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Wasatch Planners Factor In a Surge of Commuters
The Salt Lake Tribune March 6, 2003.  Salt Lake County continues to be the economic engine that drives the state, but it also is taking more working parts to run the machine -- and an increasing number of those parts are being imported from farther away.

Weak economy eroding slow-growth policies
Deseret News February 9, 2003.  Colorado towns now taking steps to spur development

Ski Slope Gentrification
The Salt Lake Tribune January 13, 2003.  Clifford asserts that average working people no longer can afford to live in ski towns that have been stripped of their charm right along with their interesting residents.

Utah One of 10 Fastest-Growing States
The Salt Lake Tribune December 21, 2002.  Utah is still growing at a faster rate than the nation as a whole, and it is still attracting newcomers -- though the numbers continue to decrease.

Toll-less in Seattle for Ages, but Ready to Move Forward
The New York Times (free registration required) November 12, 2002.  After two decades of steadily increasing traffic, however, Seattle's roads are clogged, bridges are in disrepair, and regional planners and some commuters have begun to consider tolls to be part of a solution.

Open space still shrinking
Deseret News November 11, 2002.  The Draper City Council's approval of a controversial 61-acre housing development last week brought another issue into focus: Draper's open space is quickly disappearing.

S.L. County Residents Tackle Open Space
The Salt Lake Tribune November 8, 2002.  Surveys say it. Political leaders hear it: Wasatch Front residents are interested in preserving open space.

Parched Santa Fe Makes Rare Demand on Builders
The New York Times (free registration required) November 3, 2002.  For every new home they build in Santa Fe, they must first install, free of charge, 8 to 12 new high-efficiency toilets in existing homes, hotels and shops.

Wildlife Migration Corridors Heating Up as Issue in Development
The Salt Lake Tribune October 17, 2002.  "The wildlife was definitely one reason we chose to live up here in what my husband calls our 'island in the sky,' " said SunCrest resident Itajai Wignall, whose flower beds on Traverse Ridge are full of plants favored by mule deer. "The deer and foxes were here first, and it would be a great loss to everyone if they couldn't live here anymore."

Council Seeks to Create a Long-Term Open Spaces Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune October 11, 2002.  The goal: to forge a long-range planning consensus as the Wasatch Front's growing population continues to devour real estate.

Officials float water-project ideas
Deseret News October 5, 2002.  State water leaders are looking at the possibility of pumping water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Wyoming-Utah border, around the Uinta Mountains and into Echo Reservoir on the Weber River as one possible solution to meeting the state's anticipated growth.

Housing's Unwelcome Mat
The Salt Lake Tribune October 5, 2002.  If those who build and live in apartments and condominiums sometimes get the feeling they are not wanted, well, it's not their imagination.

Stop Creep Up Foothills, Davis Says
The Salt Lake Tribune October 4, 2002.  Davis County residents are ready to put the brakes on rooftops creeping farther up the eastern foothills.

Davis says enough development
Deseret News October 3, 2002.  The overwhelming majority -- 91 percent -- of Davis County residents don't want any more development in the foothills.

U.S. Cities Getting Larger by Swallowing Neighboring Suburbs
The Salt Lake Tribune September 28, 2002.  Census 2000 figures show the average size of the nation's 100 most populated cities is about 168 square miles, more than triple the size in 1950.

Development and a Drought Cut Carolinas' Water Supply
The New York Times (free registration required) August 29, 2002.  In a study released today, three national environmental organizations called attention to the connection between suburban development and water shortages.

Careless Waste of Water Threatens Las Vegas' Growth
The Salt Lake Tribune August 25, 2002.  But this year, Las Vegas, at 1.5 million people and counting, will exceed its allotment for the first time by an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 acre-feet.

High-Density Housing Finds Home in Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune July 28, 2002.  At Suncrest, roomy, woodsy homes sit on lots about half the size of traditional suburban parcels.

Fighting about land
Deseret News July 18, 2002.  Morgan County torn over impact of project

Development on the march around Camp Williams
Deseret News July 16, 2002.  Military site and new neighbors are getting along

Growth squeezes tourist hubs
Deseret News July 4, 2002.  Many places overwhelmed by their own appeal

Growth Squeezes Locals Out of Paradise
The Salt Lake Tribune June 23, 2002.  ...New condos and vacation homes renting for as much as $4,000 per week are filled with summer tourists, while even the shabbiest homes are now priced beyond the reach of most local workers.

Traffic Jams Cost Salt Lakers $170M
The Salt Lake Tribune June 21, 2002.  Salt Lakers wasted $170 million simply idling on congested roads during 2000, according to an urban mobility study released Thursday by a national transportation research group.

A Development Fuels a Debate on Urbanism
The New York Times (free registration required) June 14, 2002.  Otay Ranch would seem to have everything the back-to-the-future movement in American town-planning could ask for: front porches, back alleys, a network of paths, all built around a park with a barn-style community center and little hub called Heritage Towne Center. It's a village, the developers say, not another sea of stucco rising at the urban edge of San Diego.

Fires From Hell, Views From Heaven
The New York Times (free registration required) June 12, 2002.  Don Smurthwaite, a spokesman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, said that throughout the West's "urban-wildland interface," fire officials now saw 10 times as many homes as there were 25 years ago in "areas that historically are vulnerable to fire."

Leavitt Gives Growth Awards, a Warning on Water
The Salt Lake Tribune June 6, 2002.  Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt is fond of saying that Utah's greatest economic asset is its quality of life.

