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The Wasatch Front Regional Council is excited to announce the first round of Station Area Planning Technical Assistance (SAP) program awards.

Our August Map of the Month highlights a new interactive map that allows users to set their own criteria to create a custom housing suitability map for any single city or combination of cities in Weber County. We’re working to provide similar information in a region-wide map expected later this year.

The public is being invited to provide input on hundreds of transportation projects along the Wasatch Front. The projects, totaling more than $7 billion, are deemed a priority by the Wasatch Front Regional Council in conjunction with the Utah Department of Transportation and the Utah Transit Authority to improve mobility, strengthen the economy and enhance quality of life.

Utah’s leaders have a history of working toward compromises on difficult issues. Will the state’s growing population make such solutions harder in the future?

The challenge is maintaining quality of life when there are a lot more lives.

I was frankly shocked to read the article in last Sunday’s Salt Lake Tribune, “Smart sprawl: The way to grow?” It seemed so imbalanced and much longer than the thesis deserved.