Derek Kitchen, a small-business owner and gay-marriage history maker, will leave his last meeting as a Salt Lake City councilman Tuesday night.
In January, the 30-year-old Kitchen will take on a new challenge, replacing outspoken Sen. Jim Dabakis as one of the few Democrats in the Utah Legislature. And while he told The Salt Lake Tribune that he’s looking forward to the work he can accomplish at the Capitol, he said his last evening on the council was “bittersweet.”
“From a policy perspective, I will miss having important conversations around land use and zoning and neighborhood development,” he said.