Power to the People

Dakota Pacific successfully lobbied for legislative interference on its behalf in 2023, threatened more legislative intervention last year, and then ultimately demanded that the Summit County, UT Council vote in favor of amending its Development Agreement “or else.” In a highly pressured 4-1 vote, County Council voted on December 18th 2024 to enact Ordinance 987 permitting Dakota Pacific to develop a project with far greater density, traffic, and use impacts than the developer’s vested rights otherwise allow. Despite overwhelming, well-documented public opposition to Dakota Pacific’s plans and its failures to collaborate with the community, County Council caved and sided with a private equity-backed real estate developer over its own people.

But when representative government fails to represent its people, the people have recourse afforded to them by the State of Utah through the ballot referendum process. Voters across Summit County are coming together to circulate and sign a petition to put Ordinance No 987 on November 2025 ballots.

Those who sign the petition in support of a ballot referendum affirm: the validity of the existing development agreement for Dakota Pacific and all future landowners; support for voters’ rights; the very foundations of democratic process; and the future of Summit County, UT.

4,554 valid and verified signatures are due by March 3rd. Let’s do this, Summit County.