After months of discussions, debates and neighborhood infighting, the Salt Lake City Council has begun moving toward a long-awaited update to its single-family zoning code after years of growing unaffordability and families fleeing the city for the suburbs. The...
From left: Dr. Brenda Bowen, Ben Abbott, Joel Ferry and Ty McCutcheon during the ULI Utah 2026 Trends conference in Salt Lake City. Photo courtesy of Kelli Freshman Two large problems facing Utah are rising costs for housing and the drying Great Salt Lake. While the...
The price that developers pay to connect to city utilities will nearly triple over the next two years in Salt Lake City. The City Council, following the recommendations of third-party studies voted this week to raise the costs to hook up to the city’s potable water...
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission on Wednesday forwarded a positive recommendation to the City Council on Expanding Housing Options, the city's most significant rewrite of its single-family zoning rules in more than 30 years. It passed unanimously. The proposal,...
Zoning reform is hot once again at Salt Lake City Hall. On Tuesday, members of the Salt Lake City Council heard a briefing on the Expanding Housing Options effort, which would allow for smaller homes to be built on smaller lots throughout the city’s single-family...
Utah state lawmakers seem poised to propose a number of housing bills in the hopes of combating the Beehive State’s ongoing housing crisis. Among the potential bills are updates to the local zoning parameters, changes to deeply affordable housing funding and...
The Utah Legislature seems on track to take another swing at statewide zoning policy changes to enable the building of smaller single-family homes. Steve Waldrip, senior advisor for housing strategy to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, confirmed that Utah officials are hoping to...
It’s been over two years since Salt Lake City’s Affordable Housing Incentives (AHI) program took effect, and city council members got a feel for the sort of impact the program has had on the city. On Tuesday, the council heard its first update on the AHI program...
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Salt Lake City’s West-East Connections Study (WE Connect) has reached a critical juncture. On the evening of June 22, a combined meeting of WE Connect’s Citizens Advisory Board, comprised of residents of Salt Lake City’s west side, and WE Connect’s Technical Advisory...
Salt Lakers will likely be getting a bigger property tax bill starting in the coming months. While city leaders have floated this possibility in recent years, the Salt Lake City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the city’s budget for Fiscal Year 2027,...
As part of an ongoing effort to overhaul the city’s single-family zoning code, members of the Salt Lake City Planning Commission got to share their thoughts while shaping the proposal Wednesday. Commissioners were given a number of issues to tinker with — maximum...
It’s a tough time for recent college graduates on the hunt for a job, and a recent study ranked Salt Lake City dead last for job prospects. A new study from ADP Research, the research wing of the human resources management and software company, found that Salt Lake...