SALT LAKE CITY Brian Tonetti was working on an assignment about creeks with some of his University of Utah classmates seven years ago when they stumbled upon something rather fascinating about three of the creeks in Salt Lake County.
The Emigration, Parley s and Red Butte creeks merged together as one as they flowed into the Jordan River. When they visited the site, they found that the unique geographic feature was covered by a parking lot sandwiched between an auto shop and a partially burnt home. It had been removed from the public eye for at least a century. The area had been paved over with a dead-end segment of 1300 South trash, weeds and encroachments abound, he said, reflecting on that initial visit.
Once a dream, new Salt Lake City park becomes reality
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SALT LAKE CITY â It took six years of planning and hard work, but now Salt Lake City leaders are celebrating the opening of a new park in the Glendale neighborhood.
Three Creeks Confluence Park sits in an area that was once covered in concrete, old cars and trash near 1300 South and 900 West.
The idea originally came from college students looking to create a green space to connect people with nature, an idea that local leaders were on board with.
âThe primary purpose of the park is uncovering the three streams we see behind us, Parleys, Emigration and Red Butte Creek, and the location where they enter the Jordan river,â said Tyler Murdock, project manager for Salt Lake City Public Lands Development.
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Public health orders in Utah related to the COVID-19 pandemic have now ended. State health officials announced Thursday, Utah has met the criteria laid out in the Legislature’s “Pandemic Endgame” bill. This story and more in Tuesday evening s news brief.
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Reimagining Salt Lake City Public Lands As Equitable Resources
Salt Lake City is taking on a master planning process to figure out what the future of its public lands will look like over the next two decades. It’s called “Reimagine Nature,” and it includes the way residents use and access parks, trails, forests and even golf courses. The city is also trying to make natural spaces more equitable for residents, so staff has done targeted outreach to underrepresented communities. They’ve found that people of color and residents on the west side of the city want to feel more connected to parks in their communities.
SALT LAKE CITY Public lands leaders for Utah s capital city are close to finishing up the latest round of feedback for the future of the city s public lands projects.
The second phase of Reimagine Nature, or the Public Lands Master Plan, began earlier this month. This week, leaders of the Salt Lake City Parks and Public Lands held an online forum to discuss the latest updates regarding the ongoing project and promote ways to improve the master plan.
The department launched public feedback for the project last year to view what kinds of things residents wanted with their outdoors master plan for the next two decades.