Educated Guests Make Good Neighbors: How to Educate Short-Term Rental Guests May 20 – 2:00-3:30PM MDT Every community leader has heard horror stories about bad short-term rental guests, but most short-term rental ordinances and discussions focus on hosts and property managers. What if there were ways to improve the other side of the short-term rental (more…)

Tools to Increase Housing Affordability: Lessons Learned from Park City and Beyond June 1 – 2:00-3:30PM MDT Mountain and resort communities have been working on issues regarding affordable housing for years. As a result, there’s a variety of different tools out there, but which one is right for your community? Thomas Eddington Jr. (director at (more…)

Why: For planners and staff who have to prepare the annual reporting form. Learn about tools, resources, and deadlines. Discuss the process and outcomes and ways to improve it.  When: June 2, 2021 Time: 12:30- 3:00 pm Where: Bountiful City Hall 795 South Main Street Bountiful, Utah 84010 This will be streamed on Zoom for (more…)

Gain Insights and Tools to Address Housing Affordability About this event (Full program can be found Here: 2021 Housing Affordability Seminar Program FINAL) In response to feedback from last year’s summit attendees, this June we’re convening a special mid-year Cache Summit Seminar focused on Housing Affordability, in addition to the traditional annual event in November! (more…)

Vail InDEED: An Innovative Approach to Increase the Home Supply for Year Round Local Residents June 15 – 2:00-3:30PM MDT Many gateway communities have adopted similar housing policies and regulations to improve affordable housing access, whether they be inclusionary zoning, commercial linkage, or development impact fees, and yet, the one thing we all have in common (more…)

Join planning practitioners and allies across Utah for a dynamic panel and presentation on the perspectives and experiences of navigating through the pandemic that share the need for equity-centered practices in and beyond crises. An equity toolkit will also be provided to encourage long-term application. Open to all those interested in the intersections of race, (more…)

Please join us for a continuing discussion on solving housing issues throughout Sevier County Revisit the six strategies for promoting housing that we covered in Summit I Housing Assessments – What they are, how to conduct one and how to use one A discussion with Brent Bateman, the former Utah Ombudsman on Land Use Law (more…)

The Evolving World of ADU Regulations Wednesday, July 7 at 1:00 p.m. EDT Participants of this live webinar are eligible for 1.5 AICP CM Law credits. Donald Elliott, FAICP, of Clarion Associates, a high energy urban planner and lawyer, explores how America’s cities and counties are regulating ADUs, how those regulations are changing as we (more…)

The book editors will introduce the webinar series and the challenges advocates for smart growth face today. They will review the history of the smart growth concept and provide an overview of its evolution over time. They will address governance issues and describe how smart growth has been pursued at the local, state, regional, and (more…)

Major housing shortages continue to affect communities in the U.S. and abroad. Many well-intended planning efforts seeking to address this problem are failing to deliver high-quality results, even when they’re aimed at filling the gap of “missing middle housing” in cities and towns. Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network as Dan (more…)