The Northpoint Small Area Plan is an environmental injustice
Another plan to completely degrade the Wasatch Front’s quality of life is gaining opposition. Developers are looking to turn Northpoint, one of Salt Lake’s remaining rural havens, into a new warehouse district.
We already have the Inland Port’s warehouse district being built in the Northwest quadrant, threatening our air quality and water conservation efforts.
UPHE signed onto the Center for Biological Diversity and the Great Salt Lake Audubon’s online petition against the development plan.
A KSL article covering last week’s City Council meeting quotes resident Denise Payne, “2200 West has been turned into a terrifying and dangerous road for us with all of this construction,” she said. “It’s too dangerous to walk or ride a bike on 2200 West. They shake our homes every day. … We can’t live there. Our quality of life is gone.”
Please voice your concerns to the City Council. Their last vote in December was favorable to the flawed plan, 7-2.
Mayor Mendenhall also expressed concerns with the plan, “I am concerned that removing the limit on distribution land uses will negatively impact the existing rural characteristics of the area, potentially increase the amount of air pollution generated by the future use of land in the area, and expand the amount of land in the city that is available for warehouse and distribution uses. The Northpoint plan boundary is unique … and any future planning should be sensitive to the existing context and rural nature of the area.”