The Salt Lake City Council is scheduled to vote on a proposed ordinance that would change the process of approving a permanent homeless resource center in the city on April 18. via KSLcom
"Our city is at its lowest moral point in terms of its treatment of people who are most in the fight. If I left my dog outdoors to freeze to death, I would rightly be prosecuted, yet our elected city officials have left human beings outdoors this brutal winter to freeze to death and suffer untold tragedies demonstrating an uncivilized cruelty," Anderson said.
Ultimately, the recommendation to provide an exception for homeless resource centers with 40 beds or less was completely removed.The proposed process and its extended timeline have been a point of concern for homeless resource providers. Those concerns are what prompted the recommendation by the planning commission to expedite the council review of a homeless resource center overlay petition. The 90-day deadline was met with resistance by the council.
The proposal removes an administrative path to approval for homeless resource centers and instead puts the City council in the hot seat, and the council has seemingly begun to feel the heat given its hesitancy to submit to a deadline. Sean McMillan of the Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness furthered the planning commission's recommendation in a public hearing, encouraging that the entire process have a time limitation of six to nine months to mitigate the challenges of the applicant. The weight of the council's responsibility was also acknowledged by providers in the same hearing.
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