Regional Vision for Growth

Growth along the Wasatch Front is a fact of life. In the next 30 years, the Salt Lake Valley will add 400,000 new residents whether our infrastructure is ready to accommodate them or not. How we handle that much growth will directly impact our quality of life in the years to come. Common sense decisions on development now will greatly increase the value of the scarce dollars we do have to spend on our transportation and other infrastructure needs in the future.

In order to meet this challenge, the Wasatch Front Regional Council, in association with the area cities including Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County, has taken a comprehensive look at this issue and prepared a Vision for growth and development in Salt Lake County and a more focused study on State Street. This Vision and the State Street study, Life on State, can be found at www.wfrc.org. Since the Vision’s adoption will have the distinct possibility of affecting how you and your children will live and work in future years, the Regional Council encourages you to visit its website noted above and leave your thoughts and comments on this issue.

Making the right decisions now will make our community that much more livable later.