Sky Bridge Debacle

To me this is not a hard choice.

No sky bridge.

This will impede the view from Main Street. The view is something that city forefathers had enough common sense to preserve and to put the preservation of it into the city code by not allowing sky bridges. If we allow this one it will be that much easier for the next developer to build one. We are going to allow “the church” a variance to build a sky bridge but not the next guy? How is that going to look in front of a judge?

Sky bridges are fun and neat but not necessary for the city creek center to go forward and to function. If it is going to draw the crowds the developer says it’s going to bring into Salt Lake, something like 10million then the “mall” will succeed without the bridge. The developer is trying to tell us that 10 million people are going to decide not to shop at the center because there is no sky bridge?

Plus all the other reasons not to build a sky bridge.

On a side note, how well will that retractable glass ceiling do during an earthquake?