The plan to build a state liquor store on the north side of 2100 South between 800 East and Windsor Avenue is ill-conceived. I am grateful that the Department of Alcohol Beverage Services has paused this project while it works with the city and the neighbors and weighs its options. I urge DABS to make that pause permanent.
The Sugar House master plan calls for protecting neighborhood homes from traffic, parking, noise and pollution of commercial uses. Sending thousands of extra vehicles down 800 East does the exact opposite. Traffic would also spill onto Downington, Garfield, Westminster and Ramona Avenues. These are quiet, residential streets where kids ride bikes and neighbors walk their dogs. My husband and I are adamantly opposed.
A liquor store of this size belongs on a site that customers and delivery trucks can reach directly from a main road, without using neighborhood streets as a shortcut.
This site cannot offer that and so I ask the state to find one that can. It would be convenient to walk a few yards from my door for a bottle of wine, but it simply isn’t worth what it would cost.
Ronni McDonough, Salt Lake City