Tired of staring at the weed-ridden parking strip across the
street? The junk cars on the lawn? The strange, half-finished
addition on the house? Or the still standing yard sale signs?
Pull out your iPhone and get a bitchin' with Salt Lake City's
new shiny app "Salt Lake City 311."  The app, allows you to use
the phone's GPS to mark a location, take a photo of the
offending weeds, inoperable cars, un-permitted construction or
illegal signs and send it out across the internet pipes into the
halls of City. No more silly forms, talking to people or
anything so mundane. Just a quick, efficient way to tattle on
your neighbor.  Way better than scowling passive aggressively
when you bring in the garbage, right?  There is not, as yet,
anyway to get the city to help you get said neighbor to return
the circular saw he borrowed a year ago, to stop drinking beer
on the front lawn with his shirt off or to keep his dog from
crapping on your lawn, but one day, one day.