Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson has declared in public meetings that the proposed high-density Olympic Hills development will be approved and that is sparking worries for some residents in the county’s southwestern communities.
Plans for the 931-acre residential and commercial project west of Herriman — which were vetoed last summer by then-County Mayor Ben McAdams — are reportedly still weeks if not months away from a new formal review by the County Council and a series of public hearings.
But at a routine meeting of the county’s Parks & Recreation Advisory Board on July 11, Wilson was asked about a lack of recreation centers in southwest cities such as Herriman and Riverton, where, a Jordan School Board official said, residents are “not real big fans of the county right now.