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Here’s why.</h1><h2 class="article-subheadline">The Cache County council is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to change the designation for all of the resort’s land in that county.</h2><div style="display:none" id="f0fhmxmVflO21zj" data-fusion-collection="features" data-fusion-type="_global/article-image" data-fusion-message="Could not render component [features:_global/article-image]"></div><div class="bylinev2"><div class="row"><div><a href="/author/jjag"><div class="article-byline-author">By Julie Jag</div></a></div><div class="author-container"><span class="article-byline-author"> | Feb. 25, 2025, 1:00 p.m.</span></div><div class="author-container"><span class="article-byline-author"> | Updated: 4:02 p.m.</span></div></div></div><div style="display:none" id="f0fSQqI7MjYN5RL" data-fusion-collection="features" data-fusion-type="article-group-buttons/default" data-fusion-message="Could not render component [features:article-group-buttons/default]"></div></div><div class="article-body-container" itemProp="articleBody"><p class="body-raw">Powder Mountain unveiled a new slogan this season: Escape the Masses.</p><p class="body-raw">Yet even at the largest ski area in North America, achieving that directive could become increasingly more difficult for guests over the next 25 years pending a decision by county officials on the resort’s proposed master plan.</p><p class="body-raw">At its meeting Tuesday, the Cache County Council will consider approving Powder Mountain’s request for a rezone of more than 1,600 acres. Approval of the designation would allow the resort to take a step forward with a plan to add hundreds of houses and condos, at least one hotel and up to six corporate retreats over the next two decades.</p><p class="body-raw">For the county, one of the smallest in Utah, the council’s decision could be impactful in shaping its future for generations.</p><p class="body-raw">“This is the first step in a longer process that we’re going to be grappling with as a county,” Dirk Anderson, the county’s interim director of development services, told the council on Jan. 28.</p><p class="body-raw">“We also have a lot of responsibility ourselves to make sure that we get the review of the looming, impending master plan correct.”</p><div id="fusion-static-enter:GZLOJCQGJJAMPM6EFL3SLGG56A" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="GZLOJCQGJJAMPM6EFL3SLGG56A"></div><div class="raw-item"><div id="newsletter-embed" class="newsletter-embeds-recaptcha"></div> <script src="https://newsletter-embeds.s3.amazonaws.com/open-lands.js"></script> <script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js" async defer></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/axios/1.6.0/axios.min.js" integrity="sha512-WrdC3CE9vf1nBf58JHepuWT4x24uTacky9fuzw2g/3L9JkihgwZ6Cfv+JGTtNyosOhEmttMtEZ6H3qJWfI7gIQ==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" ></script> <script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadCallback&render=explicit" async defer ></script> <script> function onSignUp() { const token = grecaptcha.getResponse(); if (!token) { alert("Please verify the reCAPTCHA!"); } else { axios .post( "https://8c0ug47jei.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/newsletter/checkCaptcha", { token, env: "PROD", } ) .then(({ data: { message } }) => { console.log(message); if (message === "Human 👨 👩") { document.getElementById("submit-btn").removeAttribute("disabled"); } else { console.log("ROBOTO"); } }); } } </script> </div><div id="fusion-static-exit:GZLOJCQGJJAMPM6EFL3SLGG56A" style="display:none" data-fusion-component="GZLOJCQGJJAMPM6EFL3SLGG56A"></div><p class="body-raw">Powder Mountain has undergone a facelift since Netflix cofounder <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2024/03/29/north-americas-largest-ski-resort/">Reed Hastings took over </a>the Ogden Valley resort in 2023. Hastings promised to<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2023/09/06/powder-mountains-pivot-point-reed/"> infuse the ski area with $100 million </a>in infrastructure improvements. And this season he embarked on a novel plan to create a private community at the top of the mountain and run <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2023/12/13/reed-hastings-embarks-first-of-its/">both private and public lifts</a> within the resort.</p><p class="body-raw">As part of that plan, Powder Mountain is asking the council to rezone 1,621 acres in the Davenport area that it acquired last spring. The acreage, which runs along Davenport Road almost to where it connects with Flint Grove Road on the north end of the resort, carries a Forest Recreation 40 zoning designation. In that zone, development is basically limited to seasonal cabins. Hotels, restaurants and food trucks are prohibited.</p><p class="body-raw">In lieu of that, the resort is seeking a rezone to the more development-friendly Resort Recreation designation. Under that zoning, Powder Mountain could build more densely in some areas while keeping the rest mostly rugged, according to Brooke Hontz, the resort’s chief development and construction officer.</p><p class="body-raw">Both zoning designations allow for the installation and operation of ski lifts.</p><div class="article-body-element" style="margin-top:20px"><div class="image-rootCenter"><style data-emotion="css 1ez1ofp">.css-1ez1ofp .image-img{width:100%;height:auto;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-noHeight{height:auto;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-noWidth{width:100%;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-rootCenter{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:column;-ms-flex-direction:column;flex-direction:column;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-rootLeft{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:column;-ms-flex-direction:column;flex-direction:column;-webkit-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webkit-justify-content:flex-start;justify-content:flex-start;}</style><div class="css-1ez1ofp"><span class=" lazy-load-image-background " style="background-image:url(https://www.sltrib.com/resizer/v2/WTBPYJLCYREGBHR43JG3YVTPFQ.jpg?auth=ec796ea6f31e0a23cefcbee74ab43b95721ea199002afa6f14f2a3dcd10ca011&height=500&quality=88);background-size:100% 100%;color:transparent;display:inline-block;height:400;width:600"><span class="image-img" style="display:inline-block;border-radius:0;width:600;height:400"></span></span></div><p class="caption-credit">(Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)</p></div></div><p class="body-raw">In addition to the land it is looking to rezone, Powder Mountain already has 3,580 acres in Cache County that were designated as Resort Recreation during the 2001-02 ski season. Hontz said most of the development is planned for that land. Adding these 1,600 acres would allow the ski area and county officials, Hontz said, to “have all of that ownership under one plan and one conversation.”</p><p class="body-raw">She added that because most of the homes are expected to be second homes, they would qualify as “seasonal cabins.” The resort, therefore, could still build them without the rezone. The difference is that they would be spread out across the entire 1,600 acres, she said, instead of concentrated into a 97-acre swath as planned.</p><p class="body-raw">“You’d pretty much sprawl across the top of the mountain,” she said in a phone interview with The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday, “because you’re required to, not necessarily because you want to.”</p><p class="body-raw">Hotels, corporate retreats and retail are not allowed under the current zoning, however. Hontz said Powder Mountain does not currently have plans to build any of that on the 1,600-acre parcel.</p><p class="body-raw">“There’s no multi-family [residences] or hotel planned within the master plan of the rezone area,” she told the Tribune. “It’s all in the existing area that’s already rezoned.”</p><div class="article-body-element" style="margin-top:20px"><div class="image-rootCenter"><style data-emotion="css 1ez1ofp">.css-1ez1ofp .image-img{width:100%;height:auto;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-noHeight{height:auto;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-noWidth{width:100%;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-rootCenter{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:column;-ms-flex-direction:column;flex-direction:column;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-rootLeft{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:column;-ms-flex-direction:column;flex-direction:column;-webkit-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webkit-justify-content:flex-start;justify-content:flex-start;}</style><div class="css-1ez1ofp"><span class=" lazy-load-image-background " style="background-image:url(https://www.sltrib.com/resizer/v2/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg?auth=160024ed81d6c38994aa4226b29676bd5c5967b23a8b28b1d145b2a98476d1bb&height=500&quality=88);background-size:100% 100%;color:transparent;display:inline-block;height:400;width:600"><span class="image-img" style="display:inline-block;border-radius:0;width:600;height:400"></span></span></div><p class="caption-credit">(Tristan Sadler | Powder Mountain) Skiers and snowboarders take a slow ride up the Timberline lift during opening weekend at Powder Mountain on Dec. 9, 2023. The resort replaced the lift with a fixed-grip quad for the 2024-25 season, and the area will be the site of considerable mixed-use development if Powder Mountain's master plan is approved by Cache and Weber county officials.