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Housing:
- Average size of single-family lot decreases from 0.32 acre today to 0.27 acre in 2020
- Homes are closer together than in all other scenarios; most new homes are single-family homes or townhouses, but on smaller lots than A or B
- Wider variety of housing options available than all other scenarios
- Most new housing would be located in existing urban areas and in villages and towns situated along major roads and rail lines
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Transportation:
- Greatly expanded transit system augments road network to provide more transportation options
- 32% of population has easy access to rail transit
- Convenient transit access to most Salt Lake area communities, Ogden, and BYU
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Land:
- Land consumption is slower than all other scenarios
- Urbanized area grows by 20% from 1998 to 2020
- Large portion of new development is placed within existing urban areas and clustered around transit routes, leaving more land for open space and farmland than any other scenario
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Cost:
- Diversity of housing options makes affordable housing closer to jobs
- Second lowest infrastructure costs of all scenarios
- Lowest personal transportation costs of all scenarios
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Water:
- Lowest water consumption of all scenarios
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Air
Quality:
- Better air quality than A, worse than B or C
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