Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 2000
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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| 1990 | 2137 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 4700 | 4557 | 11 | 11 | 157 | |||
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Method of Exclusion
- Zoning
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Unknown
Comments
From “Litigation and Grassroots Advocacy to Promote Affordable Housing,” National Low Income Housing Coalition: The NIMBY Report, 11/2000; www.nlihc.org/nimby/:
Salt Lake City, Utah: Litigation and Grassroots Advocacy to Promote Affordable Housing
With the support of a coalition of civil rights groups, an affordable housing developer has sued Bluffdale, an all white suburb of 4,500 people south of Salt Lake City, Utah, for what they contend is a discriminatory zoning scheme that will continue to exclude racial and ethnic minorities and people with disabilities. “Bluffdale has no racial or cultural diversity,” says Mike Hutchings, an attorney representing the developer. %u201CSingle mothers, the disabled and many senior citizens cannot afford to live there.” Initially filed in March 1999, the lawsuit has twice forced the city to revise its zoning ordinance and state mandated affordable housing plan, and has paved the way for new units.
The court refused to approve a city plan that did not specify any areas for multi family housing and ordered that the lawsuit go forward. Now, in its third attempt to comply with state law, the city council is proposing density of up to 15 units per acre (current law requires one acre minimum for each unit) for new developments with a set aside of affordable housing. In a non binding resolution, the city has designated over 2000 acres upon which multi family units can be located by right. The proposal will be the subject of a Third District Court hearing on November 3 to determine whether it complies with the state affordable housing law.
The NAACP and the Disability Rights Action Committee have worked with Anderson Development to rally public support of a more responsive local plan, and have also filed a lawsuit claiming that Bluffdale practices racial discrimination in its housing policies. While local advocates are encouraged by progress made to date, they seek a court order that would require the city to comply with the terms of its non binding resolution.%u201D