| Colorful October is upon us and conference season is wrapping up. Don't forget about the Utah Outdoor Summit coming up this month. We hope you've seen the UDOT community development funding offer for 2019-2020 - the deadline is next week!
We appreciate your feedback about our newsletter content. Please contact us with any questions or suggestions, and thanks for supporting the Utah Community Development Office.
- Keith Heaton, Director of Community Development |
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| The TPA is intended to provide grants for technical assistance to local communities to help them achieve their goals and plan for growth. Plans, studies or analyses related to land use and/or transportation will be eligible for funding, including but not limited to: •Community Visioning Projects •Transportation Master Plans •Active Transportation/Multimodal Plans •Corridor Plans/Solutions Development Processes •General Plans •Zoning Code Updates •Small Area Land Use/Transportation Plans See more information here |
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Does your community have a new Master Plan or General Plan, or are you looking at updating your land use ordinances? Here's a quick reference for options when updating your zoning map. Download the tool here |
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| Better Days 2020 and other community organizations are asking Utahns to vote online every day at VoteYourMainStreet.org/SLC to help preserve the historic Ladies' Literary Club building in Salt Lake City. The Clubhouse is competing against 20 sites nationwide to win $150,000 in preservation funding, and it needs your help to win!
We hope you will share the voting link and this link to sign up for voting reminders with your followers on social media, newsletters, and more so we can support the Ladies' Literary Clubhouse and honor women's contributions to Utah communities. Online voting opens TODAY and runs through October 29, meaning people can cast 5 votes per day for the next 5 weeks. Getting people to vote daily is crucial for success.
The Clubhouse is also hosting a public open house on October 5. All are welcome at this free event with yoga and coffee in the morning, public nook & cranny tours throughout the day, and an evening of food and drink, live music, and dancing. More info is at ClubhouseSLC.com
Learn more and vote here
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October 22-24 | Dixie Center, St. George
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| The 2019 Utah Outdoor Recreation Summit is a three-day event held at the Dixie Center in beautiful St. George. You’re invited to come and be a part of an important outdoor recreation discussion. You will join local stakeholders, industry professionals and land managers that play a role in Utah’s outdoor recreation community – in the fastest growing county in the U.S. Network during one of our attendee activities such as a road or mountain bike ride, OHV ride, or a kayaking or paddleboarding at a local reservoir. Get inspired and stay informed about current outdoor recreation issues in one of our five educational tracks. Give back to local recreation areas and meet new people in the industry during a service project. We hope to see you there! Learn more and register here |
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November 2, 2019 9 AM - 1 PM |
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The Land Use Academy of Utah is hosting an introductory training on land use in Utah for local government officials.
The training will be broadcast live from the Utah State University (USU) facility in Taylorsville (920 West Levoy Drive Taylorsville, UT 84123) to other extension sites throughout the state in which participants can interact in real time with the presenters.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from and interact with Utah’s land use experts in your neck of the woods! Learn more and register here |
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A DIFFERENT SORT OF MINEAlabaster in Escalante
The Salt Lake Tribune | www.sltrib.com | Published Sept. 9, 2019 |
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| Alabaster quarries, along with coal mining and oil and gas drilling, soon can occur on most of these former monument lands under a management plan released this month by the Bureau of Land Management. Even though the proposed alabaster quarries would be mom-and-pop operations, whose annual output wouldn’t fill a singe coal truck, Nicole Croft, executive director of Grand Staircase Escalante Partners, remains deeply concerned. Read on here |
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SMALL TOWN FLIPS THE VACATION RENTAL NARRATIVENew Mexico town plans on AirBnB influx
High Country News | www.hcn.org | Published Sept 20, 2019
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| Though Airbnb has developed a reputation for draining small mountain towns of affordable rentals and destroying community identity, Mapes thinks that the company just might be able to help Questa rebuild itself. Mapes sees short-term rentals as a way to provide income for homeowners and a welcome for more tourists, thus enabling the village — perched between the peaks of the Carson National Forest and the canyons of the Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument — to capitalize on its outdoor recreation potential. Read on here |
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