- Salt Lake City Planning Commission raised concerns about Intermountain Health’s proposed LDS Hospital relocation during meeting.
- Intermountain Health aims to address safety, proposing secure entrances.
- Commissioners worry the plan lacks active ground-floor spaces, impacting downtown activation, among other concerns.
SALT LAKE CITY — Intermountain Health officials and members of the Salt Lake City Planning Commission appeared to be at odds about some elements of a planned “urban hospital” near downtown Salt Lake City, as the concept inches closer to reality.
Different interpretations of a development agreement between Intermountain Health and Salt Lake City over the plan led to some of the tenser moments, as project planners presented their vision.
“I think we’re going to keep running into and have this back-and-forth … because we’re trying to design a hospital that interacts with the community instead of a community asset that happens to be a hospital,” said Planning Commissioner Richard Leverett toward the end of the two-hour discussion…