</p></div></div><p class="body-raw">Maps show most of the mixed-use development is planned near the current Timberline Lodge. Another cluster is in the southeast corner of the resort, between Valhalla and Raintree and also at the top of the Raintree lift. Anderson said the new rezone could allow for denser development in those areas.</p><p class="body-raw">Powder Mountain stands as the largest ski area in North America with 12,850 skiable acres (though it is second to Park City Mountain in the United States in terms of lift-accessed terrain). The sprawling resort straddles both Cache and Weber counties. In 2015, Weber County <a href="https://www.webercountyutah.gov/commission/documents/uploads/Overlook%20at%20Powder%20Mountain.pdf" target="_blank">rezoned more than 6,000 acres</a> of Powder Mountain to allow for commercial development similar to what the ski area is requesting in Cache County.</p><p class="body-raw">Cache County is the eighth smallest of the state’s 29 counties by size with 750,666 acres, according to the Geographic Information Systems database. The total area Powder Mountain is asking to be zoned as Resort Recreation accounts for .66% of the county’s total acreage.</p><p class="body-raw">With more than 100 people per square mile, though, Cache County has also been <a href="https://ibis.utah.gov/ibisph-view/pdf/resource/CountyClassificationsInfo.pdf">designated one of Utah’s six “urban counties”</a> by the state’s public health service. And it is <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/utah/fastest-growing">among the fastest growing</a>.</p><p class="body-raw">The Cache County General Plan was created to manage that growth, and the requested rezone is partially consistent with that plan. The area has been given a “Mountain Rural and Conservation” designation, the preferred uses for which include outdoor recreation and tourism. Secondary land uses include resorts.</p><p class="body-raw">“It can be very impactful,” said Daniel Dansie, an attorney who handles land use and zoning cases at the Salt Lake City based firm Kirton McConkie. “From the developer’s perspective, it’s impactful in a super positive way. They’re going to say that this is going to bring additional jobs, additional resources to the community. … [But] anytime you do a rezone, it can potentially have significant effects for the community because you’re changing the scope of what’s the permitted use on the property.”</p><p class="body-raw">Hontz told the council that the project would pump $40,000 into Cache County in its first year. In 25 years, when it is expected to be fully built out, she said it would capture $5.4 million for the county and $7.69 million for the Cache County School District.</p><div class="article-body-element" style="margin-top:20px"><div class="image-rootCenter"><style data-emotion="css 1ez1ofp">.css-1ez1ofp .image-img{width:100%;height:auto;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-noHeight{height:auto;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-noWidth{width:100%;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-rootCenter{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:column;-ms-flex-direction:column;flex-direction:column;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;}.css-1ez1ofp .image-rootLeft{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:column;-ms-flex-direction:column;flex-direction:column;-webkit-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webkit-justify-content:flex-start;justify-content:flex-start;}</style><div class="css-1ez1ofp"><span class=" lazy-load-image-background " style="background-image:url(https://www.sltrib.com/resizer/v2/ZMXGW6CXFBHNZLMGTZOEYXRAU4.JPG?auth=3078886f929e2b09d2310d1194196d9b87a780ad9f8034c9ffa9d48ac4b0b4df&height=500&quality=88);background-size:100% 100%;color:transparent;display:inline-block;height:400;width:600"><span class="image-img" style="display:inline-block;border-radius:0;width:600;height:400"></span></span></div><p class="caption-credit">(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brooke Hontz seen at Deer Valley Resort in December 2022, is Powder Mountain's chief development and construction officer. She is helping the resort navigate county permits, rezones and approvals. </p></div></div><p class="body-raw">If the council approves the rezone, that will likely be its last say on what happens at Powder Mountain. The resort presented its master plan to the Cache County Planning Commission in November, and that body will be tasked with deciding whether to approve the plan or require changes. The planning commission will also be responsible for reviewing any permit and variant development requests.</p><p class="body-raw">That’s why the council has not rushed to approve the rezone, Anderson, the interim county planning director, told the Tribune.</p><p class="body-raw">“We’re taking steps to doubly review our own code,” Anderson said, “and make sure that we give Powder Mountain the due process they deserve, and that they maintain their rights to develop their land – that they should – but also protect the public interest.”</p><p class="body-raw">That’s a different tack than the council took last summer, when it agreed to allow the resort to <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/06/27/cache-county-fast-tracks-luxury/" target="_blank">bypass county zoning rules to build two lifts</a> in time for the 2024-25 ski season. The Lighting Ridge and Raintree lifts are not included in Powder Mountain’s current master plan and the council voted 4-3 to allow the resort to install them before its newly proposed master plan was granted approval.</p><p class="body-raw">Powder Mountain may ask for another exemption in the coming months. It has at least one new lift, to the Davenport area, slated for construction this summer. That lift is not on the resort’s current master plan and a decision by the planning commission on that proposal has been delayed while the council mulls the rezone request.</p><p class="body-raw">Powder Mountain also hopes to replace its 1990s-era on-mountain maintenance facility, Hontz said, as well as build more hiking and biking trails during the warmer months.</p><p class="body-raw">Hontz said the county still has plenty of guardrails in place to make the development fit its vision.</p><p class="body-raw">“Even though the use is allowed, you can’t just go do it wherever you want to,” she said. “You have to go indicate where you want things, get them approved, and then come back with site-specific development plans if they’re things like commercial uses, and then pull a building permit. 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Hastings promised to<a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2023/09/06/powder-mountains-pivot-point-reed/\"> infuse the ski area with $100 million </a>in infrastructure improvements. And this season he embarked on a novel plan to create a private community at the top of the mountain and run <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2023/12/13/reed-hastings-embarks-first-of-its/\">both private and public lifts</a> within the resort.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GD7JWRNOVVAWBIBZX3MNRDFJG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853034,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"As part of that plan, Powder Mountain is asking the council to rezone 1,621 acres in the Davenport area that it acquired last spring. The acreage, which runs along Davenport Road almost to where it connects with Flint Grove Road on the north end of the resort, carries a Forest Recreation 40 zoning designation. In that zone, development is basically limited to seasonal cabins. 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Hontz said most of the development is planned for that land. Adding these 1,600 acres would allow the ski area and county officials, Hontz said, to “have all of that ownership under one plan and one conversation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6W6VH5KOCZDI7OE7RSIQKLZX3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853038,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"She added that because most of the homes are expected to be second homes, they would qualify as “seasonal cabins.” The resort, therefore, could still build them without the rezone. The difference is that they would be spread out across the entire 1,600 acres, she said, instead of concentrated into a 97-acre swath as planned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GOIV2P7EVNH4NIJOIFXCEY7UAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853039,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“You’d pretty much sprawl across the top of the mountain,” she said in a phone interview with The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday, “because you’re required to, not necessarily because you want to.