I often drive through West Valley City and wonder why people say it's such an awful place to live. Then I think a bit and realize I'm not seeing the big picture in the community, only a snapshot of a few nice homes. It's so easy to be blind to issues that don't directly impact your personal life.

As for wanting to see the bad areas of Daybreak, I'll send you on a mini tour, but since you don't look at the mess day after day after day, it won't mean a thing to you since it's not your home/life.

Start at the corner of Lumina and Bluerock. The Rainey home that sits on a bare lot with weeds and dead trees. The house is on it's third owner in three years and it's still an eyesore. What happened to 6 months to finish landscape.

Stroll down to the second and third block of Bluerock, don't drive by with a cell phone to your ear, walk to appreciate the area as the neighbors do. Enjoy the landscapes that haven't been cared for in 4 years. You won't see the trash left behind,the old furniture, dead cars, as we have to take care of getting that out of the neighborhood, the HOA doesn't. In the 3rd block you will no longer see the taco stand trailer stored in our neighbors side yard. It stayed there after daily complaints for a year until eviction. You won't see the guy who wanders the alley in his underwear, talking to people who aren't there, he was evicted too.

If you go this week, the block will be fairly clean of junk and weirdos, not because of actions by Kennecott or the HOA.

As you leave Bluerock, turn east on Firmont. On your left in the green court, you will come to the house where the bulldogs bit a neighbor and then bit the responding police officer. It's always been a real attractive place. We could count on them to liven the area with a police call.

But at the end of the day, it obviously doesn't matter what the folks outside of the impact area think, you don't live it everyday, and apparently few care about enough to take action. When I get back to the office, I'll be happy to supply addresses in the rest of the village.