Plan to Tap Shallow Jordan Aquifer Stirs Debate Among Experts on Water Quality
The Salt Lake Tribune June 1, 2002.  In its relentless quest to accommodate Salt Lake County's burgeoning population, Utah's largest water district is divining in unorthodox places.

Many Utahns balk at plans to boost housing densities
Deseret News May 27, 2002.  Urban planners say dense, mixed-income housing developments conserve resources and build stronger relationships among neighbors.

'Smart-Growth' Housing Still a Tough Sell
The Salt Lake Tribune May 17, 2002.  High-density, mixed-income housing is now a staple of urban planners and smart-growth advocates. But the concept remains a tough sell in Utah, where many residents -- and their elected officials -- remain wedded to the concept of big homes on big lots.

Building fees soar in Colorado
Deseret News April 23, 2002.  Colorado cities struggling to keep up with rapid growth have raised fees on new-home construction as much as 51 percent over the past four years.

Growth Program Reeling
The Salt Lake Tribune April 23, 2002.  The 2002 Legislature's budget bloodletting nearly wiped out the state's primary source for acquiring open space and providing communities with planning help.

Oh, deer! Wild woes increasing
Deseret News April 19, 2002.  As new homes creep ever upward into the Wasatch Mountain foothills, raccoons, foxes and skunks are moving in right behind.

3 brothers believe density is doable
Deseret News April 14, 2002.  Three brothers from the west side -- Paul, Larry and Joe Colosimo, or the Colosimo Brothers developers -- are hoping the City Council will see things their way: that high density is not an "evil" thing.

New urbanism coming to Utah?
Deseret News April 7, 2002.  Briton envisions winding streets, lack of vehicles

Hillside homes assailed
Deseret News April 4, 2002.  The higher up the side of the hill that homes go, the greater the potential for disaster, say forest and wildlife officials, as they watch projects like The Cedars in Cedar Hills being approved.

How High Can They Grow? Hillside Planning Push Under Way
The Salt Lake Tribune April 2, 2002.  Now that Davis County cities have drawn a line to prevent development along Great Salt Lake shorelands to the west, they are turning their attention to the foothills on the east.

UTA: Smart Growth Starts in Midvale
The Salt Lake Tribune March 30, 2002.  Utah Transit Authority officials have been pitching the idea of so-called smart growth communities around TRAX stations from virtually the time they began lobbying for the light rail line.

Alliance Urges Canyons Home Builders to Think Small, Green
The Salt Lake Tribune March 28, 2002.  "Our recommendation is no larger than 4,000 square feet," says Julie Mack, director of the North Fork Preservation Alliance.

TRAX spine called ideal for housing
Deseret News March 16, 2002.  Utah's expected population growth will occur along a "transportation spine" if Envision Utah has an accurate gauge of the state's residents.

Sprawl-Weary Los Angeles Builds Up and In
The New York Times (free registration required) March 10, 2002.  "Congestion has gotten so bad that people are finally willing to trade space for proximity to work and play," said William Fulton, the author of "The Reluctant Metropolis" and head of a land-use think tank in Ventura, the Solimar Research Group.

Leavitt Pledges to Find Funding for Growth Planning Programs
The Salt Lake Tribune March 1, 2002.  With the Legislature poised to eliminate funding for growth planning and open space, Gov. Mike Leavitt held out hope Thursday that at least some of the money could be spared.

Will ax fall on Growth Act?
Deseret News February 28, 2002.  Officials and community leaders rallying to prevent the elimination of the state's main growth planning program say a proposed move by the Legislature to cut costs now will have long-term consequences.

Beyond a Drought, Water Worries Grow
The New York Times (free registration required) February 24, 2002.  "What comes first, the water supply or the housing?" said Gary N. Paulachok, the deputy Delaware River master, who is charged with making sure the users of of the river's water are honoring binding agreements to share it.

A new road down mountain?
Deseret News February 9, 2002.  The developer who's changing the skyline above north Utah County is now ready to bring a major road down the hillside to U-92.

Bluffdale Agrees to Development Project
The Salt Lake Tribune February 8, 2002.  Developers and the City Council, at odds during a vitriolic 2 1/2-year fight over a development proposal that spawned five lawsuits, ended the fracas Thursday.

S.L. adding 60 acres, 4 homes
Deseret News February 7, 2002.  Sixty acres of prime Wasatch foothill land and four homes: The Salt Lake City Council voted this week to annex and allow both.

SLC Annexation Ends Foothills Development Dispute
The Salt Lake Tribune February 7, 2002.  Salt Lake City Council members decided to annex 60 acres in the foothills this week, effectively ending a long battle over open space and development on the east bench.

Is Growth Plan City's Job?
The Salt Lake Tribune February 4, 2002.  The time has come for cities to again make "big plans" for growth, says the designer of what is being hailed as Utah's most significant building in decades.

Rail-oriented projects in works
Deseret News January 31, 2002.  Four projects will pave the way for transit-oriented development, hoping to show as many as 27 communities along the Wasatch Front available opportunities.

27 Wasatch Communities Urged to Get Ready for Trains
The Salt Lake Tribune JANUARY 17, 2002.  ...Officials with the growth-planning partnership Envision Utah highlighted the planning now under way for transit-oriented developments in four communities...