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VGMRV2ZQBDXZJPGBQNMGKINDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853040,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Hotels, corporate retreats and retail are not allowed under the current zoning, however. Hontz said Powder Mountain does not currently have plans to build any of that on the 1,600-acre parcel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7FHATHDZBD3RBFHFXAXNSHHIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853042,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“There’s no multi-family [residences] or hotel planned within the master plan of the rezone area,” she told the Tribune. “It’s all in the existing area that’s already rezoned.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/KXqTo565HUyZepaaW_iBpvM_bhE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","galleries":[],"ingestionMethod":"manual","keywords":[""],"mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"231209_PowderMountain_Timberline_OpeningDay_0132.jpg","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","owner":"jjag@sltrib.com","proxyUrl":"/resizer/KXqTo565HUyZepaaW_iBpvM_bhE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/KXqTo565HUyZepaaW_iBpvM_bhE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","restricted":false,"takenOn":"2023-12-08T23:10:00Z","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/WQjopNN-6H6oUvcbohGI9rj5Pf0=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","version":6,"template_id":335,"_id":"SSZVC5ZJTJHVPF3XYWY3QNHQTE","comments":[]},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"160024ed81d6c38994aa4226b29676bd5c5967b23a8b28b1d145b2a98476d1bb"},"caption":"(Tristan Sadler | Powder Mountain) Skiers and snowboarders take a slow ride up the Timberline lift during opening weekend at Powder Mountain on Dec. 9, 2023. 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Another cluster is in the southeast corner of the resort, between Valhalla and Raintree and also at the top of the Raintree lift. Anderson said the new rezone could allow for denser development in those areas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7FHATHDZBD3RBFHFXAXNSHHIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853042,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain stands as the largest ski area in North America with 12,850 skiable acres (though it is second to Park City Mountain in the United States in terms of lift-accessed terrain). The sprawling resort straddles both Cache and Weber counties. In 2015, Weber County <a href=\"https://www.webercountyutah.gov/commission/documents/uploads/Overlook%20at%20Powder%20Mountain.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rezoned more than 6,000 acres</a> of Powder Mountain to allow for commercial development similar to what the ski area is requesting in Cache County.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBFWPQLSYRCDTIUM47G7VCXWTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853044,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Cache County is the eighth smallest of the state’s 29 counties by size with 750,666 acres, according to the Geographic Information Systems database. The total area Powder Mountain is asking to be zoned as Resort Recreation accounts for .66% of the county’s total acreage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LW4AINUQZBGJ7LD5UGCCXQBBUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853045,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"With more than 100 people per square mile, though, Cache County has also been <a href=\"https://ibis.utah.gov/ibisph-view/pdf/resource/CountyClassificationsInfo.pdf\">designated one of Utah’s six “urban counties”</a> by the state’s public health service. And it is <a href=\"https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/utah/fastest-growing\">among the fastest growing</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXULLYDX5RA6NGZKXM3HKMKBOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853046,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The Cache County General Plan was created to manage that growth, and the requested rezone is partially consistent with that plan. The area has been given a “Mountain Rural and Conservation” designation, the preferred uses for which include outdoor recreation and tourism. Secondary land uses include resorts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7E6SVQCGGZFG5MHX4CENC5RQ54","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853047,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“It can be very impactful,” said Daniel Dansie, an attorney who handles land use and zoning cases at the Salt Lake City based firm Kirton McConkie. “From the developer’s perspective, it’s impactful in a super positive way. They’re going to say that this is going to bring additional jobs, additional resources to the community. … [But] anytime you do a rezone, it can potentially have significant effects for the community because you’re changing the scope of what’s the permitted use on the property.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2V6FY4ZJLVAY7FW4YZKRAZ4EPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853048,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Hontz told the council that the project would pump $40,000 into Cache County in its first year. 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The resort presented its master plan to the Cache County Planning Commission in November, and that body will be tasked with deciding whether to approve the plan or require changes. The planning commission will also be responsible for reviewing any permit and variant development requests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4PMAWWW4RCU7ECVHJDPYJXJCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853050,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That’s why the council has not rushed to approve the rezone, Anderson, the interim county planning director, told the Tribune.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2P4L4S2XAFCILKQ4NN7WHSI74I","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853051,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“We’re taking steps to doubly review our own code,” Anderson said, “and make sure that we give Powder Mountain the due process they deserve, and that they maintain their rights to develop their land – that they should – but also protect the public interest.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKCKLUUNO5F4HKGCUW24Y6WMGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853052,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That’s a different tack than the council took last summer, when it agreed to allow the resort to <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/06/27/cache-county-fast-tracks-luxury/\" target=\"_blank\">bypass county zoning rules to build two lifts</a> in time for the 2024-25 ski season. The Lighting Ridge and Raintree lifts are not included in Powder Mountain’s current master plan and the council voted 4-3 to allow the resort to install them before its newly proposed master plan was granted approval.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OF5X3PRIRA67LV3MQJ24CWEQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853053,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain may ask for another exemption in the coming months. It has at least one new lift, to the Davenport area, slated for construction this summer. That lift is not on the resort’s current master plan and a decision by the planning commission on that proposal has been delayed while the council mulls the rezone request.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JT2TW7A37JFEREBRWFXIDANGZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853054,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain also hopes to replace its 1990s-era on-mountain maintenance facility, Hontz said, as well as build more hiking and biking trails during the warmer months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VVXQRZ7OSVDT7AH72MOLJAGRNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853055,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Hontz said the county still has plenty of guardrails in place to make the development fit its vision.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IEUSZPWTHNFOLO2KB63O26IXUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853056,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“Even though the use is allowed, you can’t just go do it wherever you want to,” she said. “You have to go indicate where you want things, get them approved, and then come back with site-specific development plans if they’re things like commercial uses, and then pull a building permit. 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The resort presented its master plan to the Cache County Planning Commission in November, and that body will be tasked with deciding whether to approve the plan or require changes. The planning commission will also be responsible for reviewing any permit and variant development requests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4PMAWWW4RCU7ECVHJDPYJXJCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853050,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That’s why the council has not rushed to approve the rezone, Anderson, the interim county planning director, told the Tribune.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2P4L4S2XAFCILKQ4NN7WHSI74I","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853051,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“We’re taking steps to doubly review our own code,” Anderson said, “and make sure that we give Powder Mountain the due process they deserve, and that they maintain their rights to develop their land – that they should – but also protect the public interest.