Smart growth and development news for the Salt Lake City region
The days of inexpensive rent and housing may be forever gone from Utah’s capital, and even working through a backlog of policies may never bring…
When CW Urban announced it would construct a new residential building across from Pioneer Park, one thing in particular stood out. It wasn’t necessarily its…
There’s no slowing the incoming residential tide in the Downtown area of Salt Lake City, with another project proposed on a small site of 400…
If you haven’t meandered through the new apartments between 400 West and the FrontRunner tracks recently, it may surprise you to visit the residential pocket…
Competition between the west side and Downtown for a full-time, year-round public market heated up last week. The Utah State Fairpark announced that they will…
With housing affordability and supply at low-enough levels to merit a “crisis,” policy-makers in many American cities are opening their zoning code to accessory dwelling…
A third-acre property in Salt Lake City’s Liberty Wells neighborhood has received a zoning change more typical for urban areas after the City Council approved…
Perennially starved of tax revenue by the Utah Legislature, Utah Transit Authority (UTA) has had few options to generate income beyond the fare box. UTA’s…
Salt Lakers want their streets designed for people, not cars, and this is not an opinion piece. That’s the takeaway from a survey of about…
Salt Lake City, prepare for a taller and broader Downtown. The City Council appears to include enough members ready to rethink traditional zoning practices that…
The Salt Lake City Planning Division is attempting to prepare downtown Sugar House for a future with more sidewalk vitality and less space for cars.…
Sugar House has effectively become Salt Lake City’s second downtown, and the quickly urbanizing neighborhood could soon get newly updated design standards to match. While…