Tooele growth spurt is biggest
Deseret News January 12, 2002.  "The biggest growth was in a doughnut around the Wasatch Front," said Neil Ashdown, deputy director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget and chairman of the Utah Population Estimates Committee.

Population Growth Slows
The Salt Lake Tribune December 28, 2001.  ...Utah, the nation's fourth-fastest growing state in the 2000 census, has slipped to 11th in the latest population estimates to be released by the Census Bureau today.

New Calif. Water Law Seeks to Curb Runaway Sprawl
The Washington Post December 23, 2001.  Big Developments Must Show Ample Supply; Anxiety About Resources Is Rising in West

Dying malls are getting new life
Deseret News December 23, 2001.  Developers are turning them into homes and offices

Leavitt Pens Plan to Keep State on the Growth Path
The Salt Lake Tribune December 21, 2001.  Gov. Mike Leavitt has drafted a 1,000-day plan to keep the state on a growth track by cultivating high-tech businesses, improving education and maintaining a high quality of life.

Draper wants to protect lands
Deseret News December 14, 2001.  Even as a major subdivision creeps across the ridgeline, city leaders are hoping to protect what pristine open space remains.

Utah is top 'urban sprawler'
Deseret News November 13, 2001.  State is blasted by Sierra Club for building more roads

Looking to 2050: 5 million Utahns
Deseret News November 8, 2001.  Over the next 50 years, another 3 million people will call Utah home.

Sprawl, health woes linked
Deseret News November 2, 2001.  Health-conscious Utahns may want to consider another medical risk - urban sprawl.

Roads Beat Out Rail in New Wasatch Front Transport Policy
The Salt Lake Tribune November 2, 2001.  Buses and trains take a back seat to cars in the 30-year transportation plan approved Thursday by Wasatch Front elected leaders.

Quality Growth Act may escape change
Deseret News October 25, 2001.  David Allen had the draft bill under his arm Wednesday, but the document that would have made substantive changes to the state's Quality Growth Act won't see the light of day in the upcoming meeting of Utah lawmakers.

Quality Growth Agenda Won't Go to Lawmakers
The Salt Lake Tribune October 25, 2001.  The Utah Quality Growth Commission is shelving its legislative agenda for the upcoming year. Nevertheless, commission officials insist they are moving forward.

California Builders Must Show Water Is Sufficient
The New York Times (free registration required) October 11, 2001.  Illustrating just how precious water has become in parts of California, Gov. Gray Davis has signed into law a bill that forces builders to prove that there will be adequate water to supply their new developments.

Kennecott Set to Mine Golden Real Estate
The Salt Lake Tribune September 30, 2001.  When a Kennecott executive looks at the sprawling 100,000 acres his company owns along the western Salt Lake Valley and parts of neighboring Tooele County, his eyes brighten.

Build more roads? Maybe not
Deseret News September 23, 2001.  Mayors, legislators, governmental associations, transit professionals, advertisers, disabled groups, taxpayers - all gathered at the Salt Palace for three days to focus on finding solutions to the growing problem of congestion along the Wasatch Front.

Draper Vote Allows Development
The Salt Lake Tribune August 22, 2001.  The City Council amended its master plan Tuesday to allow a developer to build homes on 148 acres of now-open fields south of the city's historic center.

Near Vast Bodies of Water, the Land Still Thirsts
The New York Times (free registration required) August 12, 2001.  This year, with shortages appearing in places that have never doubted the future of their supply, many parts of the country have discovered water may indeed be a commodity more precious than oil.

Maryland Farmland a Focus in Suburban Sprawl Battle
The New York Times (free registration required) June 25, 2001.  "Let the battles begin," proclaimed Commissioner Donald I. Dell, drawing a line in the sand - or rather in a lush 145- acre Carroll County farm tract rezoned for housing - as he vowed to defend home rule against Gov. Parris N. Glendening's campaign to restrict suburban sprawl.

Rising rent in U.S. is putting big squeeze on family budget
Deseret News June 24, 2001.  Over the past two years, rents have been going up by more than 10 percent annually in tech-driven boom towns such as San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Boston and parts of Washington, D.C.

Tooele grows up
Deseret News June 24, 2001.  Valley sees a boom in residential and commercial construction

Draper's 'Landmark Green Space' May Vanish
The Salt Lake Tribune June 20, 2001.  On Thursday, the Draper Planning Commission will discuss rezoning the patch near 300 East at about 13500 South to allow up to 400 homes, each on a third-acre lot.

The new Morgan
Deseret News June 19, 2001.  The large homes rising along Trappers Loop below Snowbasin Ski Area are seen by many as a sign of things to come - the new Morgan County.

Riverton Farmers Fight for Way of Life
The Salt Lake Tribune June 18, 2001.  A freshly paved road just off of Interstate 15 leads motorists into Riverton, a small city where new subdivisions, shopping centers and construction workers dot the rolling landscape.

A New Emphasis At Envision Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune June 16, 2001.  Envision Utah completed its transformation from a regional agenda-setting group to a tool for cities and builders Friday when the growth-management group appointed a small-town mayor to replace an international diplomat as its leader.

State Dangles $900,000 to Encourage Two Companies to Expand in Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune June 16, 2001.  Utah is offering up to $900,000 in loans to entice two companies to add nearly 1,400 new jobs at new production facilities the businesses are planning.

Alpine is adding irrigation system
Deseret News June 15, 2001.  Alpine ... is completing a pressurized irrigation system built to conserve water and cut some water bills in half.

