Carter Williams is a reporter for KSL. He covers Salt Lake City, statewide transportation issues, outdoors, the environment and weather. He is a graduate of Southern Utah University.
SALT LAKE CITY — An 0.83-acre parcel of land along the southeast corner of 1300 East and 2100 South is an "anomaly" left over from before the formation of Sugar House Park, when the land was home to a state prison, Richard Layman points out.
It's remained commercial space abutting the park for decades, and there hasn't been much agreement over what to do with it next, especially since a Sizzler restaurant once located there closed in 2020. That remains the case six years later, as a developer seeks to rezone the land to make way for a seven-story hotel.Layman, vice chair of the Sugar House Park Authority board of trustees, says the board doesn't have a consensus opinion on the proposal, but he was one of the many people who attended a Salt Lake City Council public hearing on Tuesday to urge the city to reject the rezoning request."This is the most important decision concerning the park since the park was created in 1955," he said, amid an onslaught of residents also pleading with the city to deny the proposal.Salt Lake City is considering a proposed rezoning of 2111 S. 1300 East from mixed-use 3 to form-based mixed-use 8 , which would open the door for a new 145-room hotel with various other amenities. The change would allow for a building of up to 90 feet on the parcel. A zoning map of Salt Lake City's Sugar House neighborhood near 2100 South and 1300 East. The proposed rezone at 2111 S. 1300 East would allow for a build of up to 90 feet in height next to Sugar House Park. About two-thirds of the 38 people who spoke on the measure during Tuesday's public meeting opposed it, saying it would add traffic to one of the city's busiest corridors, damage the park's iconic viewshed and potentially scar the popular regional park altogether, among other concerns.Some worried that customers would avoid the business' paid parking structure by parking on the Sugar House Park loop, potentially exacerbating existing parking issues whenever there's an event or weather that draws people to the park.Others said it would open Pandora's box in that there's no going back once there's a major upzone next to the park. Many urged the city to keep the current zoning, which caps heights to about half of what's possible under MU-8."We don't build big things next to small houses. We step down in size, and the same thing has to be true of the business district as it reaches the park," said Heidi
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