This analysis explores Salt Lake county’s racial makeup over a period of fourteen years (2010 to 2023) by census tract, observing spatial inequities and their relationships with a rapidly urbanizing valley. We witness ballooning gentrification and renting crises around the Utah Department of Transportation’s (UDOT’s) I-15 highway expansion and the municipality’s transit-oriented development (TOD) proposal as a solution to a burgeoning metropolitan city. After the H.R. 828 Investing in Opportunity Act and H.B. 462 Utah Housing Affordability Amendments were effected in 2018 and 2022, respectively, many peripheral communities renting in Salt Lake were victims of upzoning, often near transit, which reclassified land to allow multi-unit housing—these cases of local displacement are a byproduct of Transit Station Area (TSA) zoning practices from H.B. 462. However, the issue lies not with the rezoning increasing housing units, but with incentivizing land-owners to evict longtime residents alongside poor tenant protections. With current legislation and redevelopment processes, Salt Lake is set to continue cementing—and its posterity to continue inheriting—an inequitable space where marginalized groups are cyclically pushed more and more west.