I do support it. The council unanimously supported putting it on the ballot. It's actually five buildings that will be built. We have obsolete buildings, especially in our emergency operations. We need to replace the police station downtown. We need an east-side precinct and fire facilities on the west side.

• Plans for the LDS Church's City Creek Center development call for a skybridge across Main Street to connect shopping areas on the second level of the outdoor mall. The City Council amended the city's master plan to allow for such projects to be considered. What is your opinion of skybridges in general and specifically for the City Creek project? If elected, will you support the skybridge being built?

We don't really have a policy for skybridges. We haven't had this issue come before us except for on this project. The rest of the skybridges, at Gateway, are on private property. In this case, I think it ties the two together better. I think because the view corridor has been changed with the light rail going down the middle of the street. When you talk about putting up to 900 housing units on those two blocks, it makes a lot of sense for the people who live there to get from one side of the street to the other. The only caveat is it has to be planned in with the rest of the project. It has to be open, not a fortress mall. We gave a whole list of things for the Planning Commission to consider before we'd consider it. I will support the skybridge if it meets our requirements.

• The City Creek Center development is seen as a significant step toward the revitalization of downtown Salt Lake City. What other steps need to be taken to achieve that goal, and how do you propose to do that?

One thing we're working on right now is light rail to the airport. We're spending an awful lot of time on making sure we get better public transportation. The other thing is we can't neglect the blocks around the City Creek Center. To the south, we need to look at those blocks and see how we can open them up and help them tie in more. I think we've done a good job on part of Main Street. We've got new buildings going in, and I think we just need to tie that corridor together, all the way down to the Grand America and the hotels down there so it's kind of a free-flowing area. We've got a new entertainment district we're working on. That will be a big plus and bring people downtown. We have to continue to put more housing down there and create a 24-hour urban environment.