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Don’t listen to the stupid people who want Salt Lake to be a real city.
Opinion
Please, Salt Lake City, don’t be stupid. Don’t let greedy developers breathe new life into parts of our city that have stood dormant and dying for years, decades even. When you take your grandchildren to visit those neighborhoods in the future, do you want them to find a gentrified “third space” packed with rambunctious youths or a living monument to our city’s history, preserved in amber from the arbitrary point in time that you consider to be its peak condition?
After all, cities aren’t meant to be lived in. They’re meant to be admired for brief periods of time by visitors.
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