From Deseret News archives:
Skybridge support high
58% in Salt Lake poll favor walkway over Main Street
The survey gathered the responses of 400 people living throughout the city and has a margin of error of 5 percent.
The numbers show clear support for the controversial bridge, which Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and urban-planning advocates warn could hurt downtown. But the city-wide survey results aren't as emphatic when compared to an earlier poll that asked Utahns statewide about the idea.
In that poll, conducted May 21-24, 77 percent of respondents said they supported the bridge and 56 percent said that support was "definite." At only a slightly lower rate 73 percent Salt Lake County residents also supported the bridge.
But officials with Taubman Centers Inc., the church's retail partner in the project, say the center depends on having two levels of shopping a viable setup only if a walkway exists to connect to the second levels across the street.
The new poll shows Salt Lakers as more evenly split on the idea than people in the rest of the state. Although shoppers from outside the city are likely to visit the center when it opens in 2011, it is Salt Lake residents whose representatives in the City Council have ultimate control over the project's design and plans.
The council has already approved an amendment to the city's master plan to accommodate the skybridge. The master plan used to prevent skybridges over streets like Main but now allows for bridges to be considered if they meet certain conditions.
The council has yet to consider specific plans for the bridge, which Taubman officials are still working on.
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