Walkara Way remains in limbo as the property owner tries to get to the bottom of his city’s involvement in an artificial island-building plan.
Walkara Way remains in limbo as property owner tries to get to the bottom of his city’s involvement in the proposal to create artificial islands.
The perceived conflicts and backroom deals have members of at least one family so fed up that they’re pulling out of a project that would have created a public trail and open space park connecting the Provo River and Jordan River parkways. Holdaway is also running for City Council this November, largely because he’s upset over how Vineyard became so entwined in the LRS controversy. LRS“There needs to be a public flogging, a public ‘what happened?’” Holdaway told The Tribune. “You just can’t go bankrupt and say, ‘Oh, no harm, no foul.’
In summer 2020, Ellis also arranged a meeting between Holdaway and LRS since one of the dredging company’s assertions was that its islands project would improve Utah Lake wetlands. LRS representatives seemed misinformed on the complexity of a lakeshore that’s owned by a hundred-plus private property holders, Holdaway said, so he didn’t take much from the discussion.He moved forward in his partnership with Ellis and the Utah Lake Commission, however, working to get other landowners on board.
The presentation also included a concept map of the islands and subdivisions LRS would create after dredging a billion cubic yards of Utah Lake sediment Jeff Hartley, a lobbyist for LRS, sent an email on Sept. 30, 2020. In the message, Hartley said LRS gave the EPA a tour of Utah Lake, that the agency wanted LRS to expedite its application for a federal loan and that the company needed a letter of support in 72 hours. Emails show the governor’s staff finalized the support letter by the morning of Oct. 2.
Hartley asked Benson whether his communications between the mayor and LRS are protected in the message.In an interview, Hartley denied there was any conflict of interest in his representation of LRS and Vineyard. He said he had not negotiated his ownership share with LRS when he began his lobbying contract with the city in 2018.
Vineyard City Council member Cristy Welsh, who was on the council when Fullmer sent her support letter in 2020, would not say whether she knew about the letter at the time. But she said she “absolutely” did not have a problem with it and supported the mayor.“Misconstruing that letter to the point where we’re still talking about it years later,” Welsh added, “is a waste of everyone’s time.
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