“While I don’t minimize the impacts that shelters can have,” said Glendale Neighborhood Council chair Turner Bitton, “we have a moral responsibility to be supportive of sheltering folks that are unsheltered.”
The Gail Miller Resource Center in Salt Lake City. The city has approved new rules allowing such centers to be located in more parts of Utah's capital., anyone who wants to open a homeless shelter will need to apply for a special zoning amendment and get council approval, even if it invites the possibility of politicizing a potential placement.and had to obtain the planning commission’s nod for a conditional use permit — a process that sidestepped council consideration.
The new regulations, which do not affect existing shelters, require the council to hold a public hearing within 90 days of the city receiving a proposal for a new facility. Council members then would consider voting within a “reasonable” time after that. Temporary shelters would be placed only in zoning districts that allow hotels, motels or multifamily housing, or in government-owned buildings. Unsheltered people move their belongings in Salt Lake City in March. The city has approved new rules allowing shelters to be located in more parts of Utah's capital.
“I’m still disappointed about that,” he said. “... We need to be electing people who will care about those issues and will see through what is just a way to keep themselves in power, and really make decisions that are equitable for the whole city.”, lauded the end of the moratorium and said expanding the placement of shelters is a win for the city, even if some have concerns about politics seeping into conversations about where to put them.
“Homeless centers seem to attract people who use drugs and people who sell drugs,” she said. “That’s just one example. If there’s no way to keep those people away from the homeless center, then they gather there.”Yalecrest Community Council Chair Jan Hemming said her neighborhood has been supportive of opening up other parts of the city to hosting homeless shelters since the city began discussing changing how it deals with the centers.
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