Two years ago in these pages I penned a commentary printed in The Salt Lake Tribune that decried the state of Utah’s preemption of municipalities’ planning and zoning authority as the state and Salt Lake County struggled mightily to locate a new solution for homeless services called a “resource center.” We were all promised that this new model would have a completely different look and provide services in a new way that would make the system more humane, more effective, and less of a burden on the neighborhoods surrounding these locales.
Today, none of those promises are fulfilled, explained or described as to how those services look and function.