Utah Land Use Politics Blog

Wilf Sommerkorn’s take on the latest in Utah land use politics

• YOU WERE SAYING?

  Despite the many recent explanations for the rising cost of housing, which point to…

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• FOR LOVE OF MY REGION…

  A just released book from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, titled Megaregions and…

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• THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING…

  The list of ways for local officials to get around the new zoning reform…

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• IF LIFE WERE FAIR…

  As I was putting together the slides for the upcoming Legislative Update luncheons we…

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• CAN WE AT LEAST BE … CONSISTENT?

  I’ve taken to calling the just completed legislative session The Year of the General…

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• WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED, FOLKS…

  A story in today’s DesNews confirms that the housing affordability crisis is not slowing…

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• END NOTES

  A follow-up note to yesterday’s post – much of what the legislature passed this…

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• TO PREEMPT, OR NOT TO PREEMPT…

  A couple of news stories that have popped up recently have given me the…

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• FOR WANT OF A NAIL, THE (FUTURE) WAS LOST

  An issue that I’ve been harping on for some time is annexations and incorporations. …

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