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April 30, 2012 – Envision Utah 2012 Corporate Friends Breakfast
SAVE THE DATE!
Monday, April 30, 2012
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
Keynote Speaker

Please join us to hear from the former Presidential Candidate, Utah Governor, and Envision Utah Chairman.

Little America Hotel Ballroom
500 South Main

e-Invitations forthcoming - to register in advance for this event: kwidner@envisionutah.org or call
Kristine at 801-303-1454

Single ticket: $50 Table of ten: $500


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April 25, 2012 – Envision Utah's Spring 2012 Newsletter is now available on-line.
In this Envision Utah newsletter, we'll provide updates on projects with national significance, our 2012 Corporate Friends Breakfast with former Ambassador Jon Huntsman, and more!

Please contact us if you would like more information on a specific project or are interested in a presentation from one of our staff.

Thank you for your support of quality growth practices in Utah.

Download Newsletter Here (PDF 4.0 MB)
April 13, 2012 – New Clearinghouse for Scenario Planning Tools to Help Citizens Envision the Future
Market Watch - The Wall Street Journal
Press Release
April 13, 2012

 LOS ANGELES, April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy announces report and website for planners

A team convened by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Sonoran Institute has taken the first steps toward making scenario planning tools openly accessible on a common platform, and open-source as well, to take advantage of ideas and innovations in technology going forward.

Read Press Release Here (Web)
March 30, 2012 – Planning for growth on the Wasatch Front
The Deseret News
Editorial Staff
March 30, 2012

 The population of the Wasatch Front is expected to grow by nearly 1.5 million people in the next 30 years.

It is an astonishing prospect.

In three decades, Salt Lake City will be a metropolitan area more populous than current Denver, St. Louis, Portland, Kansas City or Cleveland.

In other words, a truly big city, densely urban, with all of the attending challenges.

So, how will the residents of this future metropolis assess their quality of life? Will they be happy with their residential circumstances? What about their recreational opportunities? Will a daily commute be a non issue or a nightmare?

Read Editorial Here (Web)
March 27, 2012 – Utah officials plan how to handle 67% growth by 2040
The Salt Lake Tribue

March 27, 2012

 The Wasatch Front is expected to grow by 1.4 million people over the next 30 years. So hundreds of officials from governments, businesses, universities and nonprofit groups gathered Tuesday to further implement plans on how to handle that growth while maintaining a high quality of life.

They heard updates on new regional housing and transportation plans and observed a demonstration of software that will allow cities to share modeling for the future, hold discussions on how to change zoning laws to allow new kinds of higher density development and exchange updates on expected demographic changes.

"It’s regional collaboration, but local implementation," said Syracuse Mayor Jamie Nagle as she welcomed about 350 people to the Wasatch Choice for 2040 Consortium at the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center.

Read Article Here (Web)
January 9, 2012 – Vision Dixie: Northern Utah effort served as blueprint
The Spectrum

January 9, 2012

ST. GEORGE - Serving as an eventual outline for Washington County's Vision Dixie growth strategy, a long-term plan created more than a decade ago by Envision Utah continues to shape communities in Northern Utah.

Introduced in 1999, the Quality Growth Strategy was formed amid growing concerns about population growth, said Alan Matheson, the former executive director of Envision Utah, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining communities. Matheson, who began working with Envision Utah in 2004, left the organization in 2011 to serve as the senior environmental adviser to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert.

Read Article Here (Web)
January 7, 2012 – Discussions included many thoughts, issues
The Spectrum

January 7, 2012

The community came together starting in 2006 to create the 10 principles of Vision Dixie that would provide a framework for planning the future of Washington County.

Sponsored by the Washington County Commission, residents addressed the most fundamental needs and concerns of the community, such as air and water, land and growth.

To determine these principles, community members, elected officials, technical experts and neutral facilitators brought every idea, pro and con, to a common table.

Read Article Here (Web)
January 2012 – Utah Envisions a Sustainable Future — The public-private partnership, Envision Utah, is a national model for cities grappling with how to ease congestion, stop sprawl and clean the air
Governing

January, 2012

Here are some interesting facts about cities: They cover 2 percent of the Earth’s surface, accommodate half the world’s population, eat up 75 percent of the world’s energy and give off 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. And they are growing -- just as traffic congestion, sprawl, air pollution and so many other urban ills are growing.

Back in the mid-1990s, officials in Utah were handed some rather interesting facts of their own. The Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget projected that the population of the Greater Wasatch Area, a narrow 120-mile strip where about 80 percent of Utah’s population lives, would triple to 5 million by 2050. If left unchecked, the consequences of this growth meant that most of the open space in Salt Lake City would be consumed, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) would double and the state’s greenhouse gas emissions would grow by more than 70 percent.

Read Article Here (Web)


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Envision Utah Newsletter
Spring 2012

In this issue, we'll provide updates on projects with national significance, our 2012 Corporate Friends Breakfast with former Ambassador Jon Huntsman, and more!

The 3% Strategy

What would happen if we allow one-third of our future homes, jobs, and stores to go on three percent of our region's developable land, linked by a world class transportation system?

The 3% Strategy approach responds to market trends and creates significant regional benefits, while leaving existing residential neighborhoods largely unchanged.

Brookings Mountain West — Mountain Monitor (June 2011)

Mark Muro, Kenan Fikri, and Jonathan Rothwell
June 2011 (Updated on June 24, 2011)

Brookings Mountain West, in collaboration with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, issues a variety of print and electronic publications that track and evaluate economic indicators in the Intermountain West. The states in this region include Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.

 


Salt Lake City e2 Program

Envision Utah is proud to be a partner and participant in the 2011 Clear the Air Challenge.

       For more information please click the link below
Clear the Air Challenge

tahns have prospered under the vision of the pioneers who first entered this state. But by 2050, our population will double to five million, two-thirds of whom will be our own children and grandchildren. As one of America’s fastest growing states, we cannot take our high quality of life for granted. How we grow will affect how we and our children will live. Will we just sit back and see where growth takes us, or will we be visionary, like those who came before us, and actively secure our future?

Quality Growth Summary