Save Great Salt Lake email from Center for Biological Diversity.org via Deeda Seed and Utah Clean Infrastructure Coalition
State leaders are pushing a plan to build a mega homeless shelter campus on wetlands in Northpoint, a remote community northeast of the airport. The cost of this proposal to taxpayers could be enormous and could come at the expense of existing services that prevent people from becoming homeless.
Please join us in signing a letter to our state leaders calling for a halt to this ill conceived proposal.
The proposed location is far from services and community connections homeless people need to obtain housing. And it’s also on, and adjacent to, Great Salt Lake wetlands, further imperiling them.
Northpoint, the community slated for the proposed mega-shelter is not an empty field — it is a long-established residential and agricultural community with approximately 60 homes and generations of families who live and work alongside farmland, livestock, and open space. This proposal would permanently damage the last agricultural district in Salt Lake City and unfairly burden one neighborhood with a statewide issue.
UT state leaders are pushing plan to build a mega homeless shelter campus on #GSL wetlands NE of SLC airport. Cost to taxpayers could be huge & at expense of existing services that help people from being homeless. #UTPol
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