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKCKLUUNO5F4HKGCUW24Y6WMGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853052,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That’s a different tack than the council took last summer, when it agreed to allow the resort to <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/06/27/cache-county-fast-tracks-luxury/\" target=\"_blank\">bypass county zoning rules to build two lifts</a> in time for the 2024-25 ski season. The Lighting Ridge and Raintree lifts are not included in Powder Mountain’s current master plan and the council voted 4-3 to allow the resort to install them before its newly proposed master plan was granted approval.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OF5X3PRIRA67LV3MQJ24CWEQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853053,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain may ask for another exemption in the coming months. It has at least one new lift, to the Davenport area, slated for construction this summer. That lift is not on the resort’s current master plan and a decision by the planning commission on that proposal has been delayed while the council mulls the rezone request.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JT2TW7A37JFEREBRWFXIDANGZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853054,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain also hopes to replace its 1990s-era on-mountain maintenance facility, Hontz said, as well as build more hiking and biking trails during the warmer months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VVXQRZ7OSVDT7AH72MOLJAGRNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853055,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Hontz said the county still has plenty of guardrails in place to make the development fit its vision.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IEUSZPWTHNFOLO2KB63O26IXUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853056,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“Even though the use is allowed, you can’t just go do it wherever you want to,” she said. “You have to go indicate where you want things, get them approved, and then come back with site-specific development plans if they’re things like commercial uses, and then pull a building permit. 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Nester and the rest of Richins’ legal team have been filing motions to seat a jury they think will be the most open to hearing Richins’ defense, including asking to draw jurors from outside Summit County.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SVDT7VTDNNC73POKTEZW25I5MU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739913762741,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"However that shakes out, there will be just eight jurors deciding her fate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IKRMTCSGHZDSZLCR2OABWPOO24","additional_properties":{"_id":1739913762742,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"From the bench of his Summit County courtroom in November, 3rd District Judge Richard E. Mrazik told Nester and the other attorneys that he had taken her ask for more jurors seriously. 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I was excited about the prospect of going up to Utah, just being a regular, everyday member of the church and serving a mission. I’d say the most hostility I faced was because I played a year before my mission, and I had a successful season. Then I chose to go on a mission. …Anyway, it comes down to people knowing other members, because my teammates protected me like none other. I will never forget going to house parties, and I would have offensive linemen just pick me up and take me out and say, “Covey, this is not for you.” Whenever I go speak to other youth members, I say to them the truer you are, and the more unashamed you are of your membership and your beliefs, the more people respect it. People ask me about my <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/10/16/lds-temple-garments-women-rejoice/\">[temple] garments</a> in the locker room. … I take an opportunity to tell why I do it and how important it is to me. 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Since then, construction has exploded on Utah’s growing campuses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B3PSZY6MVNDHDMFLMHBPHZIVJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739911731299,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That dated guidance included how many hours per week a classroom should ideally be in use, and what percentage of classroom seats should be occupied. But there aren’t penalties for falling short — and every school in the state does on at least one measure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YERAB6DWFBEBONNPUR72LBXNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739808741649,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The system also does not have any requirements for how much space should be dedicated for student use with classrooms or labs, for instance, versus offices. 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Utah State also has the least amount of classroom space overall at 11%.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3YO4QPAENFHJIXMH3TVSJHZQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739808741658,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"<a href=\"https://slcc.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Lake Community College</a>, at 22%, is an outlier with the largest share of classrooms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JU5X3FSKM5DARLLMMLYHN2DK2M","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/S-3puPiG9Lqy_1pX3yiMerRStmI=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/JU5X3FSKM5DARLLMMLYHN2DK2M.JPG","galleries":[],"ingestionMethod":"manual","iptc_job_identifier":"UTSAC","iptc_title":"STAFF","mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"Campus Office SLCC 20246.JPG","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/JU5X3FSKM5DARLLMMLYHN2DK2M.JPG","owner":"fkjolseth@sltrib.com","proxyUrl":"/resizer/S-3puPiG9Lqy_1pX3yiMerRStmI=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/JU5X3FSKM5DARLLMMLYHN2DK2M.JPG","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/S-3puPiG9Lqy_1pX3yiMerRStmI=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/JU5X3FSKM5DARLLMMLYHN2DK2M.JPG","restricted":false,"takenOn":"2025-02-04T17:54:50Z","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/rEiIRaZ6MQAGuYM9lekczYGq8t4=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/JU5X3FSKM5DARLLMMLYHN2DK2M.JPG","usage_instructions":"Deseret News OUT, KSL OUT, KUTV OUT, KTVX OUT","version":0,"template_id":335,"_id":"LHFB4UXNRBBL3JOBF4CCQY5FZA","comments":[]},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"e463ea52c7f823b7e6e0ac2a03222f7226e755970e0fff9c275b0dc8cd6e1fe4"},"caption":"(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake Community College campus in Taylorsville is pictured on Tuesday, Feb. 4. 2025.","copyright":"© Francisco Kjolseth 2025","created_date":"2025-02-05T04:55:43Z","credits":{"affiliation":[{"name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author"}],"by":[{"byline":"Francisco Kjolseth","name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author"}]},"height":1798,"image_type":"photograph","last_updated_date":"2025-02-05T04:55:43Z","licensable":false,"owner":{"id":"sltrib"},"slug":"CAMPUSOFFICESPACE.02xx25","source":{"additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"},"edit_url":"","system":"photo center"},"status":"","subtitle":"","taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/JU5X3FSKM5DARLLMMLYHN2DK2M.JPG","version":"0.10.9","width":2800,"syndication":{"external_distribution":"","search":""}},{"_id":"3XBSGZCBDVFOJFJOVVLHVU4CZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739808741660,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Sara Mathov, project manager for the SmithGroup, acknowledged that offices are essential to higher education “because of the number of employees needed.” At the U., alone, there are about 5,000 faculty members, not counting other staff and administrators.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNWLZLQRPFCFNA7JWLZ2TXPC7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1739832465220,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"But she worries about<b> </b>so much space being dedicated to them when compared to classrooms and labs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWFYKFQ5QJGZLKIWE3RBSCIDLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739808741659,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“These are the spaces that are needed and essential to run a university and support students,” Mathov said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MWZTOIMUNZDGBCFJVPJU674PLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739808741661,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The SmithGroup’s study notes that before the COVID-19 pandemic, offices were<b> </b>already “among the least utilized spaces on campus.” At that time, most were used between 20% to 50% of the time. That amounts to about an hour and a half during an eight-hour workday at the lowest use.