Salt Lake City's affluent east side adds two new historic districts
Neighborhoods on Yalecrest’s Laird and Princeton avenues took a new approach on historic preservation to win over an initially skeptical Salt Lake City Council.
“Neighborhoods like ours have become less affordable and more exclusive over the last 10 years,” Laird Avenue resident and district backer Becky Woods said, adding that home prices there were “unattainably high for most families.” Paula Harline, a proponent of the Princeton district, said the process energized her and others to back similar applications for neighborhoods across the city. Harline said she is now advocating for that as a board member of the
Large swaths of the city’s east and west sides are designated as national historic districts, a largely honorary marker given by the National Park Service. A map of Salt Lake City's newly created Princeton Heights and Laird Heights local historic districts.
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