A moratorium halting new homeless shelters from being built in Salt Lake City may be lifted next week.
“I think it's important to know that the moratorium was always intended to be temporary,” said Salt Lake City Councilman Darin Mano.“We're not approving any specific shelters right now or any specific locations,” he said, “But it's changing the overall law and the process under which new shelters can be placed in the city.”
“The way that we've done it before only allowed for homeless resource centers to be in three zones in the city,” said Mendenhall, “They were very constricted to a limited area.”“It was a moment for us to regroup,” said Mendenhall, “And decide how can we put more reality into the context of these applications. For example, are they close to a transit center? Are there food locations nearby?”
“Some of the things that the city council can do that the planning commission cannot do is look at things like: What does the street lighting look like? What is the sidewalk infrastructure? What are some of those ancillary things outside of the boundaries of the actual project itself?” “I do think it's heinous that Mendenhall put a moratorium on new shelter beds available and because people died, dozens died this winter, unnecessarily because of bureaucracy and quagmire,” said Kseniya Kniaveva, the executive director of the Nomad Alliance.“There should be a small resource center in every neighborhood,” said Kniaveva.
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