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2B4NGFLVNE5BPUWFRXBF2XUPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739808741662,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"By comparison, a typical classroom is used 50% to 75% of the time, the study says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U246DUA34NCSJL7BXBFMHBIBWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739808741663,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Since the pandemic, faculty, staff and administrators are now in their offices even less while classrooms have returned to about the same use levels, the SmithGroup estimated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DCHIDJ5EHFBZTCG7VLNSPL4PIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739808741665,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Utah schools aren’t required to report how many faculty and staff members<b> </b>have either fully remote or hybrid schedules (with time both on and off campus); the numbers in the study, the SmithGroup believes, are the first time there’s been an attempt to quantify that in Utah.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZVI72QTOZEGTJGXM2AON4V4KA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740368056727,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"If you build it, will they actually come?","level":2,"type":"header"},{"_id":"CDMSYTQNAREQVEAGIJEBQ66W3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646496,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Utah State University has <a href=\"https://www.usu.edu/facilities/planning-design-and-construction/construction/\" target=\"_blank\">three construction projects underway. </a>The University of Utah <a href=\"https://pdc.utah.edu/projects/\" target=\"_blank\">currently has seven</a> — and it has said it’s <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/08/20/university-utah-will-get-fort/\" target=\"_blank\">running out of space on its main campus</a>, expanding now<a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/06/13/university-utah-will-spend-38/\" target=\"_blank\"> into existing buildings</a> in downtown Salt Lake City, too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKZMJITXG5C6JBYN7YGWTC6VE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646497,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Southern Utah University <a href=\"https://www.suu.edu/news/2024/08/business-building-groundbreaking-ceremony.html\" target=\"_blank\">broke ground on a new business building</a> last fall. Utah Valley University is working on <a href=\"https://www.uvu.edu/cet/blog/posts/2023_new_building_breaks_ground.html\" target=\"_blank\">an engineering and technology building</a>. Salt Lake Community College is asking for $9 million this legislative session for updates to its buildings. <a href=\"https://www.weber.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Weber State University</a> is also focused on renovations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKZDTMC3IVHYVFVEJAU4BOEH24","additional_properties":{"_id":1740368056730,"comments":[]},"content":"<div id=\"newsletter-embed\" class=\"newsletter-embeds-recaptcha\"></div>\n<script src=\"https://newsletter-embeds.s3.amazonaws.com/top-stories.js\"><\/script>\n<script src=\"https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js\" async defer><\/script>\n<script\n src=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/axios/1.6.0/axios.min.js\"\n integrity=\"sha512-WrdC3CE9vf1nBf58JHepuWT4x24uTacky9fuzw2g/3L9JkihgwZ6Cfv+JGTtNyosOhEmttMtEZ6H3qJWfI7gIQ==\"\n crossorigin=\"anonymous\"\n referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\n><\/script>\n<script\n src=\"https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadCallback&render=explicit\"\n async\n defer\n><\/script>\n<script>\n function onSignUp() {\n const token = grecaptcha.getResponse();\n if (!token) {\n alert(\"Please verify the reCAPTCHA!\");\n } else {\n axios\n .post(\n \"https://8c0ug47jei.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/newsletter/checkCaptcha\",\n {\n token,\n env: \"PROD\",\n }\n )\n .then(({ data: { message } }) => {\n console.log(message);\n if (message === \"Human 👨 👩\") {\n document.getElementById(\"submit-btn\").removeAttribute(\"disabled\");\n } else {\n console.log(\"ROBOTO\");\n }\n });\n }\n }\n<\/script>\n","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"JUWZWWSX5NBIZDOVXRKBJ4ITFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646498,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Over the past decade, colleges and universities here have been adding new buildings at a breakneck pace. The driving explanation has been that new spaces will draw more students into programs and push up both capacity and enrollment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HK2SLO7UVJGBNFU5X776BDR6ZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646499,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The SmithGroup challenged that assumption.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4P64I7X5BBKRESQWEG6V4WNPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646500,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Frank Markley, a principal consultant with the organization, said the group’s analysis doesn’t address the condition of existing space on campus — if it’s old and not functional, for instance. And, he says, some ongoing campus projects are “related to things that provide unique programs and services at those institutions.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQ4T4RVWPZAURKZCN5QCQYMFWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646501,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Even still, there is a surplus in nearly every space category for every college in the state now. And there are no projected classroom or office deficits for any school by 2032.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHARPMV47BHMJHCQH72WPSQZLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646504,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Overall, there will be a 1.68 million square feet total surplus in buildings across the Utah system in five years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4EV77NHQX5CZLF2QUNTBGLV3WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646505,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"And over that same time frame, Utah’s college enrollment is set to shift. 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Gardner Policy Institute</a> chart a similar course, with an 11% dip projected over the next decade until 2040.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C5DSNITM2JDSBAFSANDCJU4DYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739832465242,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"There’s <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/10/16/student-enrollment-grows-across/\" target=\"_blank\">roughly 207,000 college students</a><b> </b>in the state now attending a traditional<b> </b>public college or university. By 2030, that will probably peak around 313,000, the institute forecasts. Then it will slide back down to 260,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3MZWYQBAYFFC3HHVVXMKCGOIOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646508,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"At the same time, more students are taking classes online than ever before — and that trend will likely continue. Right now, about 33% of students don’t actually go to campus for their coursework, according to the SmithGroup. That will jump to 44% studying entirely off-campus by 2032, the group says, even with new buildings being opened.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4KLABLAOWNEEVKGWYM7CURVJ44","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646509,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"For its calculation, the SmithGroup only counted the full-time equivalent head counts for those who actually use campus buildings or will in the future. 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Rather, there could be unassigned desks that any professor could use when they are on campus. Similar moves are being looked at by Cornell Tech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, <a href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/06/03/how-make-flexible-office-arrangements-work-your-unit-opinion\" target=\"_blank\">according to a study from Inside Higher Ed.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LT32AY3PURAQDFXFHH3ZVCXED4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646515,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"There could still be some private offices, too, that professors could reserve in advance if they needed to meet with a student about a sensitive issue. But for the most part, the SmithGroup suggests that faculty and students could meet in any kind of study or library space on campus, without harm to those essential connections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEZPYPFGAVDWHEHDAY435NB5EA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646516,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The SmithGroup encourages more collaborative meeting spaces, too, for when faculty get together. “There’s a shift towards redesigning office spaces that emphasizes flexibility and community,” the report added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OYTYCIUW2NCONPRCEKTM3HRSGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646518,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The study doesn’t say what schools should do if they claw back some office space for other purposes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FF7ZWFELYJDJHDGMA5BJMEJ6TQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646519,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"It also doesn’t mention reducing administrative offices, specifically, but Markley noted during a presentation to the Utah System of Higher Education that those spaces in older buildings tend to be larger and could also be refigured. That would include the U., where the offices for the president and vice presidents are in <a href=\"https://mjsaa.com/portfolio/park-building/\" target=\"_blank\">the Park Building, which was completed in 1914.