Misinformation is circulating this election season, and four former mayors have added to it with their endorsement of Ryan Dickey. Two are only part-time residents and two no longer live in 84060. Their perspective does not reflect the daily experience of those who live here year-round.
The endorsements describe Dickey as a friend of open space, small business, and neighborhoods, but his record shows otherwise. He consistently supports large-scale development, bad deals and rezoning, often in conflict with clear community consensus.
Dickey voted to rezone open space for the Mine Bench project that other City Council members wisely opposed. In his role as liaison to Main Street planning, a process led by Zions Bank, he expressed enthusiasm for a 650-room hotel on Swede Alley that the comm