Salt Lake City gambles on northern-end open space.

From: The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT) | Date: December 15, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Heather May

Dec. 15--Salt Lake City took the risk.

On Tuesday, City Council members voted to try to protect from development what is considered to be one of the last undeveloped segments of the ancient Lake Bonneville shoreline. In doing so, the city could be sued and the property could be developed more extensively than now proposed.

The council rejected North Salt Lake's petition for a boundary adjustment that would have allowed the northern neighbor to build 10 acres of housing, put in a 23-acre cemetery and protect 47 acres as open space. North Salt Lake ...

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