Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune l-r Sen. Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, and House Speaker Greg Hughes held a news conference Tuesday, June 5, 2018, to detail a "compromise framework" for the new inland port authority. In March, lawmakers approved SB234 to create an international port on thousands of acres in the northwest portion of Salt Lake City. In addition to building the shipping port on about a quarter of city land, the bill made the port's board the final appeal panel for disputes over land use decisions, and it allows the port to take over all tax-and-spend power in that area.