"Rocky vigorously opposes the Inland Port and opposes the current proposal for the warehouse district in the Northwest Quadrant of Salt Lake City. '"Such a horrible idea on so many levels" — former SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson rails against inland port' Salt Lake Tribune, March 7, 2022" |
"'It’s outrageous that Salt Lake City is proposing another warehouse district, which will further degrade our air quality with polluting warehouse development, when dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is increasingly threatening to human health,' Stop the Polluting Port Coalition and Great Salt Lake Audubon wrote in call-to-action emails sent this week." |
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West Side Story—Part I
"...Anderson believes neighborhood business and walkable neighborhoods would reduce dependence on cars and would be more appropriate for the future of West Side development. We will also talk with Mayor Anderson, existing community leaders, and emerging leaders in the neighborhood and ethnic business community about their ideas for the future of Salt lake City’s West Side." |
"'We want to see an economic development plan for the West Side that helps bring in more mixed housing, including affordable housing, along with neighborhood retail that will bring more diversity and convenience to neighborhoods,' Anderson said." |
"Mayor Anderson proposed trading the city’s easement on the plaza in return for the 2.17 acres and the promise to build a community facility and provide programs for the 'underserved'." |
"But will the infusion of new faces create the “big changes” Wright expects and hopes for? After all, it’s not as if Democrats didn’t have fiery progressives before now. Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson represented that strong-worded wing of the party but had few companions in his party known for their tough talk." |
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"The judges also said the sale was 'reasonable' because the city received $5 million for an easement valued at $500,000. The millions will build a center in the west-side community of Glendale." |
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"Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson's effort to evict the Union Pacific Railroad from the Poplar Grove and Glendale neighborhoods has been foiled in federal court, for now." |
"...the mitigation plan forbids Union Pacific from traveling faster than 30 mph in the neighborhood and would not allow the railroad to take high-level radioactive waste through the 900 South corridor." |
"...I think he has learned from the hard issues he has faced this past four years. I therefore support the re-election of Rocky Anderson as Salt Lake City mayor." - Edie Trimmer |
" 'Within the next year or two we will be able to reconfigure the Grant Tower tracks and remove the 9th South Union Pacific line from 900 South forever,' Anderson said." |
"[A] major effort that relates to transportation, the environment, open spaces, and quality of life is the outstanding...Union Pacific taking its trains off the 900 South line..." |
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"The battle over renovations at Pioneer Park has pitted Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson against the City Council for years, and now the administration is taking its case to the people." |
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" 'We used to have rail lines running through here,' Mayor Anderson said, 'and it served as an effective barrier between the east and west sides of our city. This is now stunning open space.' " |
" 'We're thrilled with the results,' Anderson said. 'There's been a very positive trend for the past several years in terms of overall satisfaction by residents of city services and also the perception of safety in the community.' " |
"For a lot of people, Pioneer Park's best features are overshadowed by a seedy reputation. Changing that image will be tough and Mayor Rocky Anderson is taking on a plan he says both he and citizens want. Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake City Mayor: 'Cities, to a very large extent, can be defined by the kinds of parks and open space that they have.' " |
" 'This new precinct is the embodiment of our community's resolve to stop crime,' Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson told a group of officers, city officials and neighborhood residents attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony." |
"Anderson touts public safety improvements on the city's west side over the past four years. The city recently opened Fire Station No. 9 near the airport and earlier this month opened the Pioneer Police Precinct, 1040 West 700 South." |
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Rocky's letter to Archie Archuleta and reminiscences about their fights for peace and justice.
