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Salt Lake City planned to remove a mural from a west-side garden. Here’s why it changed course.

In a March letter, the city had told the Og-woi collective that they had to remove all garden infrastructure.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Og-woi People's Orchard and Garden, built in May 2020, is located along the Jordan River in the Fairpark neighborhood, April 14, 2023. The garden's mural, center, memorializes Margarita Satini, a community organizer who died from COVID-19 in 2020. The city had told the Og-woi group that they'd have to take the mural down.