Salt Lake City • A proposed 8,800-home development was thrust into the campaign for Utah’s sole battleground House district Monday, as local residents plotted a referendum to kill the project.
Republican Rep. Mia Love called on her opponent, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, to block the proposal by vetoing the necessary zoning reforms.
McAdams, a Democrat, worked to delay the plan last week, but Love dismissed that as him “trying to look like a power broker” amid rising public opposition.
Love, the two-term lawmaker, said in a Facebook post that McAdams initially refused to listen to residents’ concerns about the proposal and instead accepted more than $10,000 in donations from its developers.