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"4E4GJWRRAJHSDDMQPZZLTUPWPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646521,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The SmithGroup said schools should use the data on square footage and enrollment projections “for informing future campus planning efforts.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KDB2A74ESRHTRMCXB23FPGOIWA","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/mECNyX5u1xicZFX8GC2Boz2UnGs=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/KDB2A74ESRHTRMCXB23FPGOIWA.JPG","galleries":[],"ingestionMethod":"manual","iptc_job_identifier":"UTSAC","iptc_title":"STAFF","mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"Campus Office UofU 20259.JPG","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/KDB2A74ESRHTRMCXB23FPGOIWA.JPG","owner":"fkjolseth@sltrib.com","proxyUrl":"/resizer/mECNyX5u1xicZFX8GC2Boz2UnGs=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/KDB2A74ESRHTRMCXB23FPGOIWA.JPG","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/mECNyX5u1xicZFX8GC2Boz2UnGs=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/KDB2A74ESRHTRMCXB23FPGOIWA.JPG","restricted":false,"takenOn":"2025-02-04T21:50:38Z","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/LANSd3pUzwGHPh-eXkHv8Cx4jwE=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/KDB2A74ESRHTRMCXB23FPGOIWA.JPG","usage_instructions":"Deseret News OUT, KSL OUT, KUTV OUT, KTVX OUT","version":0,"template_id":335,"_id":"NY5IGEPPJRFS3E7ICJGAP4VTBQ","comments":[]},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"82a0c2fd26c31c34f952f7416da80bb118505717b03192fe5e1292f92e52de0d"},"caption":"(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Park building on the University of Utah campus, Tuesday, Feb. 4. 2025.","copyright":"© Francisco Kjolseth 2025","created_date":"2025-02-05T04:55:43Z","credits":{"affiliation":[{"name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author"}],"by":[{"byline":"Francisco Kjolseth","name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author"}]},"height":1867,"image_type":"photograph","last_updated_date":"2025-02-05T04:55:43Z","licensable":false,"owner":{"id":"sltrib"},"slug":"CAMPUSOFFICESPACE.02xx25","source":{"additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"},"edit_url":"","system":"photo center"},"status":"","subtitle":"","taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/KDB2A74ESRHTRMCXB23FPGOIWA.JPG","version":"0.10.9","width":2800,"syndication":{"external_distribution":"","search":""}},{"_id":"6B4IMNXIZJHDHCEXYLSC5IWV7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1740368056751,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Comparing to Utah’s technical colleges","level":2,"type":"header"},{"_id":"VK2NK56HBVHRLPPAEMVH6STXHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646523,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Part of what’s fueling Utah lawmakers’ concern about perceived bloat in traditional higher education is that the opposite appears true for <a href=\"https://www.uen.org/institutions/schools?did=102\" target=\"_blank\">the state’s eight technical colleges</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XY3UTKVMNHTHKGDSJW4Q7JH7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646524,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The SmithGroup found there’s been up to 25% student growth at<b> </b>Utah technical colleges per year for the past five years — about five times more than<b> </b>traditional universities — but there’s far less available space.","type":"text"},{"_id":"II4MQZX5BFHSRMC3HRCXFLSH4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646525,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"In the three-year forecast from the SmithGroup, four of Utah’s eight technical schools didn’t have the minimum space needed to teach specialized programs, such as mechanics or cosmetology. And overall, there was a total deficit among those schools of 100,000 square feet — about the size of 100 average houses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3IFR2UC2JNDPDJEZ27DI5TB4XY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646527,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"State-approved and funded construction projects should alleviate the needs of two schools — <a href=\"https://www.davistech.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Technical College</a> and <a href=\"https://tooeletech.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Tooele Technical College</a> — but not the others.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEI25KXW7BCOLKAONBDQAU6KD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646528,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"A few legislators shook their heads at that. This year, they’ve been holding up technical schools as a beacon of success for post-secondary education, graduating students faster and landing them in jobs quickly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VGSG6HUSERGSJAQ6LNHFJRWMLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646529,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"But the space deficits for the schools persist in both five-year and 10-year projections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JFFUPQH6QFFR3IMX6A4UCIZL2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646530,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Three technical schools — <a href=\"https://stech.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Southwest Technical College</a>, <a href=\"https://mtec.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Mountainland Technical College</a> and <a href=\"https://btech.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Bridgerland Technical College</a> — would not meet the maximum spaces needs for their programs by 2032, even with in-the-works buildings. 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The breakdown across the technical system shows 14% devoted to offices, 11.9% to classrooms and 56.8% for labs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZLX77X3IYFHJLD2OVQ3WCAFGXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739911731363,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That means direct student learning spaces account for nearly 69% of the real estate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DHOOR6V2ZNFQVNM75OKYVLGTDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646542,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The SmithGroup anticipates, too, that on-campus students at technical colleges will only increase. That’s because the learning model is designed to work better in-person.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FGV6MDJSWFALLAUM5ECHJF4YRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739816646543,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"There are about 20,000 students total across the technical schools in the state; most don’t attend full-time. Growth will also slow there, as it will with traditional colleges, in the next 10 years — unless, technical college presidents say, they have more space to admit interested students and buck the forecast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"INVJM65PW5C27MADXR5VHBP4R4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740368056770,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Data problems and bias concerns","level":2,"type":"header"},{"_id":"BI23CB4EYBHY3GKO6P5HK5QDJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067152,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Some of the presidents at Utah’s traditional colleges and universities are not happy with the SmithGroup report.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5CZYNL3I5EUDHCYZFJ4S3GPBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067153,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"They believe flaws in the metrics and data collection paint them in a more unflattering light than is accurate. In a tense November confrontation, Randall, the U.’s president, called the study biased during a Utah System of Higher Education meeting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XTWK2SMR2RAGBN2X76DUCLI2MM","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/Uk0ZixQVMStz0kh_z6NIUBx0C30=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/XTWK2SMR2RAGBN2X76DUCLI2MM.JPG","galleries":[],"ingestionMethod":"manual","iptc_job_identifier":"UTSAC","iptc_title":"STAFF","mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"Campus Office UofU 20257.JPG","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/XTWK2SMR2RAGBN2X76DUCLI2MM.JPG","owner":"fkjolseth@sltrib.com","proxyUrl":"/resizer/Uk0ZixQVMStz0kh_z6NIUBx0C30=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/XTWK2SMR2RAGBN2X76DUCLI2MM.JPG","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/Uk0ZixQVMStz0kh_z6NIUBx0C30=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/XTWK2SMR2RAGBN2X76DUCLI2MM.JPG","restricted":false,"takenOn":"2025-02-04T21:49:31Z","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/xZY9K3aZVwOFUDSrNiiKmSc9nWI=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/XTWK2SMR2RAGBN2X76DUCLI2MM.JPG","usage_instructions":"Deseret News OUT, KSL OUT, KUTV OUT, KTVX OUT","version":0,"template_id":335,"_id":"M4L77ESP5VHENCKJ4RQF2YFI7U","comments":[]},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"c9b484f4f6537fd9895089d385a04eef01b91712ceca83fae723260192758891"},"caption":"(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Park building on the University of Utah campus, Tuesday, Feb. 4. 