Salt Lake City

Ever since an industrial campus began to rise in the Northpoint area, on the far northern edge of Salt Lake City, Denise Payne said her life has gradually changed. First it was semi trucks driving up 2200 West, the thin street that her home faces. Then, she said, developers started knocking on her door, with business proposals to turn her neighborhood — one of Salt Lake City’s last areas of agricultural life — into a more industrialized area. Last week, the Salt Lake City Council approved an update to the Northpoint Small Area plan, one its proponents say will allow a more harmonious change among the farmhouses that have stood there for generations. The plan maintains the agricultural zoning on the east side of 2200 West, but residents say they still worry about the future, and the possibility that that land could transition to M-1, or light industrial. The street, Payne said, “is turned into a construction zone. And now with a new...