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Salt Lake City CRA backs $50,000 straw poll to activate Mead Avenue underpass
Summary
The Salt Lake City Community Reinvestment Agency board gave unanimous straw-poll support to release $50,000 from State Street strategic intervention funds to help convert the Ninth South/Mead Avenue underpass into activated public space, contingent on executed agreements with UDOT and the city and documentation of improvements.
The Salt Lake City Community Reinvestment Agency (CRA) board gave unanimous support by straw poll to release $50,000 from the State Street strategic intervention fund to help convert the Ninth South/Mead Avenue underpass into activated public space, contingent on executed use agreements with the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and Salt Lake City.
The project, initiated by the Central Ninth community, proposes transforming the space beneath the Ninth South off-ramp into programmed public use, including a futsal (street-soccer) court proposed by RISE Athletics Foundation. Councilmember Mano told the board the site is UDOT-owned but that UDOT has been “a willing partner.”
Why it matters: The underpass bisects the Central Ninth neighborhood and the Ballpark area and has been a site of encampments and loitering, residents and council members said. Supporters…
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