Regional Transit System Plan

Grand Achievement in Regional Planning

The Utah Transit Authority has created a pleasant, accessible transportation alternative for commuters with its current light rail system and has developed a transportation plan that will improve the efficiency of our future region-wide transportation system. Residents of Salt Lake County have already experienced the tremendous benefits of light rail. In coming years, residents of the Greater Wasatch Area will experience benefits that will come as a result of UTA’s transportation plan that includes commuter rail, light rail and increased bus service. By planning ahead, UTA is creating more regional public transportation choices that will help maintain quality of life for us, our children and grandchildren.

Daybreak

Grand Achievement in Design and Planning

In late 1999, Kennecott Development Company approached South Jordan with the idea of developing approximately 4,200 acres of vacant agricultural land into a major mixed-use residential, retail and office development. South Jordan’s goal in planning and zoning was to benefit the community by creating an environmentally sensitive community for some 40,000 people that incorporates mixed-use and transit-oriented development, walkable communities, open space preservation, housing options for residents, traditional neighborhood building and mechanisms to conserve water resources. It is the largest development of its kind to be proposed in Utah.

Midvale City Transit Oriented Development Code

Award for Excellence in Design and Planning

Midvale City developed a transit oriented development code to allow for and encourage high-quality, transit-oriented development, which is characterized by a mix of commercial, office and residential uses. It gives detail for guidance and allows flexibility to allow for the revitalization of areas proximate to the transit stations while providing settings for social interaction and active community life.

Union Square

Award for Excellence in Design and Planning

Union Square is an example of a mixed-use community located on an urban infill site that was once a blighted location. The project is situated in a section of historic 25th Street in Ogden, Utah. This area remains one of the city’s vibrant restaurant and entertainment districts and is becoming the city’s primary retail location. Union Square development will consist of fourteen street level retail bays with fourteen residential townhomes above. Behind the 14 units will be constructed forty-six courtyard townhomes that vary in size.

Sandy City Water Conservation Program

Award for Excellence in Implementation

Sandy City developed a multi-faceted program to promote, educate, encourage, and financially/legally encourage residents to conserve water. The program helps the city audit its own water consumption, correct inefficient and problematic areas and reduce water use. The program includes a demonstration park with “xeriscaping” techniques, strategies for water-conserving streetscapes and parks, public education and outreach, water conservation rates and ordinances governing watering time. The program also has a training component to help use these conservation techniques. Through the education program, one of Sandy City’s major malls has reduced water consumption by 27%.

Ogden Intermodal Transportation Hub

Award for Excellence in Implementation

Ogden City created a transportation center that not only serves transportation needs of the citizens of Ogden City, Weber County and northern Utah, but also acts as a catalyst for change in Ogden’s downtown area. The new Intermodal Transportation Hub spurs mixed-use and housing developments and enhances existing commercial, office and entertainment oriented business in the downtown area – especially on Historic 25th street.

Argyle Court Development

Award for Excellence in Implementation

Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services worked with many community partners to create a housing project at Argyle Court and Rendon Court. This project focused on rebuilding a blighted neighborhood, creating two mixed-income developments (24 new homes) that are affordable, located near retail and commercial services, and provide for various social, economic and family needs in a pedestrian-friendly environment.

Demonstration Gardens and Water Conservation Plan

Award for Excellence in Regional Planning

Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District developed a progressive and comprehensive water conservation plan that will reduce per capita water use by 25% by 2050. Programs in the plan included a water check program, model landscape ordinances, ultra-low-flush toilet replacements, public education and the Water Conservation Demonstration Gardens. This important plan will ensure that Utah will have needed water resources for future generations.

Nebo Community Vision

Award for Excellence in Regional Planning

Swaner Design worked with the Mountainland Association of Governments, the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget, AGRC and ten communities and the unincorporated area in South Utah County to develop a cooperative vision for accommodating the high growth levels projected for the area. This project was an opportunity for citizens to talk and leaders to listen and steer the course of the future. The ultimate goals were to provide each community with more choices, to plan implementation strategies for each jurisdiction, and provide assistance to city and town governments in updating their plans and ordinances as they prepare for the future.

Redstone Parkside

Award of Merit for Design and Planning

This design workshop for a Park City development highlighted quality growth principles such as aggregating density, mixing uses vertically to create live/work/play environments, focusing on pedestrian-friendly streets, and using transfer-of-development rights to transfer density from sensitive lands that deserve protection to dense, walkable locations that can serve as town centers for the region.

West Valley City’s Implementation of General Plan Strategies

Award of Merit for Design and Planning

Implementation of the city’s Vision 2020 effort is bringing progress in air quality, housing choices, mixed-use development, critical lands, and transportation choices.

Marriott/Slaterville’s General Plan Updates

Award of Merit for Design and Planning

This general plan update includes open space and trails planning initiatives.

Clinton City’s Performance Zone

Award of Merit for Implementation

The city’s performance zone encourages quality growth strategies.

Coral Canyon

Award of Merit for Implementation

SunCor Development’s “Coral Canyon” in Hurricane includes a variety of lot sizes and housing choices, preserves open space, integrates hiking and bicycling trails, and promotes water conservation.

The Ranches

Award of Merit for Implementation

This development in Eagle Mountain has implemented many quality growth principles.

Utah Transit Authority’s “Planning Communities with Transit”

Award of Merit for Regional Planning

This resource manual helps cities to understand the benefits of transit as they plan for their future development.