Leavitt urges high-tech growth
Deseret News June 15, 2001.  Utah must ugrade its brand image, define itself clearly

Leavitt: Perk Up Smart Growth
The Salt Lake Tribune June 14, 2001.  Utah's Quality Growth Commission must come up with incentives for developers and cities to embrace smart growth, and must form alliances with farmers to get those incentives through the Legislature, Gov. Mike Leavitt said Wednesday.

Speaker Claims Urban Sprawl Good, TRAX Bad
The Salt Lake Tribune June 11, 2001.  Wendell Cox has a message that anti-light-rail folks love: Urban sprawl is good.

Centerville Council Welcomes New 'Urban Village'; LDS Leaders Do No
The Salt Lake Tribune June 7, 2001.  The City Council is making room for an "urban village," but some residents, including area church leaders, want Centerville to hang up a "no vacancy" sign.

Development Near Park City Targets Middle-Class Market
The Salt Lake Tribune June 7, 2001.  Pushed to strike a balance between the suburbanization of the Snyderville Basin and its disappearing meadows, developers are building a pair of projects that could be the future of commercial/residential construction in Utah.

Western States Led in '90s Economic Growth
The Salt Lake Tribune June 5, 2001.  Utah and five other Western states outperformed the rest of the country in economic growth during much of the 1990s, while Hawaii and Alaska suffered the worst growth rates, the Commerce Department said Monday.

Group Advocates More Private Land
The Salt Lake Tribune May 24, 2001.  Utah's Quality Growth Commission wants to promote smarter growth by making more room for development on state and federal lands.

SUBURBAN SPRAWL: Life in Burbs To Blame for Obesity Trend?
The Salt Lake Tribune May 22, 2001.  The suburbs are making us fat.

Traffic Hell Not Relieved by Roadbuilding
Environment News Service May 7, 2001.  Los Angeles maintains its number one ranking as the city with the most hellish traffic congestion because its residents suffer from both major congestion and have relatively few ways to avoid it, according to a new study by the Surface Transportation Policy Project.

2001 Urban Mobility Study
Texas Transportation Institute May 7, 2001.  The 18 years of data presented in this report document the growth of congestion levels on the major roads systems of 68 U.S. urban areas.

Draper to Focus on Its Vision for the Future
The Salt Lake Tribune May 8, 2001.  Despite a lot of growth in Draper the past decade, the town's historic core still has open fields that reflect the community's rural origins.

Proposal for $12M airport expansion pits Brigham City against Ogden
The Salt Lake Tribune May 8, 2001.  Brigham City's $12 million plan to improve its airport to safely accommodate bigger and more jet aircraft is not flying right with Ogden, whose own airport 25 miles to the south is used at only about a third of its capacity.

Historic Buildings to Be Razed for Apartments
The Salt Lake Tribune May 3, 2001.  Salt Lake City's Historic Landmark Commission members admitted defeat Wednesday and gave a developer permission to tear down almost a block of historic but crumbling buildings.

West Jordan to Allow Mixed-Use Development
The Salt Lake Tribune May 3, 2001.  The mixed-use plan came out of a citizen's review group organized more than two years ago and charged with creating a concept for a walkable, transit-oriented "town center."

Mountain lions have lost half of habitat, study says
Deseret News April 27, 2001.  The mountain lion has lost half its habitat across the West, according to a National Wildlife Federation study.

The New-Look Suburbs: Denser or More Far-Flung
The New York Times (free registration required) April 17, 2001.  The rush to the open spaces of suburbia that transformed the United States for the last 50 years began to slow in the 1990's, an analysis of the latest census figures shows.

U.S. Population Has Biggest 10-Year Rise Ever
The New York Times (free registration required) April 3, 2001.  The nation's population increased by more people in the 1990's than any other 10-year period in United States history, surpassing the growth between 1950 and 1960 at the peak of the baby boom, the Census Bureau reported today.

Saratoga springtime
Deseret News April 1, 2001.  Historic resort area reborn as home address of splendor

Resort has a long history of springing back
Deseret News April 1, 2001.  It could have become a chicken farm or a prison

Utah cities find fast growth to be a mixed blessing
The Salt Lake Tribune March 24, 2001.  Cedar Hills posted 302% gain

Riverton Rejects Project; Developer Sues
The Salt Lake Tribune March 16, 2001.  Lawsuits are flying in Riverton as a Sandy-based developer seeks redress after the city rejected a proposal to build high-density housing and a commercial park.

S.L. annexes lumber company's east-bench property
Deseret News March 11, 2001.  Salt Lake City has grown by nearly 48 acres. But the owners of the annexed east-bench property are less than delighted.

BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS: Utah's Growing Pains
The Salt Lake Tribune March 11, 2001.  So long, Desert Solitaire. The lonely, rough-hewn Utah immortalized by the late author Edward Abbey's memoir expired during the 1990s.

As Minority Populations Increase in Intermountain West, Cities Study Growth
The Salt Lake Tribune March 10, 2001.  The Intermountain West's reputation as America's whitest region is changing fast, and its cities are splitting apart just as the rest of the country's did in the past century.

Economic Success Propelling Idaho From Rural to Urban -- for a Price
The Salt Lake Tribune March 10, 2001.  A decade ago the only thing gagging Boise residents was the smoke from their wood stoves. That was before a California recession and an Idaho computer-chip boom lined up thousands of vehicle registrants at the Ada and Canyon county courthouses.

