Michael Torrie wrote:
Hans Fugal wrote:
Anyway, my take on it is it's a crying shame that people are dumb but
it's not news. It's a crying shame that Utah is filling up and space is
limited, limiting your choices (or forcing you to a longer commute), but
it is.
Utah is hardly filling up--the wasatch front is.
Yeah, s/Utah/Wasatch Front/g in my post. I thought of that near the end
but was too lazy to change it. :)
It was a natural
evolution, but without any planning whatsoever, and that's tragic. The
subdivisions are all in the wrong places. If, 100 years ago, growth had
been planned for, then most of the cities would not be where they are
today. Instead subdivisions would have been built in the west deserts
and on marginal land, leaving the wasatch valley area available for farm
land and orchards. When SLC was founded, it was planned such that
people could live among the land that they farmed, which was sensible
for the 1800s. Utah could be fairly self-sufficient in terms of basic
food production. Today the farmland is all but gone in the fertile areas.
But of course that's totally fine because food comes from grocery stores
now anyway. And we probably don't have enough water for both people and
orchards anyway.
Good points, but perhaps the more tragic consequence of lack of planning
is the abysmal transportation system. One corridor (a freeway and a
couple of frontage roads) just doesn't cut it, and will continue to
become a more serious problem as growth continues.
--
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There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
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