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"[Archie Archuletta] worked as the administrative assistant for minority affairs as part of former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson’s administration." |
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"Inclusiveness and the valuing of diversity was core to virtually everything we did when I was mayor."- Rocky Anderson |
"The mayor [Rocky Anderson], who says he has made great efforts to diversify the city's staff, was offended that the council would cut the Equal Employment Opportunity coordinator and an inspector's job in Community and Economic Development, especially because the two employees were ethnic minorities." |
"According to [Rocky], diversity in practice brings strength to our communities and is not easily accomplished. He says practicing diversity, actually listening and learning from alternative views takes conscious efforts. While difficult to accomplish, diversity builds a society based on respect and equality." |
"His letters to community members are mailed in at least three languages. And he always has a Spanish translator on hand at his roving 'Saturday Morning With the Mayor' events. If Anderson were prohibited from such actions by Utah's so-called English-Only Law, he says his constituents would be at a loss." |
"How ironic that Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson is being criticized for not appointing more women to Salt Lake City's Airport Authority Board. Ironic, and unfair. Anderson has a reputation as a champion of diversity. He has appointed what is believed to be the first woman chief of staff in the city's history." |
"At worst, it would deprive non-English speakers of their rights... Anderson and seven other individuals filed suit against the law just before it went into effect..." |
"Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson calls it 'blatantly racist.' " |
"The Utah House of Representatives on Thursday defeated an initiative that would have made English the official language of Utah. So in Utah, for now, many state-sponsored informational pamphlets will still be available in English, Spanish and various other languages." |
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"If elected, Ibarra said he would address homelessness, help businesses develop and stay at the table through difficult negotiations with other leaders." |
"With a dozen members of Utah's gay and lesbian community looking on, [Rocky] Anderson signed an executive order giving city employees the opportunity to have their unmarried partners sign up for health-care benefits. 'It's done,' the mayor said, dropping his pen. But for some conservative politicians the fight has just begun. They reject the gay community's view of the city's order, saying it's part of a broader effort to one day elevate gay marriage to an equal footing with traditional marriage." |
" 'A radical compassionate, and compassionately radical,' pithily surmised former mayor and international human rights activist Rocky Anderson" |
" 'The search for a highly competent, dignified, principled running mate has been arduous,' Rocky stated. 'Luis exceeds any expectations I had. He will inform, uplift, and motivate in this campaign, just as he does every day in his inspirational work.' " |
"And then, as if on Kafka's cue, a yellow-naped Amazonian parrot, perched in the corner of his room, let out a squawk... The strangest thing about Anderson is not that he has a parrot in his office, but that he is in office at all." |
"The Alliance for Unity, the brainchild of two political opposites — industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr., and Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson — brought together community leaders of many faiths, ethnic backgrounds and community interests, including the editor of this newspaper." |
"According to the mayor, diver- sity in practice brings strength to our communities and is not easily accomplished. He says practicing diversity, actually listening and learning from alternative views takes conscious efforts. While difficult to accomplish, diversity builds a society based on respect and equality." |
" 'There is sort of a feeding frenzy and I get to be the chum,' [Anderson] says. 'I have never resorted to cheap personal attacks and yet it seems like a lot of legislators are spending a whole lot of time up there doing just that.' " |
"The city’s energetic mayor, Rocky Anderson, a former Mormon who left the Church at the age of eighteen after what he said was 'an intense period of self-examination,' has made bridging the divide between non-Mormons and Mormons a priority of his administration. 'I believe we’d have a far better community,' he told me, 'if people could break out of their isolation on both sides.' " |
"Two years after his election, Anderson's job performance polls showed he had turned half of his LDS detractors into supporters." |
" 'We both wanted to bring peace to the community over this,' Anderson said. 'He and I would find matters where our viewpoints converged, but there also was some disagreement. Sometimes, there wasn't compromise, but there was a healthy mutual respect, and we approached our disagreements with a healthy sense of humor.' " |
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NOTE: (Mitt Romney has not endorsed any candidate in the 2023 SLC mayoral race) |
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"The goal of the project is to get the community at large involved in thoughtful conversations about how to get along better, in spite of religious differences. The mayor told KSL the long bitter controversy over Salt Lake City's main street plaza is the impetus behind this project. Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City: 'I was committed to doing whatever I could to never see the kind of meanness that came about, the hostility that rose above the surface based on differences in religious affiliation.' " |
