Still most community leaders are working with the coalition. About half of those have given money to the Envision Utah education cause. City leaders who have been involved with Envision Utah say the group has started a beneficial discussion and provided helpful data and tools. The density part of Envision Utah's discussion gets lost in Bluffdale too. It's not conducive to what we're doing.
People here are very much against the high density.
But Tom Dolan, Mayor of Sandy and vice chairman of Envision Utah, said the group isn't advocating acres of apartment complexes. Both Envision Utah and the Utah Quality Growth Commission, created by the Legislature last year, have been criticized generally for not allowing the market to do its work where growth is concerned. The state's second largest city, with 106,000 people, West Valley is working with Envision Utah and the Quality Growth Commission to rejuvenate 300 acres of public and private land near the city's gateway bordering the Jordan River. Some older businesses line 3300 South, the rest is vacant land and power poles. And the city has a vision the area can be much, much more.