City Planning Suggests Land Near Airport a Natural Fit for Other Uses

   The land near the airport is on the list of suggested sites for the prison relocation, as you may know. I do wonder about that. No, I am not so worried about what those flying in will think, to find the prison at our gateway. On that, I wonder if perhaps it will not bother them.
   But, use of the land? The reason for giving up the Draper property is that a higher use of the land is foreseen. Why would we, then, not be concerned about the proper use of land near the airport? It, too, is a valuable resource. Some companies value being near an airport, as they fly their people in and out quite often. Once that land is taken to build a prison, it will no longer be available to lure those businesses to Utah.
   Convention space? True, we already have situated a lot of our convention space downtown, but not all of it. Placing a convention center in the vicinity of the airport would, surely, be attractive to those considering where they hold their conventions. If we do think we might should add to our convention space anytime in the next 50 years, let's leave that land available.
   The proper use of land in a city, as we  all know, is called city planning. I suggest, if we are planning our city, we should see that the land near the airport has uses that fit in with it quite naturally. We should perhaps leave the land open for those uses.