While the city’s intense lobbying beat back proposals to strip Salt Lake of its ability to protect the canyon watershed, it got rolled on the creation of a commission to develop a massive shipping port on 20,000 acres in the city’s undeveloped northwest corner.
According to City Councilman Charlie Luke, the bill takes away taxing authority and land use planning for a third of Salt Lake City’s geographic footprint and gives it to the inland port development board.
While the decisions were being made, the mayor was in Mexico City for a Women4Climate conference on global warming.