Governor unveils $29.5 billion budget focused on 3 areas — people, growth and good governance.
Council chair Darin Mano said “mountains were moved” to get the ordinance passed this year.
I’ve been noticing the attention that’s been cropping up around the country given to places that are actively reforming their local land use regulations, primarily for housing affordability, but for other reasons as well. And while many of these other states efforts have been noted, Utah’s actions are missing.
A recent grant to Utah’s Department of Transportation has the agency thinking of new ways to improve road safety involving wildlife.
$70 million will help fund the addition of a climbing lane and replace an interchange on I-15 in Cedar City
Over the last couple of weeks, the regulation of land use by development agreement has reared its head several times, enough so that I feel like I need to clear my soul about some of this.
Check out this NYT article, One big reason the U.S. housing market is broken: Owners don’t want to give up their cushy old loans.
One piece of bicycle-related draft legislation is gaining some traction: the Active Transportation and Canal Trails Amendments.
The theme of this year’s Spring Conference is “Bridging The Gap Between Local Needs and State Growing Pains.” We are looking for sessions with a special emphasis on water, housing, transportation, land use planning, and legislative how-tos.
This Utah city is among the first to try something different. Can it change the conversation around housing and transportation? By Katie McKellar, DeseretNews
State must build nearly 28K housing units a year to keep up with growth, legislative auditors say. By Katie McKellar, DeseretNews
The Legislative Audit Subcommittee released its report on Utah housing policy yesterday. The overall message that I got out of the report was, “there’s more that can be done, get going!” This reflects the attitude of Gov. Spencer Cox, as noted in previous posts, and that of legislative leadership.