"Anderson said he was compelled to agree with the court’s ruling that the city was responsible for controlling conduct on the public sidewalk, not the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which had imposed a long list of forbidden behaviors. The mayor’s statement came after two closed-door meetings with advisors. The mayor said he would like reasonable and constitutional restrictions on the sidewalk, and would take to the City Council recommendations for so-called time, place and manner rules. 'If, hypothetically, they came up with something that was constitutionally suspect, I would veto it. We’ve had enough of this division in the community,' Anderson said. Anderson also issued a plea that visitors to the plaza 'be peaceful, respectful of others and -- most of all -- kind and friendly in our interactions.'" |
"Mayor Rocky Anderson, who has been working on ways to tie University events into Downtown, is excited by the collaboration between downtown businesses, Salt Lake City, and the University. 'These tailgate parties will add a whole new dimension to enjoying Ute games,' said Anderson. 'We all want Downtown and the Utes to succeed. These parties are one more way for everyone to get behind the team and for football fans to get behind Downtown. With the TRAX light rail line to take fans to Rice-Eccles Stadium in just minutes, there’s no better place to tailgate than the Gallivan Center or The Gateway.' " |
"On numerous occasions, including statements reported in the Deseret News, I have publicly — and consistently — stated that, of course, the LDS Temple is a major landmark in Salt Lake City, which should be one of our city's primary icons seen by people throughout the world during the 2002 Games. The temple not only signifies the fact that Salt Lake City is the world headquarters for the LDS Church, but it symbolizes much of the heritage of our city and state — a heritage I greatly respect. |
"Salt Lake City's Mayor is fed up with Utah laws he says are restrictive and ill-conceived. Speaking out today, Rocky Anderson stressed 'Freedom' from public policies he says the Legislature needs to change for the good of the state. Rocky Anderson is taking on the Legislature, calling for change on seven divisive topics he says hurt both the state's image and public safety. Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake City Mayor: 'The image is that this is sort of a whacko repressed place, and that we have all these bizarre laws. We need to get away from that image.' Directly to the point, the mayor wants to boost gun safety, saying state gun laws are inadequate to protect people. He wants to force government contractors to pay a living wage, undoing a law passed at the capitol three years ago. And, he's taking on the alcohol laws again." |
"Cory Stringfellow, 31, was among 35 inmates whose prison sentences were commuted by Clinton during his last hours in office. Utah's two Republican senators also had lobbied on Stringfellow's behalf. But the Salt Lake couple say it was Anderson who waged a personal, and sometimes lonely, crusade for three years against what they describe as unreasonably long prison terms for drug offenders. That campaign continued last week as Anderson went to Washington, D.C., and publicly asked Clinton to grant clemency for Stringfellow and what might be hundreds of nonviolent drug offenders." |
"Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson called Hinckley "one of those rare people who exuded such tremendous warmth, wit and goodwill, with people of all kinds. 'In my dealings with President Hinckley, he was always incredibly gracious and strove in every way to bring people together while respecting their differences.' Anderson said he always walked away from his interactions with Hinckley 'feeling uplifted and even energized. He had enormous energy and drive, even at a very advanced age and seemed remarkably sharp, always.' " |
"Wolf and Anderson received word that Congress had earmarked $1.2 million for Salt Lake City's after-school activities for youth ages 11 to 17 — by far the largest piece of funding the nearly 2-year-old YouthCity program has received." |
" 'I hope you know how welcome you are in our community and the strength you bring to it,' Anderson told the refugees from more than five countries. "Bringing different stories to us opens such amazing windows in our own lives.' " |
"Anderson saw for himself the plight of young girls when he attended a Global Warming Conference in New Delhi, India last October. Anderson presented a slide show preceding the premiere which included photographs of sections of G.B. Road, a red light district in New Delhi." |
"We represent a group of 28 West High students who were able to participate in a job internship program last summer. The program was run in partnership with Mayor Rocky Anderson's YouthCity Employment Program." |
"The YouthCity Program provides fun, enriching activities for young people during time spent out of school. Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson created the program after taking office in 2000 as a way to provide more after-school programs for local youths." |
"About 50 students greeted Mayor Rocky Anderson at the Union's Crimson Underground for a speech...on the importance of getting involved in the political process, and volunteering." |
"Good after-school and summer programs reduce adolescent crime and keep young people from getting on a destructive criminal track. Because of these programs, we have a safer community—and we help build better lives and better families." - Rocky Anderson, Catalyst Magazine |
