The Utah Department of Transportation concluded that a gondola would be the best solution for the canyon’s transportation crush. Salt Lake County officials voted to condemn the proposal. Mere hours later, the Salt Lake City Council added its voice.
Latest vote comes after the Salt Lake County Council voted against the proposal, too, but Sandy City Council members are urging others to hold off on taking a position until UDOT completes its work.
City Council members unanimously approved a joint resolution Tuesday with Mayor Erin Mendenhall urging the removal of the gondola as an option to solve the canyon’s continued congestion woes.“Last night’s joint resolution was a reaction to what I feel is a lack of thorough review for environmental impacts,” Mendenhall said in a statement Wednesday, “with one of Salt Lake City’s chief concerns being negative effects on our watershed.
The resolution contends the environmental study failed to effectively consider many of the risks to water resources that the city raised throughout the process, including those associated with the construction and operation of the gondola, and the strain of increased visitation to the watershed. The Sandy leaders — Brooke D’Sousa, Scott Earl, Marci Houseman, Cyndi Sharkey and Alison Stroud — said they wanted UDOT to fulfill its duty to recommend the best possible solution. Whether that recommendation gets funded and implemented, they wrote, comes later.
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