Homeless shelters soon could be allowed across most of Salt Lake City under a proposal that would overhaul how Utah’s capital regulates where they are located.
Before the moratorium, shelters were allowed as a conditional use in three zoning districts, clustered primarily around Interstate 15 and downtown. They could be approved by the planning commission and steer clear of council consideration.Planning Manager Kelsey Lindquist said during a Facebook livestream event Tuesday that restricting the shelters to specific zoning areas, either as a permitted use or conditional use, is not equitable.
Planning officials spent the spring and summer talking to other city departments, service providers, businesspeople, advocates and people experiencing homelessness to figure out how to improve the road map to building new shelters.
“As long as they have the support and the case management, I think it’s kind, it’s reasonable, it’s fair,” she said. “Because there are going to be a whole series of criteria that people are actually looking at, plus people are going to be able to give feedback on.”, said the proposal only complicates the path to building more shelters because it focuses on the negative effects of the facilities and gives project opponents more time to organize.
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