Salt Lake Sky Bridge Becomes Political Hot Button

"With candidates for Salt Lake City mayor rushing to make their views known on the proposed Main Street sky bridge, the city's planning commission is asking whether or not politicians are the best people to decide.

Until the Salt Lake City Council amended city planning documents this year to open up the possibility of a sky bridge connecting halves of the LDS Church's proposed City Creek Center mall, such decisions would have been up to the Salt Lake City Planning Commission.

But in rewriting an earlier ban on Main Street sky bridges, the city council made itself-to use George W. Bush's term-the decider."