Utah Highway Patrol officers carried one person out of an Inland Port Authority Board meeting Thursday and ejected several others as activists wearing masks jeered and blew whistles in an effort to disrupt the board’s work.
Still, Thursday’s meeting — the first time the full authority has come together in four months — was less chaotic than the last two, one of which was canceled after just minutes amid protests and the other culminating in the arrest of one activist.
During nearly two hours at the state Capitol, the body’s 11 members conducted little business that will significantly move forward development of the controversial international distribution hub planned for a massive portion of Salt Lake City’s northwest side.