Herriman • The rebooted version of Olympia Hills, a high-density community development proposed west of Herriman, is going to face tough scrutiny, judging from the project’s first airing Wednesday.
About 200 people gathered at Herriman’s Bastian Elementary School — roughly 4 miles east of where the 938-acre development would be built — to study its details and to question developers about the effects on their neighborhoods from adding as many as 22,000 new residents to this corner of southwest Salt Lake County.
Added traffic, increased water demand, school crowding and an implicit threat to their rural quality of life seemed foremost on people’s minds Wednesday evening, as residents looked at a series of display boards about Olympia Hills in the school auditorium and watched a looping promotional video on the project.