Big Sky Still Plentiful in Montana, But Solitude Becomes Harder to Find
The Salt Lake Tribune March 9, 2001.  Paulette Neshiem and her husband came looking for solitude in the 1990s and built their dream home on the wind-swept bench of a former ranch.

Wyoming Mired in 'Old West' Economy
The Salt Lake Tribune March 8, 2001.  It's a tough balancing act for all of Wyoming, the only Intermountain state that missed out on the West's 1990s population bonanza and can accurately be labeled an "Old West" economy.

Annexation Thwarts Developers' Plans
The Salt Lake Tribune March 8, 2001.  City Council members ignored a lawsuit and the owners' protests and annexed part of a sloping hillside on the city's southeast bench Tuesday night.

Taxpayers' Money, Developers' Vision Help Denver Downtown Prosper
The Salt Lake Tribune March 7, 2001.  "We have sprawl in buckets," acknowledged Ben Kelly of the Downtown Denver Partnership, a nonprofit group dedicated to urban renewal.

Some Arizonans Who Chased the Sun Now Flee the Sprawl, Traffic
The Salt Lake Tribune March 5, 2001.  ... The Schwartzes' slice of suburbia seemed perfect: sunny, silent and separate. Then the traffic turned murderous as Arizona's population ballooned by 40 percent during the 1990s to 5.1 million, and the Phoenix metropolitan area climbed to 14th largest in the nation.

Arizona Tribe Enjoys Its Own Form of Economic Boom
The Salt Lake Tribune March 5, 2001.  Progress looks a little different here at the Cocopah Reservation on the banks of the Colorado.

SUN, FUN, & SPRAWL
The Salt Lake Tribune March 4, 2001.  The Intermountain West is the fastest-growing region by percentage in the nation.

Letter From the Editor
The Salt Lake Tribune March 4, 2001.  Census figures beginning to cascade on the nation show staggering growth in seven of the eight Intermountain West states, a region that was the darling of national business publications a decade ago as they swooned over its entrepreneurial potential.

Anti-SLAPP Measure Passes; Backers Say Free Speech Wins
The Salt Lake Tribune March 2, 2001.  HB112 is ... designed to protect residents who speak out against developers' projects from being sued.

Developers Blame S.L. for Project Delays
The Salt Lake Tribune March 1, 2001.  The way a trio of developers tells it, a decade's worth of cloak-and-dagger gambits may have cost them $12 million and a chance to build on the last of Salt Lake City's east bench view lots.

Urban Growth Examined
The Salt Lake Tribune February 25, 2001.  Utah's "smart growth" movement is steadily gaining momentum, but firmer financial footing for Envision Utah, the public-private partnership at the forefront of the movement, is required to keep the vision intact for the long term.

Maryland Smart Growth Plan a Model for Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune February 25, 2001.  This weekend's Stegner Center Symposium featured the nationally noted experience of Maryland in planning for metropolitan growth, an example with which Utah planners were already familiar.

Riverton Rejects Rezoning Plan; Developer to Sue
The Salt Lake Tribune February 8, 2001.  Enough talk, already. That was the attitude of Riverton City Council members Tuesday night when it came time to discuss rezoning some farmland for high-density housing. Which explains why they wasted little time rejecting the proposal by a 5-0 vote.

Farmers Say Sewer Fight Is About Lifestyle
The Salt Lake Tribune February 8, 2001.  A handful of farmers in west Weber County are resisting a planned West Haven sewer system that would extend sewer pipes into unincorporated county hamlets.

Envision Utah Unveils Planning Toolbox, Agency to present community development ideas adaptable to almost any setting
The Salt Lake Tribune January 22, 2001.  It might be in the best interest of northern Utah communities to take a lesson from the past while they plan for the future.

Scenic Cache Valley Is Looking at the Big Picture, Five-year program aims at developing a means of managing economic growth, maintaining a quality lifestyle
The Salt Lake Tribune January 22, 2001.  To deal with maintaining a balance between creating economic growth and maintaining a quality lifestyle, the Cache Chamber of Commerce is launching the "Cache Valley Initiative."

The More the World Adopts U.S. Consumer Culture, the More Resources Are Threatened
The Salt Lake Tribune January 14, 2001.  Today about 1.2 billion people -- most of them in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia -- live on a par with Americans, and the numbers are growing rapidly in other parts of the world.

Smart-Growth Advocates Trying to Sell Real Estate Agents on Housing Innovations
The Salt Lake Tribune January 7, 2001.  Selling smart growth to real estate agents can be almost as difficult as marketing high-density development to a township zoning board.

Some Experts Say Public Schools Are the Top Offender in Suburban Sprawl
The Salt Lake Tribune December 10, 2000.  ... some experts who track the nation's sprawling trends say schools are a top offender in pushing development farther afield.

Land-use ruckus in vain?
Deseret News December 5, 2000.  As more and more Utah land is developed, land-use issues have become a pressure point for public outcry and a headache for those in charge of planning.

Utah looking good to Californians
Deseret News November 21, 2000.  Hassles and expenses driving many here, fund manager says

Amid Resort Town Affluence, Families Struggle for Food, Warm Clothing
The Salt Lake Tribune November 19, 2000.  Sister Karen Stern thought last year's run on the food bank at St. Mary of the Assumption Church showed how tough it could be for the neediest residents of this well-to-do resort community.

