The Utah Legislature has enough on its plate without reaching over and grabbing some of the most important stuff from the tray of Salt Lake City government.
It is not as if city and state officials don’t agree — generally — on the great economic development potential for what’s called the city’s Northwest Quadrant.
The largely vacant area near the booming Salt Lake International Airport and the under-construction state prison clearly has the potential to attract and support all kinds of new businesses. Leaders of both jurisdictions agree that the proximity of the airport, two Interstate highways, rail lines, combined with infrastructure upgrades that will come as part of the prison project, provide fertile ground for a bumper crop of industrial, warehousing, transportation and support development.