Category: Smart Growth

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…

Salt Lake City could have landed it: One of the elusive technology company headquarters that are congregating in the sprawl of Lehi’s Silicon Slopes. All…

Pollution hung thick in Salt Lake County’s air this week, as the region experiences its worst inversion of the season. So we thought we’d look…

Utah’s homelessness and housing crises are putting pressure on Salt Lake City to move forward with a policy that would expand the locations where developers…

Salt Lake City has already shown that increased convenience from an expanded bus network on three east-west routes can increase ridership. Now it wants to…

Salt Lake City on Tuesday released the results of a study that largely focused on the possible traffic impacts of moving the I-15 ramp at…

The developers who specialize in building net-zero communities that also encourage walkability are eyeing their next project on a small lot near the entryway to…

Editors’ note: Candidates are listed in the order which they returned our survey. Two candidates, Richard Goldberger and Rainer Huck, didn’t respond to the survey.…

After expansion under the Obama Administration and previous regimes at UTA, new passenger rail projects along the Wasatch Front seem all but dead. A UTA…

To start off this month, the deputy director of Utah’s Department of Transportation said the state needs to spend billions widening interstates and building more…

Jordan Landing, the large sprawling mixed-used development in West Jordan, has dozens of acres of surface parking.  Parking, that even during the busy holiday season is…

Building Salt Lake has regularly argued the need for more complete streets and their impact on walkability, vibrancy and traffic congestion.  But with the Funding our Future campaign…