Alarmed by polls showing increasingly negative views about the ever-expanding state, Utah officials plan a sweeping campaign to gather residents’ input on issues such as housing, traffic, recreation and quality of life.
, while others are grasping for economic development.
“Growth decisions aren’t easy,” the survey tells participants. “Sometimes we have to adjust our current way of thinking and living in order to reach a desired future outcome.” “What we don’t want to do is bury our head in the sand and pretend growth is not happening,” said Ari Bruening, president and CEO of the regional planning agencyGuiding Our Growth’s tax-funded public surveys, data modeling, workshops and community forums — to be led by Envision Utah and other regional counterparts — are already underway atAnswers collected through February will feed a series of more detailed growth scenarios, with analysis and modeling by the University of Utah’s Kem C.
More than 20 years ago, Utah was recovering from a 1990s recession and people began to move here in noticeably large numbers, edging the state’s population toward 2 million. Residential development gobbled up open fields in the suburbs across Salt Lake and Utah counties and Interstate 15 traffic slowed to a smog-generating halt.and what it meant for Utahns’ way of life.
“The reason Utah is a great place to live today is because we did this planning work in the past,” Hanson said. “We can still be a great place to live in the future — if we put in the work to continue this long-range planning and thinking about how our communities will grow.”
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