What do you want to see for the future of the Jordan River?
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Click the image above for a video about the Blueprint Jordan River 2020!
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In 2008, Utahns came together to create a vision for the Jordan River Parkway. This vision, called the Blueprint Jordan River, helped to elevate the Jordan River from an overlooked and neglected drainage into a cherished community asset that boasts the longest paved trail in western U.S. and provides an escape to nature and countless recreational opportunities to local residents
Now we're charting a course for the next generation! The Jordan River Commission and Envision Utah invite you to share your ideas and dreams for the future of the Jordan River. Whether you jog along the Jordan River Parkway every day, paddle down the river every few months, or even if you've never been, we want to hear your voice! Click below or visit
blueprintjordanriver.org
to take the survey and share your vision for the Jordan River.
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A “Uniquely Utahn” approach to planning for the future
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We recently took a look at the impacts of the Quality Growth Strategy, one of Envision Utah’s earliest projects, and published the results showing how we’ve done over the past 20 years in regard to the original vision in the
Quality
Growth
Strategy Update
. (The Salt Lake Tribune wrote an article about our findings that ran in Sunday's edition,
click here to read→
).
The vision—facilitated by Envision Utah to help residents maintain a high quality of life in the face of rapid growth—brought together nearly 20,000 Utahns across the Wasatch Front and Back. Together, they created a 20-year vision for issues like air quality, water use, transportation, land use, and more. That vision has guided decision making, policies, and everyday actions for more than 20 years.
So how did we do it? Addressing growth is a complicated issue. And Utahns traditionally prefer local autonomy to a “top- down” approach to solving problems. They are, however, eager to collaborate on important issues.
It's those factors that led to the innovation that would become the foundation for Envision Utah’s 5-step process: a bottom-up, nonpartisan, collaborative decision-making process that engages the public to develop and implement a vision for the future.
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ICYMI: Envision Utah's 2020 Quality Communities was a big success!
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Thanks to everyone who made the 2020 Quality Communities Academy such a great success! This year's academy was all about mixed-use centers. Utah experts provided an overview of why a centers-based strategy is vital as we plan for population growth and how strategic land use can help maintain a high quality of life in Utah.
The Quality Communities Academy speakers included:
- Ari Bruening, President and CEO-Envision Utah
- Ted Knowlton, Deputy Director-Wasatch Front Regional Council
- Makaylah Respicio-Evans, Associate Planner-Envision Utah
- Megan Townsend, Transportation & Land Use Connection Program Manager-Wasatch Front Regional Council
- Paul Allred, Community Development Director-City of Holladay
- Steven James, Director of Planning and Community Design-Daybreak Communities
- Randy Woodbury, President-Woodbury Corporation
If you missed it or want to reference the presentation, a link to the recording can be found
here
. If you want to view the presentation slides, they can be downloaded
here
. (Please feel free to share these links with anyone who may be interested).
Watch for our upcoming quality communities guide! In the coming weeks Envision Utah will be releasing
CREATING COMMUNITY: A GUIDE TO WALKABLE CENTERS,
which will be a resource for creating live, work, and play centers in Utah.
If you have any questions about the Quality Communities Academy, please feel free to contact Ryan Beck at
rbeck@envisionutah.org
.
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In anticipation of Utah County’s projected growth of one million people by 2065, the Valley Visioning project set out to explore various development strategies and ask residents and stakeholders to vote for their preferences. The ultimate goal was to inform policy makers and leaders of which strategies resonate best with the public as ways to achieve the most desirable outcomes.
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Growth in Utah is a hot button issue for many folks. We take a look at Envision Utah’s new report on growth in our state. Plus, it was a tight primary race for Utah’s republican gubernatorial candidate but we now have a winner. We sit down with Spencer Cox. Is it the end of the road for Jon Huntsman, Jr.? What his supporters are eyeing next.
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Envision Utah has released
an analysis
that compared projections from the late 1990s to the realities of today. That study says Utah saved roughly 140 square miles of farmland and open space that would otherwise have been developed in that time.
In other ways, though, the strategies haven’t worked as well.
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Like all of you, we’re worried about keeping ourselves and our families healthy, and we’re concerned about both the short- and long-term impacts of the current pandemic. But thanks to your generous support, we’re also able to remain focused on other critical long-term issues like air quality, water, land use & transportation, education, disaster resilience, and more. Thank you for your support!
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