From Deseret News archives:
Murray development is thorn in mayoral race
Wilde doesn't necessarily approve of Murray's commercial development in the last decade under Mayor Dan Snarr's leadership, and he thinks Snarr has neglected the city's neighborhoods in favor of establishing a strong retail base.
Snarr takes umbrage with the accusation that he doesn't care about neighborhoods after all, he points out, he is the one with a weed-spraying backpack roaming city streets during summer and insists commercial development is necessary to provide the money for maintaining those neighborhoods.
Snarr is running for his third term as mayor, and Wilde is partway through his second term as a Salt Lake County councilman. Both have lived in Murray for decades and both purport a deep love for this mid-valley suburb of 43,000.
Wilde, who started thinking about running after a friend approached him at Costco in January, wants to focus more on neighborhoods a point he has hammered from the beginning of the campaign season. Murray has focused too much on commercial development and "not tuned into taking care of neighborhoods," he said.
Wilde's assertion about commercial development does not seem to be supported by the raw numbers. Murray retailers sold approximately $1.41 billion dollars worth of goods in 1997, according to an economic census by the U.S. government; in 2002, that number dropped slightly to $1.37 billion. The 2002 numbers, however, do not include sales from stores that have opened since then Costco, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Thomasville Furniture and several restaurants.
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