Commentary: Planning is the first step for the inland port

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Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "Why should we have confidence in you? asks Terry Marasco of Greg Hughes. 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 also 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.

| June 18, 2018, 12:45 p.m.

Commentary: Planning is the first step for the inland port

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