Are you fired up about the future of the Wasatch Canyons? Do you have an opinion about development (or lack of) in our mountains? Feel a need to speak your mind to those in charge? Then you’d best show up to the Wasatch Canyon Today Symposium on Monday, March 26.
The Salt Lake County Public Works Department is hosting the Wasatch Canyons Today symposium, which is being co-sponsored by Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County and the US Forest Service. The event will focus upon the myriad public services challenges facing us at every level of government as population pressures increase along our foothills and in our mountain canyons. The keynote event of the morning will be a panel discussion on the county’s land use ordinance as it relates to development in the Wasatch.
The symposium will also provide an environment to discuss a variety of issues that affect our Wasatch Canyons. Those issues include sanitation, road design, construction and maintanance, building code enforcement, water quality monitoring, addresses, planning and zoning, snow plowing, and more.
Wasatch Canyons Today starts the conversation and will engage stakeholders, including canyon residents, the tourism industry, transportation interests, political stakeholders, law enforcement/public safety, and any other interested parties. They will focus on practical, every day issues from Emigration Canyon to Rose and Butterfield Canyons, and everything in between
There’s a lot of pressure on the Wasatch Canyons today, hence the name of the symposium. With SkiLink, government support of a ski resort interconnect and proposed expansion of ski resort boundaries, this meeting is bound to be filled with a lot of opinions about what should be done in the Wasatch at this moment in time.
Included in the symposium will be a presentation by David Gellner, called, “Loved to Death” – A Story of Sustainability Planning in the Wasatch Canyons.
The event is free, open to the public, and will take place at the Cultural Celebration Center, located at 1355 West 3100 South in West Valley City.
If you plan on attending, organizers ask that you RSVP by March 21st by calling (385) 468-7050, or sending an email to tbutler@slco.org
For more information, visit http://www.pw.slco.org/html/Wasatch_Canyons_Toda.html