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...
With comprehensive Salt Lake City zoning reform almost completed, one of its most effective advocates at City Hall won’t be around to usher it across the finish line. Darin Mano, City Council Member from District 5, has seen his last city council meeting as an elected...
After clearing out the queue of other changes to zoning districts throughout the city, planners have teed up the next housing topic for discussion and debate: single-family zoning reform. The city recently unveiled its proposal to change the rules for its three...
A week ago, I discovered that—on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays—Park City Transit extends its Route 9 Purple from downtown Park City over Empire Pass to serve Bonanza Flat Trailhead and Bloods Lake Trailhead. Since I had been hungry to get in some hiking and leaf...
This story has been made free for all readers. If you would like to help support BSL's independent journalism, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. The bill that took away Salt Lake City’s ability to control many of its own streets stemmed from shadowy...
ROY—The Utah Transportation Commission showed little hesitation before approving roughly $3 billion in roadway expansion projects on Friday, posing virtually no questions to Utah Department of Transportation staff and limiting their comments to effusive praise for the...
It’s been over six years since Salt Lake City voters approved the Funding our Future street reconstruction bond and the city council approved a sales tax bump, and city officials are approaching the end of their list of roads to improve — just in the nick of...
In November 2023, a housing policy legislative audit prepared for the Utah State Legislature delivered a sobering reality: Utah must build nearly 28,000 homes annually just to meet current demand. Worse yet, the audit warned that if the state’s housing policy...
Fresh off a successful kickoff event, Building Salt Lake is preparing to host an informational session and tour that's focused on a bygone and misunderstood type of housing known as Missing Middle Housing. Our Missing Middle Housing Discussion and Tour will focus on...
Days after a neighborhood Facebook group reposted a real estate listing for 411 and 419 East 100 South as “Tear down dwellings that are necessary to build future apartment or condo buildings,” the consensus among preservationists - including the keepers of records at...
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 it back. The balance between urban infill, historic preservation and housing affordability may be out of whack, and recent...
Salt Lake City’s new off-street parking ordinance - how much parking developers are required to build given their land use and location - will be getting its final look by the city council later this spring and summer. The reform may have significant...