The framework for an international trade hub in Salt Lake City that could deliver a tax windfall to Utah and redraw how overseas goods move into and around the Western United States is now in draft form in the state Capitol in a bill that the host city’s officials quickly denounced for usurping their control over taxing and zoning.
Introduced Tuesday by Sen. Jerry Stevenson, R-Layton, with broad legislative support including House and Senate leadership, SB234 would create a self-governing agency with authority to administer an area covering more than 38 square miles in northwest Salt Lake City.