All three candidates for Salt Lake City's mayoral seat jockeyed over how they would handle issues in the city, especially the west side, during a forum Tuesday night.
The experience, he said, turned out to be fairly instrumental in his decision to run for office, as he pushes for what he said would be a more transparent office.
"In some alternate reality, I'm not up here running for office, I would be working with the mayor. I'd be the director of the theater over there — but she wouldn't meet with me," he said. "I'm a resident, I'm a voter, how can I not meet with my own mayor? It seems insane."All of the questions focused on key west side issues. And for as many fireworks that flew over leadership, there were some issues that the candidates seemed to agree on, to an extent.
All three agreed that something must be done to ensure that west side residents aren't priced out of their homes in the future, which is where Mendenhall referenced the Thriving In Place anti-gentrification plan thatThey also seemed to agree about environmental concerns, including dust from the Great Salt Lake, and that more should be done to better connect the marginalized west side with the rest of the city.
The Salt Lake City mayoral candidates came together for their first forum Wednesday to discuss housing and homelessness ahead of the city's November election. The candidates appeared to be the most distant when it came to affordable housing and homeless issues, however.
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