, Salt Lake City
In the final days of 2017, Building Salt Lake received two distinctly different media releases from Salt Lake City’s two governing bodies, the City Council and Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s administration, touting each body’s perceived 2017 successes. For...
by Isaac Riddle | Dec 13, 2017 | Salt Lake City
In the face of rising rents and an increasingly limited housing supply, the Salt Lake City Council unanimously adopted the Growing SLC Housing Plan that will guide housing policy for the next five years as the city seeks to increase its housing stock. “It...
by Isaac Riddle | Nov 29, 2017 | Avenues, Downtown, East Bench, Salt Lake City
After several months of debate, during Tuesday’s work session the Salt Lake City Council decided that the affluent Avenues and East Bench neighborhoods should be exempt from a proposed citywide Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) ordinance. In exchange for...
by Mike Fife | Oct 2, 2017 | Central Ninth, Developments, In Pictures, Proposed, Salt Lake City, Under Construction
*This is the first of a two-part series looking at developments in the Central Ninth Neighborhood. For years, the area known as Central Ninth, though close to downtown, remained an affordable and sometimes dilapidated collection of single-family homes and small...
by Isaac Riddle | Jul 12, 2017 | Salt Lake City
It’s been over three years since then-mayor Ralph Becker initiated a petition to amend the city’s requirements for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU), but the proposed amendments are closer to becoming adopted. After tabling the ADU amendment in January, city...
