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Proposed Affordable Housing Overlay Detrimental to Yalecrest
By Lynn K. Pershing, Ph.D., President of K.E.E.P. Yalecrest I understand the need for affordable housing. I do NOT believe the current...
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- Feb 21
- 2 min
Lights! Camera! Action!
By Lynn K. Pershing, President You’ve seen the icons associated with film-making before, the clapperboard, film reels, director chairs,...
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- Jan 27
- 1 min
K.E.E.P. Yalecrest celebrates Carl Leith receiving the Lucybeth Rampton Lifetime Achievement Award
Carl Leith, former senior planner in Salt Lake’s Planning Department, received the Lucybeth Rampton Lifetime Achievement Award from...
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- Jan 27
- 1 min
The Salt Lake Tribune: "Salt Lake City is destroying its own livable neighborhoods"
View an editorial from 2019, still relevant today. Lynn Pershing wrote this in April 2019. Read here.
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- Sep 10, 2021
- 1 min
Gaskell Romney, prominent Yalecrest builder
The Romney name is well known in Utah. Learn about our U.S. Senator Mitt Romney's grandfather as a developer of the Yalecrest...
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- Jul 31, 2021
- 1 min
Concerns About New UofU Student Housing
University of Utah West Village Student Housing Project The U is planning to build two 5-story and one 3-story housing structure on the...
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- Jun 9, 2021
- 1 min
State of Streetlight Maintenance in Yalecrest
Watch and listen to an overview of the state of streetlights in the Yalecrest neighborhood, discussed at the Yalecrest Neighborhood...
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- Jun 9, 2021
- 1 min
Notable Yalecrest resident Minnie Viele Miller, "Captain of Commerce"
Yalecrest resident Minnie Viele Miller was one of the land donors behind the Lee Charles Miller Bird Refuge and Nature Park at 1706 E....
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- Apr 8, 2021
- 1 min
History of the Emigration Canyon Railroad
Did you know there was a railroad up Sunnywide Avenue and Emigration Canyon? It's short existence ran 1907-1917. Learn more about it by...
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- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
Yalecrest History and Early Development
The fascinating history of the origin of the Yalecrest neighborhood and the first four homes built here was presented by Virginia Hylton...
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Janet Hemming
- Feb 18, 2021
- 1 min
Ugly 5G poles appearing in Yalecrest and near historic homes
Ugly 5G poles are appearing in Yalecrest and all over Salt Lake and the state, because of a deal between the State Legislature and...
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Janet Hemming
- Jan 27, 2021
- 2 min
Eastside May Get Affordable Housing Zones
Several new zoning initiatives, which could have far-reaching impact on Salt Lake's single-family neighborhoods on the Eastside, will be...
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Janet Hemming
- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
Property Crime Surges 75% in 2020 in District 6
Property crimes in District 6 increased 75% in 2020 according to information provided to KEEP Yalecrest by Salt Lake City Police...
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Janet Hemming
- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
2020 Home Prices Soar in Yalecrest
Home prices in the 84108 zip code, anchored by stylish Yalecrest properties, continue to soar, based on the latest real estate...
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- Jul 16, 2019
- 1 min
Attention Yalecrest Gardeners!
Join your fellow K.E.E.P. members and Cynthia Bee in hosting the GardenComm Small-Lot City Gardens Tour to be held in Yalecrest....
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- Jun 30, 2019
- 1 min
Yalecrest Streetscapes - Then and Now
We have been able to find some photographs of a few scenes in Yalecrest taken about seventy-five or eighty years ago that we'd like to...
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- Apr 11, 2019
- 1 min
Work occurring in Yalecrest, spring 2019
There's an extreme amount of new construction and remodeling happening this spring in Yalecrest,
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