2025.","copyright":"© Francisco Kjolseth 2025","created_date":"2025-02-05T04:55:43Z","credits":{"affiliation":[{"name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author"}],"by":[{"byline":"Francisco Kjolseth","name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author"}]},"height":1951,"image_type":"photograph","last_updated_date":"2025-02-05T04:55:43Z","licensable":false,"owner":{"id":"sltrib","sponsored":false},"slug":"CAMPUSOFFICESPACE.02xx25","source":{"additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"},"edit_url":"","system":"photo center"},"status":"","subtitle":"","taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/XTWK2SMR2RAGBN2X76DUCLI2MM.JPG","version":"0.10.9","width":2800,"syndication":{"external_distribution":false,"search":false},"creditIPTC":"Francisco Kjolseth"},{"_id":"RH5LE2SH55HG7LG75MKPAG5PEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067155,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Some of the spaces on his campus, Randall said, have multiple uses — such as labs that are also used as classrooms or offices. The study didn’t account for that. He also raised an issue with the SmithGroup not factoring in the age and suitability of buildings — including some that might need to be torn down or renovated. He doesn’t consider that bloat and doesn’t want state lawmakers to believe it is either.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHM2PHNLAVEQFDWC5V3G42ZLFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067157,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2025/02/06/utah-state-president-elizabeth/\" target=\"_blank\">Outgoing Utah State President</a> Elizabeth “Betsy” Cantwell joined in support of Randall, noting that some of the buildings on her campus are more than 100 years old. <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2019/03/27/utah-valley-university/\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Valley University</a> President Astrid Tuminez also voiced her concerns with “how problematic the data collection was.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABYP3S4FNVG2TOI6SL6U7FEYQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067158,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Markley, with the SmithGroup, acknowledged there wasn’t a code for spaces that double in use, but he said that wouldn’t apply to much of any campus in the state and likely wouldn’t change the numbers significantly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5P5EUQ334ZA7VEXFOJCEECM7AE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067159,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“I wouldn’t say it’s biased,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICD43S7N2RCQ3GQGD6KQYRLLXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067160,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Randall later added more in a statement to The Salt Lake Tribune: “Our space needs are unique. Using a one-size-fits-all methodology to analyze and compare the university’s space use with a community college or tech school results in obvious oversights.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3DWHCQ74YJGWPCJICQF33YKY2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067161,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"He also said he doesn’t feel the study factored in the U.’s goals for growth, including reaching a student body of 45,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QY3Q5SQVOVCALK37YYS2BVYL6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1739832465288,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The report said the U. would have the biggest surplus of any school, with 546,000 unnecessary square feet and an additional 246,000 in the pipeline to be built by 2032. Even adding students at the rate Randall would like to see, though, wouldn’t entirely eliminate that excess.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OTGVM6CTZNAO5EY6AXVKFS55DI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067162,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The Utah System of Higher Education had a second meeting about the SmithGroup report in January where members again pressed back against the findings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EHKCDZ2Q2FHNZNZ7SJJVTWYBGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067163,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Nate Talley, the chief financial officer for the system, said the group’s state enrollment projections are “materially different” from those from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. While there’s a decline in the college population in both, he said, it’s less steep with the institute’s data.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZ7ITVIXY5GFJJMSS2XCK2HTVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067164,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The U., for instance, projects that it will have 27,904 students attending classes on campus in 2032. The SmithGroup said it would have 23,597. That’s a difference of 4,307 and makes a “significant impact” on the need for space, Talley said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5UMYATGJNH45FHFBTKGN234XA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739911731381,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"But he also confirmed there would still be a surplus of space at the U.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QK7VMQCO2RHRBIYCH3S3OPLPWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067166,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Using the different set of enrollment numbers, though, Talley found that Utah Valley University and Utah Tech University would have space deficits by 2032.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZQ6RJLZVBZGSNJZ6ENY44CZ76A","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067167,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Because of that, <a href=\"https://ushe.edu/ushe-staff/geoffrey-landward/\" target=\"_blank\">Geoff Landward, the commissioner over the system,</a> issued a memo saying the report should be “treated with a high degree of uncertainty.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AMHUTIY3CVBF5LIKIPRDMNUYZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740368056787,"comments":[]},"content":"<p style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"> <a title=\"View Commissioner memo on SmithGroup campus space analysis on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/829276171/Commissioner-memo-on-SmithGroup-campus-space-analysis#from_embed\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >Commissioner memo on SmithGroup campus space analysis</a> by <a title=\"View Courtney's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/user/331034938/Courtney#from_embed\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >Courtney</a> on Scribd</p><iframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Commissioner memo on SmithGroup campus space analysis\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/829276171/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-gy4elb4pcAKbix59HKTm\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_55695\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"F3BWP7GOKZCNHF5B734O3KNDRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067169,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Institutions here, Landward said, are already working on different strategies to try to avoid enrollment drops. That includes, for example, enrolling older, nontraditional students.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I4KZQVZMBZFIVJM5EXFVXPVVSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067170,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“We’re not going to ignore the report because of the errors,” he still asserted. Colleges and universities in the state should still look at the numbers and take them seriously, Landward added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T44QIQ5FWFEIXLXAUREA2VPYPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067171,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"For its part, the SmithGroup also had frustrations working with the state’s schools to collect data — and wrote extensively about that in its report.