Here's another cheery news tidbit, submitted by one of our attentive readers, that ought to gladden the hearts of local citizen activists. It appears officials in another Utah city recently have gotten at least one land-use decision right. Democracy is alive and well in South Jordan, Utah, evidently.In the face of strong citizen opposition, South Jordan municipal officials recently dropped a plan to sell a mere four acres of the city's 300 acres of public parkland. They dropped it like a hot potato, in fact.
A municipal government that responded to the will of its own citizens -- now there's a novelty.
Who knows? Perhaps we'll be reading a similar headline in the Standard-Examiner some time soon. There's a local lesson in this story, we think. While we at Weber County Forum don't have much confidence in the citizen responsiveness of our own mayoral administration, we do believe we can rely on our new city council to exercise a little common sense, and possibly demonstrate a more pronounced tendency toward democratic citizen input.
That's what we think. And what do our gentle readers think? Hmmm?
