At a packed and occasionally emotional Salt Lake City Council meeting Tuesday, the panel considered changes to the way it regulates temporary housing for the terminally and seriously ill, including an amendment that would remove caps on the number of clients facilities like The INN Between — an embattled homeless hospice on the city’s east side — could serve.
More than 30 residents spoke during the more than hour-long public hearing, which became at times less about the ordinance and more about the affects The INN Between has or hasn’t had on the surrounding community.
While opponents of the amendments worry the changes would elevate the impacts of traffic and crime in the city’s neighborhoods, advocates argue the cap has always been “arbitrary” and that its removal would have no significant effect.