SALT LAKE CITY — Bryant Heath ... year and then I just kind of looked at a map of the city and estimated that this is probably a doable project within 2020," he said, reflecting on it.

Any potential new county would have to meet certain requirements, like not splitting up an existing city and not jacking up the cost for services in Salt Lake County, according to the bill.

That's why Salt Lake City is looking to completely rewrite its zoning map, trimming 26 existing mixed-use and commercial zones, differentiated by height, into six more distinctive zones.

The Republican-controlled Legislature approved a map in 2021 that carved up Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County, the state ... state legislature divided the city’s former Democratic-majority ...