Salt Lake County is currently developing a plan to guide development in the foothills and canyons of the Oquirrh Mountains for decades to come, and preservation of open space should be a priority, writes the executive director of The Oquirrh Foundation.
| April 16, 2022, 11:42 a.m.
And in 2017, the council kicked in funding to save land outside of the county, helping neighboring Summit County secure Bonanza Flat for preservation. These actions and others establish a long history of concern for open space by county leaders, but it seems that concern may have met its limit on the county’s west side.Salt Lake County is currently developing the West Bench General Plan to guide development in the foothills and canyons of the Oquirrh Mountains for decades to come.
Coon Canyon is private property owned by mining giant Rio Tinto and off limits to the public. While Rio Tinto has wreaked destruction elsewhere in the OquirrhsThis provides an incredible opportunity to one day provide much needed open space on the County’s west side.fails to see that opportunity and does not fit the County’s established pattern of acting to preserve our rapidly disappearing open space.
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