Envision Utah to Open Its Smart-Growth 'Toolbox'
The Salt Lake Tribune October 20, 2000.  Utah cities finally will have access to Envision Utah's suggested "toolbox" for smart growth next week, and planners will conduct 11 workshops next month to help them put the ideas to work.

Jordanelle Developers Fighting Overhead Power Line
The Salt Lake Tribune October 3, 2000.  Dozens of developers of lakeside property around the Jordanelle Reservoir are fighting a proposal by Utah Power to erect what critics are calling "the mother of all power lines" east of Deer Valley.

Developers' Jordanelle Dream Taking Shape
The Salt Lake Tribune October 2, 2000.  ...The project is but the tip of a construction iceberg that developers envision will become a lake-side community in Wasatch County, surrounding one of Utah's most popular state parks... Notably absent in much of the debate over development around the reservoir has been much discussion of environmental or aesthetic concerns, though proponents say that is because of the large percentage of land that will be dedicated to open space.

TRAX lauded, sprawl lamented
Deseret News September 14, 2000.  Sierra Club lists its examples of good, bad development

Mapleton is mapping greenery
Deseret News September 1, 2000.  The brainchild of landscape architects Sumner Swaner of Salt Lake City and Randall Arendt of Rhode Island, green-space planning creates a map of lands residents would like to preserve in their community but also has to reckon with private property rights.

Man, nature abet wildfires
Deseret News August 27, 2000.  Smokey Bear effort is linked to tree density

Ads set to target growth in Utah
Deseret News August 26, 2000.  Envision group to inform public of transit options

Wasatch Back Sees High Fire Risk
The Salt Lake Tribune July 31, 2000.  The driest summer in a decade has officials along the Wasatch Back worried about scores of rural subdivisions vulnerable to wildfire.

Rural Towns Top Utah's Growth Rate
The Salt Lake Tribune July 9, 2000.  Without exception, Utah's fastest growing cities have one trait in common: they are rural.

Wildfire Peril Real, Growing
The Salt Lake Tribune July 9, 2000.  "People here don't like to be compared to California, but we're going through the same evolution. The trouble is, we're 30 years behind in terms of where we live and how we live. And it's going to catch up with us at some point."

Sleepy Herriman Jolted Awake By Some Severe Growing Pains
The Salt Lake Tribune June 19, 2000.  A year after incorporating, this sleepy little horse town is getting an abrupt wake-up call.

GLOBAL WARMING: Report Offers A Hot Forecast Of U.S. Future
The Salt Lake Tribune June 9, 2000.  Alpine meadows will disappear, along with many coastal wetlands and barrier islands.

Construction Near Woodlands Fuels Fire Risk
The Salt Lake Tribune June 4, 2000.  ...development nestled so close to the lush ponderosa pines and sagebrush on the eastern flank of the Cascade Mountains has a potential dark side -- a catastrophic wildfire.

Utah Homes Built Near Wilderness Areas May Share Los Alamos Fate
The Salt Lake Tribune May 31, 2000.  With homes built right up to the edge of forest land, parts of Utah may be prone to the same fate suffered by Los Alamos, N.M., earlier this month, when fire destroyed hundreds of homes.

Utah is called ripe for wildfire
Deseret News May 30, 2000.  Utah is primed for the same type of wildlife that devastated parts of Los Alamos, N.M., this month, warn state fire experts. The cause is the same: More and more homes are built in "wild land-urban interface areas." These are places that historically were natural, and therefore prone to fire, but now host subdivisions or isolated homes.

Thirsty Summit County Will Scrap Pipeline, Sink Wells Instead
The Salt Lake Tribune May 10, 2000.  Water developers will look underground instead of downriver as they seek to avert a looming water-shortage crisis in the Park City area.

Water Costs to Soar In Thirsty S.L. Area
The Salt Lake Tribune April 29, 2000.  Eight years from now, new growth in Salt Lake County will be served with water saved through conservation.

Despite Better Awareness, Environment Less Healthy
The Salt Lake Tribune April 17, 2000.  Despite greater environmental awareness, growing demand for resources is threatening the world's environmental health more than ever, a United Nations-sponsored report said Sunday.

VANISHING BREED? Ogden Valley Braces for the Boom
The Salt Lake Tribune April 17, 2000.  As Tracy Woolsey combs the sloping hillside in his John Deere tractor, seagulls converge in his wake to scavenge the freshly tilled earth. The birds aren't the only ones waiting to pounce on this prime property that sits in the shadow of Snowbasin Ski Area, 10 miles east of Ogden.

Sierra Club report rips urban sprawl
Deseret News April 14, 2000.  But Utah group says trying to prevent it causes more problems

Alpine residents question need for continued growth
Deseret News April 12, 2000.  Envision officials say expansion brings benefits

New Haven for Rich a Step Closer to Reality in Summit County
The Salt Lake Tribune April 8, 2000.  Developers of a 6,500-acre resort community with multiple golf courses have moved one step closer to starting the project.

Envision ponders what to do about next Utah million
Deseret News April 7, 2000.  Group's strategy aims to enhance air, water quality

Don't Even Think About Towers Here
Mountain Times Weekly April 6, 2000.  Telecommunication companies, with the Olympics in mind, have already been besieging the city with multiple applications to build various towers and relay stations throughout the area.

Many in Charleston want sewer project flushed
Deseret News April 2, 2000.  Not even the chance of benefitting from some of the Olympics-related spending is enough to persuade some residents they should install a sewer system.

