Micro-units proposed at Bueno Avenue got another green light from the Salt Lake City’s planning commission, but renters who spoke at a meeting Wednesday expressed frustration and desperation at the plan, calling the development 'substandard living.'
while pushing the area’s already exorbitant rents even higher.
“We’re the people who deliver your Amazon packages, make your coffee in the morning and your pizzas late at night,” said Wasatch Tenants United member Jin Lee. “These are the people who are going to be pushed into substandard living.”They and about 20 other residents urged the planning commission to block the project. The panel instead split 5-3 in approving requests for it to proceed as a planned urban development with a conditional land use permit for that part of Central City.
Colorado-based Four Square Holdings intends to construct a four-story building on the site with 65 units of what the city defines as shared housing: suites of between one and four bedrooms leased individually, each with a private bathroom along with shared kitchens and living rooms. Opponents, in contrast, called Bueno Avenue’s proposed living spaces and shared kitchens substandard, undignified and “sad.” Worse, they said, the concept threatens to set a new standard for diminished quality of life, while allowing developers to profit by drawing more rent per square foot with smaller spaces.
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