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Art as Daily Experience in Ogden’s Nine Rails Creative District
The Nine Rails Creative District Master Plan was adopted in 2018, and Ogden City and its partners are now implementing the projects and programs identified in the plan.
Award Spotlight: Salt Lake City Reimagines Nature
A commitment to equity and building stewardship shaped the adaptive, multi-pronged engagement approach and yielded an increase in response rates from underrepresented communities.
Awards Spotlight: Water Quality Planning Toolkit for Utah Communities
An intuitive and engaging toolkit for educating elected officials and citizen planners in the complicated and intimidating realm of water-quality management and planning.
A Minnesota Judge Throws the Book at Immoral Tax Assessments
And to all the public officials out there: Please, stop direct assessing for maintenance.
The Great Rebalance
In Ogden City, where I work, we have begun to see large sections of vacant or underutilized retail take on new life.
Call for Nominations!
Serving as an elected leader in APA offers a tremendous opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your networks, and work directly to strengthen the impact of the organization.
APAUT Awards
We are excited to share our annual chapter awards recognizing plans, projects, programs, and individuals that are making a significant contribution to planning in Utah!
To Fully Observe, We Need to Walk
I love them both, but for an extreme introverted thinker like me, a week of travel with two extreme extroverts became a test of endurance.
Study reveals that Utah housing prices have increased 200% in two decades
A new study by MoneyGeek shows that Utah’s cost for housing has jumped by 200% between 2000 and 2022.
DOUBLE WHAMMY
Over-subsidizing housing “actually create(s) more demand, which makes prices rise.” So the solution, he said, is to rely “on the free market” while also upping inventory to relieve demand pressures.
Clamor is King
We’re drawn to the profession by our inner need to be “peacemakers” and to build understanding.