Town's Voters: No Sewers, No Grants
The Salt Lake Tribune March 22, 2000.  Voters on Tuesday turned out to defeat a plan for a controversial new sewer system that would have been paid for largely by Olympic largess.

Suburbanites discovering, transforming the Wild West
Deseret News March 21, 2000.  Freed by Net, they are destroying the things they sought

Utah growth panel plunges ahead
Deseret News March 19, 2000.  Diversity of voices getting involved, Provo mayor says

Residents fight growth in Ogden Valley
Deseret News March 13, 2000.  But developers say the Ski Lake area needs their project

Utahns Support Sales Tax Hike For Improved Transit, Says Poll
The Salt Lake Tribune March 11, 2000.  Most northern Utah residents would pay higher sales taxes to improve transit service and build commuter rail, according to a poll commissioned by Envision Utah.

Cities cautioned on growth: bigger isn't always better
Deseret News March 9, 2000.  Bigger isn't always better. That's Kristine Thompson's message to each municipal governing body along the Wasatch Front.

Developers Can Still Sue Residents for Speaking Out
The Salt Lake Tribune March 4, 2000.  Residents who speak out in a public meeting against a development or zoning change still can get SLAPP-ed with a suit.

Legacy Highway Driving Up Land Prices
The Salt Lake Tribune February 27, 2000.  Cash will flow right along with traffic on the proposed Legacy Highway, driving land prices and development plans to new heights in western Davis County.

Global warming may be speeding up
Deseret News February 23, 2000.  A recent series of record world temperatures may indicate a speedup of global warming, researchers say.

Global Warming Inevitable
The Salt Lake Tribune February 21, 2000.  The western United States will probably be significantly harmed by changes in water resources as a result of flooding and reductions in freshwater supplies, water study coordinator Gleick said.

Resort Area Growing Itself to Death
The Salt Lake Tribune February 15, 2000.  The goose that laid the golden egg is endangered, according to a California company hired to assess the future of the fast-growing Snyderville Basin and its tourist economy.

Protection Funding Goes Rural
The Salt Lake Tribune February 9, 2000.  In its first year, the Utah Quality Growth Commission allocated most of its preservation funds to rural lands instead of those bucking against urban sprawl, though members expect more applications from urban cities and counties this year.

Open Space, Mass Transit Vie for Pocket Change
The Salt Lake Tribune February 2, 2000.  Two of the bedrock principles of smart urban growth are at odds over a proposal to raise sales taxes to buy parks and open space, Davis County officials say.

Panel Seeks Alignment for Shoreline Trail
The Salt Lake Tribune January 27, 2000.  Members of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Committee this week urged county commissioners to choose an alignment for the trail from the mouth of Parleys Canyon to Sandy.

Sales Tax For Parks Proposed
The Salt Lake Tribune January 27, 2000.  Utah's land lovers want the state to back up its open-space rhetoric with $40 million a year.

Resort Plan Thrills City, Ruffles Feathers at Bird Refuge
The Salt Lake Tribune January 26, 2000.  City leaders are ecstatic about a proposed "destination" development that will lace outdoor retailers, restaurants, hotels and a convention center together with ponds and walkways.

Utahns open up wallets to preserve open space
Deseret News January 22, 2000.  Generous support has helped protect areas around the state

Envision Utah Wants a Hand From Utahns
The Salt Lake Tribune January 6, 2000.  Envision Utah is asking Wasatch Front residents to take the fight against urban sprawl into their own neighborhoods.

Envision Utah pushing public awareness
Deseret News January 5, 2000.  Campaign to tell Utahns about growth strategy

Are Utahns fed up with growth?
Deseret News December 26, 1999.  61% in poll believe problems have gotten worse

Groups Seek A Vote on 'Green Tax'
The Salt Lake Tribune December 23, 1999.  Raising greenbacks for green space would be the fruit of a proposal headed to the 2000 Legislature.

Selling Development Rights May Save Some Open Spaces
The Salt Lake Tribune December 23, 1999.  Utah farmer Charlie Black sees the best of two worlds in conservation easements.

Creek Choking on Success
The Salt Lake Tribune December 19, 1999.  The best-educated and most well-to-do community in Utah proudly bears an environmental "green stripe," too. But it may not be deserved.

To Widen Route 36, Cropland Must Go
The Salt Lake Tribune November 25, 1999.  For years, Tooele County residents have been prodding the state to widen state Route 36, the main road linking Tooele and Interstate 80. But there is a problem: Cropland abounds on both sides of the road, and farmers -- to stave off condemnation of their land -- have placed hundreds of acres under what is known as "agricultural protection."

Quenching Utah's Thirst: Who Pays?
The Salt Lake Tribune November 25, 1999.  Plans to Bear River water to Salt Lake and to build a highway through wetlands adjacent to the Great Salt Lake move ahead.

Thirst for Growth Will Draw Waterline to Snyderville Area
The Salt Lake Tribune November 23, 1999.  For a decade, Park City and the surrounding Snyderville Basin have been long on growth and short on water. Now, an impending diversion project promises to slake the ever-increasing thirst of the area.

'Smart Growth' Planners Think Utah's Pretty Smart
The Salt Lake Tribune November 22, 1999.  Utah has gained a national reputation as a leader in smart growth -- even without enacting a single law to rein in urban sprawl.

The "Park City Effect" Ripples Outward
Mountain Times Weekly November 18, 1999.  Heber and Kamas discover that living so close to Park City development fire might get them burned.

