Ralph had very little executive experience before becoming Mayor. Since being elected he seems to travel more than Rocky Anderson did so he has not really had a chance to learn how to be Mayor by doing the job.

One eighth of his term is over. His first budget is not very inspiring and so the first year is probably already a wash. Perhaps his legacy will be helping Salt Lake City residents to come to grips with the fact that they live in a small town in a small state. That's not the legacy his supporters wanted but it may be the legacy we deserve.

Becker's out of town, gee what a surprise, just another Rocky. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Same old song second verse.
Salt Lake got what they deserved with Rocky and, Corrodini, Becker is an instant replay.
You SLC folks are sure lucky.

Salt Lake City has not been perfect, but the real problem has been how confusing things have been for dealing with the 4th floor. (Something only required if a project is not a "permitted use".)

The only over-the-counter permits issued, I have seen over the last 10 years, have been simple, permitted uses. If a project would require a change in zoning or a conditional use approval, we aren't talking over the counter, we are talking 6 to 9 months, typically.

The approval of simple "permitted" projects, if not over the counter, has gone from a couple of weeks to 2 to 3 months during the new Mayor's time.

During the transition, the 4th floor has been very hard to move through. Several positions have been dropped. I am hoping it will be better in the future.

The City opened up all permitted, and conditional use decisions to anyone, during a recent study. I have never seen any city that open.

This is more likely a local community council that doesn't feel like they have enough power. If a project is "permitted", the community council, the planning commission, and the city council should be out of the loop anyway.

Those hippies on the Avenues Community Council will never be happy. Everett is absolutely right: you don't fix a decade of dysfunction in 6 months. Give Becker another year.

Until then, the socialist hippies of the Avenues Community Council should shut their yappers and go back to reading the Sunday New York Times, sipping coffee, and cursing the day GW Bush was born.

Since when do hippies and socialists want to get a building permit from the city?

If six months isn't enough time to fix problems with one small branch of city government then how long is long enough? Four and a half years when we have a new mayor?

The audit states that the stakeholders have had a role in creating the dysfunction, maybe they should have a vot of no confidence in themselves.

Incredible. The Avenues Community Council thinks it's too easy to get stuff done in SLC? I would laugh if it weren't so tragic.

I agree, you don't fix 15 years of dysfunction in 6 months. Becker seems to be taking a more substantive and less superficial approach, which always takes longer but in the end, is more meaningful.