" 'The city has really neglected its human infrastructure: our kids,' [Mayor Rocky Anderson] told the Deseret News. . . 'The stars are all aligned,' Anderson said, since Salt Lake City just accepted $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Education to expand YouthCity, its 2-year-old package of programs for children and teens. Now, with the Olympic money, 'this is a no-brainer,' at least to the mayor, to lock YouthCity in for the long term." |
"The net result has been lost and ruined lives, many of which could have been saved through the utilization of effective drug prevention programs. I’m not simply against D.A.R.E.; I’m for effective programs." — Rocky Anderson |
"In a long-awaited announcement, Anderson laid out the city's plan to turn its old library building into the Utah Science Center and headquarters for Global Artways, the Center for Documentary Arts and the Center for Communities and Culture, a cooperative of ethnic and arts organizations. Many CCC groups have spent years looking for exhibit and performance space; they range from the International Children's Choir to La Alianza Latina para el Progresso." |
"Some 4,000 Salt Lake children and teenagers take part in the city's youth programs — but many more miss out. And that, Mayor Rocky Anderson says, poses a danger to the whole community. 'There's a huge, gaping hole waiting for about 80 percent of our kids,' he said, adding that young people with nothing to do after school 'are prone to the temptations of drugs, sex and crime,' along with too many hours of 'violent, mind-numbing' TV." |
Children are out of school for 80% of their waking hours each year. Most of that time is unstructured. That time offers both tremendous risks and remarkable opporutnities–too often, wasted opportunities." Rocky Anderson, Catalyst Magazine, August 2022 |
"Salt Lake City has a new planning director, one who is more in line with Mayor Rocky Anderson's vision for the city [...] artist and Artspace founder Stephen Goldsmith." |
"Rocky Anderson put out a call to artists, to use the sidewalks and parks to perform, display, and sell their art. Sidewalks are just sidewalks. But the Mayor wants them to also be filled with art. He says it will improve the city's vibrancy, culture and creativity." |
"The Rocky Roast, an evening of allegedly good-natured ribbing of Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson, will raise funds for Salt Lake Acting Company." |
"Mayor Rocky Anderson should be lauded for trying to bring artwork to downtown Salt Lake City. He should also be lauded for recognizing that the downtown 'paint the kiosk' project was really a white elephant in disguise." |
"In 2007, then-Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson honored artist, collector and Brushworks Gallery owner Darryl Drage with the Mayor's Artist Award for Service to the Arts." |
"Anderson and some select reporters will trek from art gallery to art gallery Friday night as the mayor attempts to promote the city's art houses. The trek even has a catchy name, 'Rock and Stroll 2003.' " |
"Five years after getting his 'face bashed in,' Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson still wants to lift a restriction on the number of bars allowed on a city block. He said increasing the concentration of bars would boost another big idea of his — a downtown arts district with a new 2,400-seat first-run Broadway theater and a renovated Utah Theatre on Main Street." |
"Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson still has to win the City Council's endorsement of his open-space plan. There will, however, be an amphitheater and other open space around the new Main Library building, which is scheduled to open next January." |
"Members of both bands fondly recall in 2002, when Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Olympics, the gigs were plentiful. They wound up performing at the same party, thrown by then-Mayor Rocky Anderson outside the City-County Building, freezing their behinds off in the February snow." |
"As Mayor of Salt Lake City, and on behalf of our residents, I am pleased to welcome the first Stradivarius International Violin Competition in June 2007. We are delighted that you have chosen our city to host your competition." |
"The piece, titled 'Elementals', was on a best-selling Brubeck album. The whole idea of reviving it came from jazz music fan, Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake Mayor: 'I've had so many people held hostage in my home while I had them listen to this piece. It is a phenomenal work.' "
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"She also kept the mood light, chatting with the crowd about whether she had worn the same skirt during her last visit to Salt Lake City, and even dedicating a song to Mayor Rocky Anderson, a friend-of-a-friend, in 'Hey, Big Shot.' " |
"Anderson said, that 'those communities that are more open and welcoming to all different kinds of people and have more outlets for artistic and cultural expression are doing the best in terms of sustained economic development.' " |
"Taking over Salt Lake City, Mayor Rocky Anderson has said, was like 'turning a ship around.' Helping him steer was Stephen Goldsmith, sculptor, nonprofit housing developer and self-described 'fourth-generation outsider.' " |
"Her works, (Galina Perova), cover the gamut from portraits (she did the official portrait of Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson, and one of a president of the World Bank, among others) to still life to landscape and even abstraction." |
A quick clip from a 2007 interview with Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. |
"Salt Lake rockers Cory Mon & the Starlight Gospel stopped by to perform on Park City Television. Former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson was also a scheduled guest, and he grabbed a guitar and joined the band on 'The River.' " |