Senator May Revive Bill to Curb Lawsuits
The Salt Lake Tribune November 19, 1999.  Instead of "SLAPPs" from developers, community activists may get a helping hand from lawmakers.

Bringing the Planning to the People
The Salt Lake Tribune November 19, 1999.  It's time to take the campaign against urban sprawl into the neighborhoods, planners and developers at a national smart-growth conference said Thursday.

State Sets Lottery For Deer Hunting
The Salt Lake Tribune November 18, 1999.  Utah's 97,000 deer hunters must participate in a lottery if they want to hunt next fall.

Growth Group Asks for Extension
The Salt Lake Tribune November 18, 1999.  Utah's Quality Growth Commission wants to take another year before recommending to legislators a range of new state laws to help curtail urban sprawl and promote livable communities.

Losing Our Time To Traffic
The Salt Lake Tribune November 17, 1999.  Drivers in the nation's most congested urban areas spend the equivalent of 40 hours a year stuck in traffic, a problem that is rapidly getting worse as road construction and other solutions fail to keep pace with demand, a national study released Tuesday found.

A new vision of Utah land use
Deseret News November 16, 1999 Envision Utah released its first comprehensive report of transportation and land-use recommendations Monday, advocating regionwide transit, mixed-use, walkable development and the preservation of open lands through economic incentive..  

Envision Utah Leaves It to Locals
The Salt Lake Tribune November 16, 1999.  Don't look for Envision Utah's long-awaited growth-management strategy to guarantee an end to urban sprawl.

SLAPP in the Face
Salt Lake City Weekly November 11, 1999.  Citizen activism for Utahns can be a dangerous, and costly, proposition.

Olympus Cove Resists Developer
The Salt Lake Tribune November 10, 1999.  Another developer seeking to build homes in the uppermost reaches of Olympus Cove is running into the same problem as his predecessors. Namely, the neighbors below.

SLAPP happy: Do multimillion-dollar lawsuits aim to silence public dissent?
Deseret News November 7, 1999.  John Drabik opened his mouth about a developer's plans in Draper and got slapped. Slapped, as with a lawsuit. And SLAPP-ed with what legal experts are calling a chilling threat to American democracy - lawsuits aimed at people exercising their right to petition local government.

Turf Wars
Mountain Times Weekly November 4, 1999.   While vandals bash barriers in Bonanza Flats, property owners wonder why.

Rising Number of Complaints Makes Farmers, Subdivisions Uneasy Neighbors
The Salt Lake Tribune November 4, 1999.  Urban sprawl is increasing tensions between farmers and the people who live in the subdivisions sprouting up around them, agricultural industry representatives in Salt Lake City for a convention said this week.

Group's Plan Preserves 32,000 Acres of Ranches, Farms
The Salt Lake Tribune October 8, 1999.  The open-space advocacy group Utah Open Lands announced Thursday a $3.5 million initiative to preserve 31,897 acres of ranch and farm land.

The Canyons Quietly Go Big
Mountain Times Weekly October 7, 1999.  One of the largest projects in Park City history is flying high and meeting little resistance.

Sprawl Can Be Battled From Within
The Salt Lake Tribune October 8, 1999.  Factories and warehouses over here, homes and apartments over there, strip malls and supermarkets in between. It's this kind of segregated development -- often mandated by city zoning laws -- that helps lead to suburban sprawl.

Utah gets failing grade on urban sprawl
Deseret News October 5, 1999.  State leaders aren't doing nearly enough to fight the growth of urban sprawl, according to a national Sierra Club report released Monday.

SPRAWL REPORT NOTES GAINS AGAINST GROWTH
Environment News Service October 5, 1999.  Suburban sprawl continues to creep across the U.S., but many states are taking steps to control growth and reduce the damages of poor growth planning, a new study from the Sierra Club shows.

UTAH FLUNKS: States Cheered For Taking Stand Against Sprawl
The Salt Lake Tribune October 4, 1999.  The sprawling development that has gobbled up farmland and created traffic jams across America can be tamed -- and some states increasingly are taking strong action to do just that, a new Sierra Club report out today says. Utah isn't one of them.

New tax for sake of open spaces?
Deseret News September 18, 1999.  Local governments are still pushing for a statewide, voter-approved sales-tax increase to preserve Utah's open spaces despite the defeat of a similar proposal during the 1999 legislative session.

At Soldier Hollow, ski but don't stay
Deseret News August 9, 1999.  This folksy town is about to be transformed into a place where the world skis, but it's doing its best not to resemble Park City. There is pre-Olympic excitement for the Nordic competitions to be held at Soldier Hollow in Wasatch Mountain State Park.

New Poll Shows Public Wants Government To Do More To Protect Parks, Open Spaces
A public opinion poll released July 20, 1999 shows broad concern among voters that government efforts to protect land from development are inadequate and those voters are demanding that state and local governments increase their focus on protecting parks and open spaces. .  

Principles for Environmental Management in the West
Policy resolution of the Western Governors Association, June 15, 1999.  Enlibra has been revised and adopted (June 1999) by the Western Governors' Association; sponsored by Gov. Mike Leavitt. We should know what's in the Resolution and hold all of our (State) leaders to follow the principles therein.

Utah loving, losing riparian areas
Deseret News February 12, 1998.  

FEELING CROWDED? Coalition Tackles Wasatch Front Sprawl
The Salt Lake Tribune January 14, 1997.