It wasn’t the Utah Legislature's first attempt at using a sneaky power grab to run roughshod over local communities, Robert Gehrke writes. And it won’t be their last. Fortunately, their sloppiness has stalled Dakota Pacific's plans for Kimball Junction.
that was specifically tailored to give Dakota Pacific what they wanted — permission to develop a housing project adjacent to a transit hub that had submitted a land-use application.
“Dakota Pacific’s ham-fisted tactic to subvert the Summit County community and Summit County’s legislative process and instead lobby the Utah Legislature to impair a 15-year-old, carefully negotiated contract and override local land use authority and our community’s right to local self-government has failed,”In its lawsuit, the county had also argued that the Legislature’s attempt to undo the county’s tech center deal was an unconstitutional interference with its contract, but by finding in the...
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