city development

  • Local and Mixed-Use Superior to Corporate Big Box Zoning

    Local and Mixed-Use Superior to Corporate Big Box Zoning

    Mixed-use developments (a combination of retail and living space in one area) nearly always outperform strip malls, big-box developments and suburban-style cul-de-sac developments in terms of overall tax revenue collected…

  • South Salt Lake Embarks on a New Image

    South Salt Lake Embarks on a New Image

    The misconception that South Salt Lake and Salt Lake City are one and the same is being corrected by a long-term plan to create a destination city center and urban…

  • Impact Fees in Sugar House

    Impact Fees in Sugar House

    Although Sugar House is experiencing supergentrification, Utah law limits the ways that impact fees can be charged and spent and those limits impact the ability of the City to mitigate…