"The decision we're making tonight is not really about the bridge," Simonsen said. "It's about whether or not they responded to all the criteria."

While the City Council approved Tuesday night construction of the skybridge, it added a pagelong list of new criteria that the LDS Church must meet for the rest of the project, which will be finished in phases and culminated in 2012.

The City Council wants the LDS Church to use similar urban design and architectural elements on Block 74 — where a Harmon's grocery store is being built — that it

has planned for the other blocks of the development. Alan Sullivan, an attorney for LDS Church-owned City Creek Reserve Inc., said that Block 74 was always part of the development and will look like the rest of it.

But the church doesn't own all the buildings on the block.

"There are limits as far as what CCRI can do," Sullivan said. The City Council expects city employees, the church and the Utah Department of Transportation to build a midblock crosswalk on State Street connecting City Creek Center to Social Hall Avenue. The church and Salt Lake County must work to create pedestrian vitality on West Temple between South Temple and 100 South to draw visitors at the Salt Palace Convention Center to downtown.

The church must work with the Salt Lake City Historic Landmarks Commission on the cast-iron facade that fronted the former ZCMI store. That facade may become the next skybridge-like fight, as members of the City Council have questions about how the facade will front a Macy's store on Main Street, 25 feet north of where the ZCMI's front doors were located. The current plan requires pedestrians to walk down five or six steps to enter the store.

"I struggle with that," Simonsen said.

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