Staff acknowledges that allowing digital signage in the City Center is a significant change in strategy, but that change is not inconsistent with the goal of reducing the number and combined square footage of billboards where feasible
Share your story, your lessons learned, and let’s build and celebrate planning practice in Utah! It is the intention of APA Utah to promote these award winners throughout the year following the announcement of the awards.
Out of America’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, nine have experienced home price growth of more than 50 percent since late 2017 when the tax bill was signed into law. They are Boise, Spokane, Austin, Phoenix, Tucson, Colorado Springs, and a cluster of Utah cities: Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Provo.
As we address the various planning issues that challenge our Utah communities, do we ask, as Donald Schön and our Code of Ethics require, how are my actions and decisions interrelated and why do I do what I do, and for what purpose?
https://envisionutah.org/creating-communities-guide After many years of stakeholder and working group engagement, Envision Utah released the Creating Communities: A Guide to Walkable Centers at yesterday’s event. This guide is an informative tool for city staff, officials, planners, and the general public to learn more about creating centers as a strategy to accommodate Utah’s growing population while maintaining […]
This article unpacks literature on Latino Urbanism to identify a holistic, thematically organized framework for understanding Latina/o sociospatial practices and to suggest how planners might plan for and/or better support Latino Urbanisms.
While most companies strive to build a culture of trust and transparency, it can be difficult to ensure people demonstrate ethical behavior at every level of a business, internally and externally.
The report outlines the potential impacts on the neighborhood’s racial diversity and the availability of below-market housing units.
In order to give citizen power, institutions do not look at neighborhoods that are poor
and need to be fixed. Instead, they understand that communities have assets that can be leveraged for development. Institutions that follow the more traditional path of a needs-based approach often ask what is wrong with a community.
With 100% of the state experiencing drought conditions, Gov. Spencer J. Cox joined water officials from around the state to highlight current conservation efforts and outline measures needed to plan for Utah’s water future.
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Utah is currently in a State of Emergency due to drought conditions, 90% experiencing extreme drought. This is a unique challenge for Utahans, since “statewide reservoir levels are 15% lower than this time last year”(water.Utah.gov). In addition to droughts, we are experiencing severe heat and numerous wildfires.
