The focus of the following list is the problems that the
Greater Avenues Community Council has experienced with the
Salt Lake City Planning and Building Services Departments.
We
have debated including the street addresses in these
descriptions. It was decided that in order for residents to
appreciate the details of each case, being able to see the
properties first hand was important.
That said, if you decide
to view these properties yourself, please restrict your visit
to a quiet walk past the property and always behave in a
manner showing the same amount of regard for the occupant's
privacy that you would want for yourself.
Our concerns are not
with the owners and residents but with the manner in which
Planning and Building Services have failed all members of the
community. Lastly, remember that many of the project owners as
well as adjacent residents have been through some very
emotional battles. Please do not unnecessarily add to the
damage that has already been done.
We do appreciate that many of these issues are complicated.
Our concerns can be grouped into two categories:
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City advocacy in favor of permit applicants and
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Failure to enforce the dimensional restrictions on
finished buildings as permitted by Salt Lake City Building
Services and Planning Departments.
The real and unfortunate consequence of both these issues
is that neighbor is pitted against neighbor and the fabric of
a community is significantly damaged.
Lastly, we recommend beginning with the case on 667 Wall
Street for several reasons.
This case is the most recent. Many
of the issues we are currently facing were evident in what
many would regard as the first big controversial case, 675 8th Avenue. Had the issues around that project been dealt with in
the last two years you would not be reading this now.
Unfortunately, the 677 Wall case also contains many of the
issues of concern in one unfortunate example. Lastly, the
description of the 677 Wall case is probably the easiest place
to begin in gaining an appreciation of just how things are
being managed. Also, it is important to keep in mind that with
th exception of 675 8th Avenue, all of these cases
have had some active component in the last six months and most
have had some active issue in the last six weeks as of May
29th, 2007.
We do want to point out that 677 Wall is in the Capitol
Hill Community Council district. We feel that it is important
to include here because of our first hand knowledge of this
case, its proximity to the GACC district, its recency, and the
fact that this case occurred in the SR-1A district which
comprised a majority of the residential properties in both the
GACC and CHCC districts.
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