I have lived in Salt Lake City for a long time and I am stunned by the increasingly ugly housing developments that are filling our city. Those at 400 South and 700 East stand out.
I realize that contractors are most interested in money, but why is the city allowing them to design such cheap, cut-rate housing, essentially instant slums? I don’t know if the contractors, architects and city planners all have the same lack of aesthetic, but the whole city is looking like the wrong side of the Cold War. Are they borrowing designs from old Stasi blueprints in East Berlin?
We are about to have a new mayor and I hope some fresh ideas and actual standards in our building department.
We have a beautiful city. Let’s build on some old ideas and stop this invasion of beige paint, rust dripping slabs of steel and unfinished concrete.
Anne Albaugh, Salt Lake City
