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Right street, right place
Don’t accept a one-size-fits-all street design for your city or town, or a highway design for your Main Street. Street designs that fit the context lead to better neighborhoods and communities.
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Immigration declines may have significant consequences for regions that rely on immigrants to sustain their populations and labor productivity
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This is an example of clear federal over-reach in part because no clear defensible rationale is provided for this unprecedented move. nytimes.com/2025/12/22/clima… When do our communities over-reach? When does our state over-reach?
Where there's a surplus of supply, rents are falling.
Where there's a shortage of supply, rents are rising.
It's 2025, and supply and demand still matter.
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Note that #NorthCarolina is the only state with three cities in Quadrant 1 (the success quadrant)
#housing#affordability
.@CNUUtah is hosting @VictorDover for an informative free event next week.
November 19, 12:30pm
Wasatch Front Regional Council office or online
Learn more and register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1XIo…
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Always interesting the way transportation expenses are left out of the discussion. Utah has some of the highest household transportation expenses in the world. The lead photo itself is irony.
80% of Utah’s population is serviced by the @RideUTA FrontRunner commuter rail system. As Utah looks to continued population growth and to hosting the 2034 Winter Olympics, I’m working to secure the resources necessary to expand FrontRunner and ensure our state is well prepared for its exciting future.
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Planning as Strategic Design, Siqi Zhu
What is planning’s relationship to design? Explore how urban planning as “strategic design” can address systemic challenges like inequality, housing affordability, and climate change—beyond traditional design solut...
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