Results of Survey of Unincorporated Residents to be Released Tonight

Aug 04, 2008 by Eric Ray

(KCPW News) The results of a resident survey in the unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County will be released tonight. The survey was taken to determine if residents of those areas would like to remain living in unincorporated territory, incorporate into a municipality, or annex into a neighboring city.

"We feel the process was fair, it took fairly extensive time to go through this. We had nine neighboring cities involved as well as the unincorporated county and the township leaders, so we feel comfortable that it was a fair process," says Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon.

Corroon says community participation in the survey was high, coming in at 24%. The survey came as a result of legislation passed in 2005 that requires residents of unincorporated townships to decide the future of their neighborhoods by 2010. Corroon says those residents have some tough decisions to make when it comes to their pocketbooks.

"The real question that the citizens needed to ask themselves is ‘are you happy with the services you have and do you feel you are paying a fair price for them?' Unincorporated Salt Lake County residents are probably in the middle of the pack between property taxes and franchise taxes on their utilities," says Corroon. "Among the 16 cities within Salt Lake County they're probably right about in the middle."

A public presentation of the survey results will be given from 5:30 to 8 pm tonight at the Salt Lake County Government Center.

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