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 set up a skyline that tapers out the farther buildings are from the Downtown core. One application for...
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. Its recent proposal to the city council for updating the business district’s design standards is getting some flak -...
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 many new buildings in recent years have undergone design scrutiny, the City Council will...
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 the developer needed was permission to build high enough to suit the company’s desires, and a tech company would...
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 at what causes smog in the region. Vehicles — including cars, trucks, planes and trains — are the largest single contributor...
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 and the state could build “micro-apartments” despite lingering questions over geographical inequity. The...
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 know if residents want free rides to go with it. Residents have a few more days to speak their minds about...
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 900 South and ignored the impacts on the city and neighborhoods negatively affected by the ramp. Rather than study the potential...
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 Salt Lake’s 9th & 9th neighborhood. The Living Zenith at Lake Street would site 12 townhomes on a small...
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. Most candidates running to become Salt Lake City’s next mayor aren’t likely to support policies that...
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 Board claiming it has no money for capital projects, slim inclusion in regional plans, a reoriented redevelopment...
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 highway capacity or face a future of gridlock. Not doing so, said Jason Davis, would cause the...