SALT LAKE CITY — A coalition of faith leaders, environmental advocates and homeowners is urging state leaders to halt plans for a proposed homeless shelter in Salt Lake City’s Northpoint neighborhood.
The 1,300-bed campus would sit on nearly 16 acres of Great Salt Lake wetlands near the Jordan River — an area critics say is environmentally sensitive and already under pressure from industrial development.
“This plan does not feel compassionate, and it doesn’t feel like a plan,” said Allison Musser, a Northpoint resident…