Brandon Dayton: Zoning codes must change to allow better urban design

I was eager to read David Ross Scheer’s recent article questioning the aesthetics of the unrelenting boom of podium construction across Salt Lake City. Too often we take for granted that we need more housing, and Scheer’s question rightly asks us to consider how we grow and what the implications will be for the future.There is much that Scheer gets right when looking at podium construction. He understands the incentives, he understands the difficulty in getting podium construction to