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Melissa Trainer rides through a bounty of wildflowers on her way to winning the women s 45+ division at this year’s Soda Creek Scramble mountain bike race in Keystone. Soda Creek Trail is one of the many trails managed by Summit County.
Photo by John Hanson
The Summit County Open Space and Trails Department last adopted a comprehensive plan in 1996, and it focused on acquiring land to build out a trails system that now supports a record-breaking number of visitors and residents alike.
Now, 25 years later, the Open Space and Trails department is in the process of creating and adopting a new master plan that will outline the county’s goals moving forward for the next three decades.
Photo by Michael Yearout / Michael Yearout Photography
The goal of last week’s Summit County Housing Action Initiative was to bring various stakeholder groups together to brainstorm initiatives, programs and projects that would help curb Summit County’s affordable housing issue. At the Summit County Commissioners’ work session meeting Tuesday, July 27, county staff and elected officials discussed the six main strategies stakeholders valued the most and identified key players and next steps to move these solutions forward.
The six strategies that were most valued at the housing summit were:
Launching an online clearing house for locals to find housing in and around the county
A developer earlier this winter pitched residents on a proposal to incorporate a new city in Summit County that would include 17,000 acres between Browns Canyon Road in the northwest and Democrat Alley outside of Kamas on the east. The blue areas are identified in the proposal as future sites for “urban village” development, while the orange area would be a town center. A partner in the firm says the specifics of the proposal have been altered but that incorporation plans are continuing.
Graphic by Ben Olson/Park Record
A firm advertising itself as Utah’s largest master plan developer has been approaching residents in the unincorporated areas near Kamas and Browns Canyon with a proposition: Sign with us and we’ll pay the upfront costs to turn your sagebrush into a suburb and we’ll split the profits.