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1. Trek ending in Mecca 5. Tennis shirts, often 10. Xerox machine problems 14. Butterlike spread 15. Separately 16. “____ stage left” 17. Like some parties and flowers 18. Luxury Italian car, informally 19. Turn down 20. St. John, when there are six religiously like-minded people before him? 23. Like a small garage 24. CBS forensics franchise 25. “The only laundry detergents available to you from me are Tide, Bold and Cheer”? 32. Put the kibosh on 35. Not home 36. Middle parts of bodies 37. Alphabetize, e.g. 39. Giants great Manning 41. Volcano that towers over Catania, Italy 42. What Wi-Fi can connect you to 45. Reason to go green? 48. FBI or DEA figure 49. Going for walks and playing fetch from 12:00-5:00? 52. Dominate, in slang 53. Spy who led the Combahee River Raid in the U.S. Civil War 57. “Is it evening already?!?” ... or a hint to this puzzle’s theme 62. Dandelion, e.g. 63. Celebrations with hula dancing 64. Alphabet quartet 65. Suffix with hard or soft 66. Mobile payment service 67. Rooster on a roof, perhaps 68. Spinach is rich in it 69. German steel city 70. ____ Ed.

1. “In what way?” 2. 1979 horror film with a hatching egg on the poster 3. Dig (into) 4. Group with five #1 R&B hits in the 1990s 5. Actress Gwyneth 6. Fish whose name is a celebrity’s name minus an R 7. It’s woolly but far from mammoth 8. Jerry of “Law & Order” 9. Visits 10. Yoda, for one 11. Guitars, informally 12. Common toothpaste flavor 13. Place to wallow 21. Zilch 22. DVR pioneer 26. When repeated, a dance move 27. Hip-hop’s ____, the Creator 28. Before, poetically 29. “The Thin Man” pooch 30. “____ story short ...” 31. Exam with a max score of 180 32. Founded: Abbr. 33. NYC neighborhood above Houston Street 34. Last little bit 38. Pan Am rival, once 40. Guest book locale 43. Get an ____ effort 44. Vitamin in meat, milk and eggs 46. Decides, in a way 47. “I thought ____ never ask!” 50. Provides (with) 51. Winner of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy 54. Chatty bird 55. Ecstasy’s opposite 56. Slangy refusals 57. Sport 58. Often-shared sandwich 59. First place? 60. Lays out by the pool 61. Scottish philosopher David 62. Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr.

Last week’s answers

SUDOKU X

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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Scary Changes

To many, change is scary. And big changes are coming to Salt Lake neighborhoods since the city council voted to loosen zoning laws and ease ordinances.

After years of debate, grumblings and public input, citizens will find that boarding houses are a thing again, the west side Tiny Home Village has been approved, builders will not be required to carve out as much parking for their projects as in the past and the Ballpark area will be getting zoning changes.

Ballpark has been a mess of development without long-range planning, which has caused a pattern of more cars than foot traffic, big box stores (Walmart, Lowe’s) and large apartment buildings taking up land. But the recent changes will create a “Ballpark Station Area Transit Station Area zone,” which the city is calling the “Heart of the Neighborhood.”

It will reportedly reconfigure the Ballpark Trax station to improve access from the west and make it easier to navigate for pedestrians on 1300 South, with new and improved crossings and added green space around Smith’s Ballpark stadium. Mind you, no one is sure the Salt Lake Bees will still be there in a few years, but for now, it’s a landmark to build around and improve the neighborhood experience.

There are 45 pages of parking ordinances created in 2019 that are being updated to include new minimums and maximums for the parking spaces required of new construction, electric vehicle parking, more accessible parking (the capital city is not known for an abundance of handicapped/accessible parking), bike parking, off-street loading areas and drive-thrus.

Shared housing was big in the 1800s and 1900s as an affordable housing alternative, and boarding houses will now be allowed in all Transit Station Areas [TSA], in downtown, in the Sugarhouse Central Business District and in several other zones, with a minimum bedroom size of 100-square-feet per person, 24-hour on-site management and security cameras, except in bathrooms.

Another item that spooks homeowners— changes to RMF-30 zoning, which is traditionally a lower-density, multi-family residential district. This would eliminate the minimum width of a lot (currently the rule is 80-feet wide) for multi-family dwellings. This potentially allows for more accessory dwelling units [ADUs] and tiny homes to be added to current properties that formerly didn’t have a wide enough lot to put in an addition.

RMF zoning exists mainly on the city’s east side, and this change would allow for more density—something NIMBYs are opposed to as a change in their ’hood. The downside is that a home could be torn down and replaced with multi-units, meaning potentially more traffic and parking problems. A huge part of the discussion for changes to this zoning is a “housing loss mitigation”—people don’t want homes torn down and replaced with multiunits. This adds to loss of place and gentrification as we see neighborhoods decimated by aggressive developers throughout the city.

Time to take off your masks and rip off the bloody bandages, Salt Lake. Life here and around the state is changing fast, and if you don’t pay attention, you’ll end up falling into an open grave! n

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