Comments about ‘County, Sandy heat up annexation fight’

what are you angry about? This is why the city and county have expensive attorneys; to figure out the fine print and the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. Calm down. Neither the county or the city are going anywhere. You'll be able to get your friends in Granite into your city. Just be patient. No legislative action has ever been taken to prevent Sandy pursuing anything it wants to do, so last session's legislation protecting Townships won't either.

Sandy isn't pursing the annexation. Granite residents are. I live up here. In our case, annexing into Sandy makes the most sense for us.

Granite needs Sandy more than Sandy needs Granite.

Granite has almost NO tax base. It's exclusively residential. If the people there want to go it alone that's their perogative, but don't then come looking for city services from the surrounding communities.

It's a pain to administer city services when the city has a bunch of islands of people who want to exclude themselvs, but it can be done.

Why do the Salt Lake County Mayor and Salt Lake County Council continue to allow the tail to wag the dog? Mike Hansen states he wants to be able to lock in all of the residents in Granite (2,000 people in a valley of 1.0 million)in the name of self determination. Now about 20 homeowners want to exert their self determination, and not be part of a township, and the County jumps on these people! These people represent probably represent less than 1% of the Granite Community. Once again, Mayor Corroon cannot be decisive and wants all parties to hold hands until the election is over. The politics of that position is 2000 voters to about 20....so the good Mayor wants to dump the 20. Mike Hansen has total access to the elected officials in Salt Lake County and this is "good old boy politics" at its best.

How convenient that Paulina Flint and Mike Hansen who might as well be paid employees for Salt Lake County have used their insider influence to push the Granite Township on a small number of people who don't want to be in the township. How similar Salt Lake County Democrats are to the Democrats in Wahsington DC as they push a government health care system on us. Of course the Mayor and his Demo friends on the County Council know what is best for these people...

Townships were an ill-conceived idea from the mid 90's, a bill drafted primarily to stop West Jordan and West Valley from cherry-picking commercial development within Kerns. The problem here is really Salt Lake County, who decided long ago to act like a city. Well, either SL County needs to convince all the cities to dis-incorporate and form one large Valley-City, or just give up the ghost to be the largest city in the Salt Lake Valley. No other county in the state, with exception to Summit County, acts this way. Go to Utah County, where if you want to develop land, you'd better be close to a City, or forget it. In SL County, they gave every land owner any and all entitlements they wanted, causing massive leap-frog development, literal urban-sprawl, and marginalized hinterland development. And for what good? Now in this case, Sandy is left to clean up a mess perpetuated by these careless policies (can someone say "White City"?).

Isn't a [a bit] ironic that Mr Hansen wants self-determination from "big bad Sandy" (50 times Granite's size) but waffles on giving it to a group that clearly doesn't want his version of "big bad Granite" (100 times their size).

btw Mr Hansen...those people aren't the only ones in Granite that would prefer a city to your township.

The question as far as Township for Granite goes is "What is the endgame you are trying to achieve?" If you are trying to grow up to be something else(a city in your own right), this is the way to do it. If you are trying to go down the path of trying to salvage some sort of status quo -you're wasting your time. All it will take is one of the big Townships incorporating, and your days as a townnship are through.
Think before you leap people.

This is just silly politics at it's best.

I can see the "township" concept working when there is some geographical distance between the 2. But when they are basically the same, same people, same houses, same services needed, etc, I don't see the advantage of differentiating one from the other with basically just a line drawn on the road to seperate them.

It reminds me of 2 sisters who are sharing a room and they want to draw a line down the middle and say, "Don't come on my side of the room". If they were in seperate rooms that would be different, but their in the same room. Does drawing the line REALLY make any difference?