Letter: Spending $7.5 million for Allen Park is absurd

To protect the privately owned Allen Park from development, Salt Lake City is slated to “save” it by purchasing it for $7.5 million and transforming it into a public “art park.” Spending $7.5 million of impact fees to prevent private development in an affluent neighborhood to appease eastside NIMBYs is absurd.Proponents of this purchase are likely much more concerned with preventing intensive development than “preserving” property that has not been publicly ac