From Deseret News archives:
Growth planning gets recognition
Governor will honor 14 cities and other groups
Nick Duerksen, Sandy community development director, attributes the city's ability to adapt to changing times to careful planning and a continually updated master plan.
"It's a plan to make sure our goals for the city stay intact," he said. "It keeps on the radar scope what kinds of things the city is going to need."
Gov. Olene Walker will recognize Sandy today along with 13 other cities, three counties and two special service districts for their commitment to planning for future growth. The cities, which include Salt Lake City, are the first batch of Quality Growth Communities named by the governor's Quality Growth Commission.
"A Quality Growth Community creates a responsible balance between the protection of natural resources land, air and water and the requisite development of residential, commercial and industrial land to accommodate our expanding economy and population," Walker said.
As a Quality Growth Community, cities get better loan rates for services, preferred access to water resources and priority funding for conservation and transportation.
"It's a rigorous planning process. It isn't enough to have a wish list," Bennett said. "You have to address the needs of the community in terms of the future."
The concept of giving priority to communities with solid plans for growth formed out of discussions with the state's water board, Bennett said. Agency officials were frustrated that cities waited until they were in a crisis before addressing planning needs.
Bennett said many state agencies were willing to cut loan rates and give priority to cities who showed they were working to plan for growth instead of being surprised by it.
"We're trying to address a problem before it becomes a crisis," he said. "The idea is to take the state spending and target it towards communities who are planning for their future."
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