LOGAN – Logan Mayor Holly Daines was back for her monthly Speak to the Mayor hour Wednesday afternoon during KVNU’s For the People program.
The mayor agreed that some of these huge apartment complexes, such as Millcreek across from Logan High School, have turned out well and not distracted from the downtown.
“Exactly. And as we’ve talked about before we need a variety of housing options, and it makes sense to densify in downtown where there are services, where people can walk. And that’s, of course, not the only kind of housing that we have approved in Logan.
“We have a lot of single-family homes going in, we have town homes, we have, of course, certainly some multi-family. Hopefully with that combination, we can start to provide enough supply that then prices start to come down a little bit with some more affordable housing,” explained Daines.
One report said that the average home price in six cities in Utah is a million dollars.
The mayor also talked about progress being made at the old Cache Valley Mall property.
“The exciting thing is, they are recycling so much of that concrete material. We knew a lot of it would come to the landfill and that takes up space, that’s part of the process. But they have done such a great job of recycling the concrete onsite, and they will be using a lot of that material, reusing it to create new infrastructure, new parking, those sorts of things. I think they’ve done a great job at trying to utilize that material in a good way.”
Daines also gave a shout-out to lifeguards at the Logan Aquatic Center.
“Our parks director sent me a text the week before (last week)…that he’d received. I’m just going to read this out loud, ‘Huge shout-out to the lifeguards here. I was in the larger pool when suddenly the teenage guard dove into the water and pulled out a submerged two-year old all by himself. Within 30 seconds a back-up guard was covering his position while he tenderly carried the scared girl to other female lifeguards that held her and comforted her until her Mom could come.'”
The statement said they were swift, professional and compassionate.
Daines said most of these lifeguards are 15 to 17 years-old and, often, it’s their first job and they are trained extensively.
The mayor said she went down there and spoke with some of these lifeguards, who told her incidents like these happen a couple times a week during the summer. Daines said they are doing an amazing job.