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Originally Posted by Always Sunny in SLC
This is why it needs to be forced at the state level. There is way too much bureaucracy created by so many cities and all their own councils and laws. It makes in general long term planning in difficult and makes integrated transportation planning in particular difficult.
Progress on zoning reform is a bureaucratic mess.
Having volunteer community councils that advise and maybe even have some limited regulatory powers seems good, but Davis County, Utah County and parts of Salt Lake have demonstrated going too far on city creation slows progress dramatically and leads to a lot of intra county fighting and politicking.
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It easily spins out of control the other way, where the San Fernando Valley (1.8M people) gets totally ignored by the Los Angeles City Council, because there's a hill in the way. No rail transit. Social issues ignored.
Zoning power is granted to the STATE by the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution. It's the state's fault that they chose to delegate that to hundreds of city councils, *not* the fault that there are a variety of smaller local cities.
The state can reclaim that power by legislation if they wish. But they won't, because rich towns like Cottonwood Heights, Draper, and Alpine want to retain their economic-exclusion zoning power. And if we are going to complain about small working-class places like Magna being responsible for making zoning reform impossible, I counter that maybe we should target rich cities instead.
Nobody is being economically excluded out of Magna because of intentional zoning rules.
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There was no new information on the project at this meeting, so BSL calling it a "reveal" is disingenuous. Here's 
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