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45IXKHYDM5DWPOUC2IC27JBXY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739911731388,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"There’s supposed to be a unified coding system that schools use to report such data. But the SmithGroup found there wasn’t much guidance, and most of the numbers provided by universities and colleges differed widely from what the group found when it looked at buildings and blueprints.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKRINX3ZDZHRJLDW5U4VOR5F4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067175,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The University of Utah, for instance, reported having 277 classrooms with 17,828 seats. But the SmithGroup could only confirm 240 classrooms and 16,254 seats.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4ZAIFRGYJHI7NGBBEYFEOSBPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740368056793,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"What does the report recommend happen next?","level":2,"type":"header"},{"_id":"62KJ4EJBSNADBHJOI6L55WTYHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067178,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Compared to other states, the SmithGroup found that schools here fall short in almost every metric.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOXYFBPHWRBPJI5EC4MXLRTIDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067179,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"USU and Utah Tech University, for instance, met the state’s “room utilization”<b> </b>rate, which measures how many hours a classroom is scheduled for use. They’re supposed to be used for at least 33.75 hours of instruction a week, according to Utah System of Higher Education guidance. USU was at 36.9 hours, and Utah Tech was at 38.2 hours.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AX3M6XYHA5BFJIH6N37OVUENS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067180,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Every other school fell below. Weber State was the worst at 19.9 hours.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X24CGZQQUBDKHP3XS3QTRMFDVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067181,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Meanwhile, California State University pushes for 53 hours a week in its classrooms; Nevada, for all its institutions, is 65.3 hours.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5JXHMEBAAVBZDBMST4NQ6SRU7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067182,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"No one here is looking at which classrooms are used the least and how to fix that, like Nevada does, added Mathov, from the SmithGroup. And that’s not even addressing the office-space issue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIVN4GLIHBFADHZIFCX4KRYMVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067183,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Mathov said that Utah could be and should be collecting much more data to better assess how well it’s using its spaces and how much is unnecessary bloat. The firm recommended the state start doing more regular space audits and standardize the definitions for spaces to do those.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PWGHHNQY3VBVFOHYMTSDGRLFHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067184,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“We like to think of this as really a starting place,” Mathov added, “for conversation with the institutions.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EFXDSLJXSRAUJL5ZNHJ5FSJQVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1739822067185,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"If lawmakers continue with their push against higher education excess, it’ll likely be more than just a conversation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EXHYNRT7WFFTBMOHF2UO76PU5E","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/K8GLjPfrFBk7GUszloQLzAqGzkw=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/EXHYNRT7WFFTBMOHF2UO76PU5E.JPG","galleries":[],"ingestionMethod":"manual","iptc_job_identifier":"UTSAC","iptc_title":"STAFF","mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"Campus Office UofU 20253.JPG","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/EXHYNRT7WFFTBMOHF2UO76PU5E.JPG","owner":"fkjolseth@sltrib.com","proxyUrl":"/resizer/K8GLjPfrFBk7GUszloQLzAqGzkw=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/EXHYNRT7WFFTBMOHF2UO76PU5E.JPG","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/K8GLjPfrFBk7GUszloQLzAqGzkw=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/EXHYNRT7WFFTBMOHF2UO76PU5E.JPG","restricted":false,"takenOn":"2025-02-04T21:06:37Z","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/BSuH_RR4wPL2oB9tURBORmR_LIY=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/EXHYNRT7WFFTBMOHF2UO76PU5E.JPG","usage_instructions":"Deseret News OUT, KSL OUT, KUTV OUT, KTVX OUT","version":0,"template_id":335,"_id":"QFGLK4Z52JCZ7PINBIBSJOOAFI","comments":[]},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"d60f68d862b377d4dce3b45d77c4f79276a1519485758defed9c038966559183"},"caption":"(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building on the University of Utah campus, Tuesday, Feb. 4. 2025.","copyright":"© Francisco Kjolseth 2025","created_date":"2025-02-05T04:55:43Z","credits":{"affiliation":[{"name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author"}],"by":[{"byline":"Francisco Kjolseth","name":"Francisco Kjolseth","type":"author"}]},"height":1640,"image_type":"photograph","last_updated_date":"2025-02-05T04:55:43Z","licensable":false,"owner":{"id":"sltrib"},"slug":"CAMPUSOFFICESPACE.02xx25","source":{"additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"},"edit_url":"","system":"photo center"},"status":"","subtitle":"","taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/EXHYNRT7WFFTBMOHF2UO76PU5E.JPG","version":"0.10.9","width":2800,"syndication":{"external_distribution":"","search":""}}],"created_date":"2025-02-10T18:03:59.949Z","credits":{"by":[{"_id":"ctanner","type":"author","version":"0.5.8","name":"Courtney Tanner","image":{"url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/sltrib/55cb4bf0-b0ea-4d2d-ac3a-2e38f3c94c48.png","version":"0.5.8"},"description":"Courtney is a reporter at The Tribune, where she has worked since May 2016. 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Así es como se crea una comunidad”."},{"_id":"5R3P547XYNGCRHSAWLXNLJXBQM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"El café en estas reuniones, agregó Guerrero, de 27 años, “simplemente sabe un poco más dulce”."},{"_id":"KUF2UTJYVJFEBGLRJMC6FXX6UQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Azúcar Café, ubicado en 2843 S. 5600 West, se unió a la escena de West Valley hace más de tres años, trayendo bebidas y productos de inspiración mexicana al extremo occidental del lado oeste del condado de Salt Lake."},{"_id":"EKXXFA6CQ5EHZCYWF7GOD5UAVQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"El café, ubicado entre cadenas de café y locales de comida rápida, ha traído más que deliciosas delicias de inspiración mexicana. 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Por otro lado, Guerrero reservaba las noches hasta tarde para preparar los ingredientes para el negocio paralelo de su madre como tamalera."},{"_id":"FME5K44KEZCTJA23DDIMTAPSUY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Incluso sus primeras salidas como pareja las pasaron repartiendo los tamales rellenos de salsa de la familia Guerrero en el condado de Salt Lake y Park City en las mañanas de los fines de semana."},{"_id":"22JSRZN7URGDJNPOHB5NNZVWY4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"La comida, dijo Sánchez, mantuvo un “techo sobre nuestras cabezas”."},{"_id":"K35JN6RDM5B7DL6VPQYUVY3AZY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Pero aunque crecieron con comida, abrir Azúcar no era un camino que Sánchez o Guerrero —o sus padres inmigrantes— inicialmente imaginaron."},{"_id":"BPJYUNT67JGGVFA3TSJENEGLTI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“Quería ver algo que me representara más”, dijo Sánchez, quien dejó su trabajo corporativo de nueve a cinco para comenzar Azúcar con Guerrero. “Al tomar el riesgo, tenía el objetivo en el fondo de mi cabeza de que iba a tener un impacto”."},{"owner":{"id":"sltrib"},"copyright":"Copyright 2024 The Salt Lake Tribune. 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Guerrero sirve trago tras trago de espressos que le dejan manchas en las manos. Sánchez, en la caja registradora del café, conversa con los clientes con destreza mientras esperan sus bebidas."},{"_id":"EZNGTEN3VJBLFC5MPYEVVIYUMU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Cada miembro del equipo de Azúcar tiene sus puntos fuertes, dijo Guerrero. Su elemento es su creatividad: elaborar las bebidas y la mercancía de la tienda como directora creativa."},{"_id":"WJIMV7OXRFGFNIDDCKMSCXZYBA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"El café con leche Gansito, un moca que juega con las notas de fresa y crema del pastel mexicano, fue la primera bebida que Guerrero preparó para Azúcar Cafe."},{"_id":"ROTLT6XL5FGQNMXIYPBX4VQX3M","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"La delicia también es una de las favoritas de Guerrero. Guerrero dijo que su gusto por lo dulce le vino de su madre, porque los Gansitos eran el antojo de su mamá durante el embarazo de su hija."},{"_id":"YSE7X4LRKFGOXLAMG4NEPQTEQM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“La mayoría de estas bebidas están hechas en base a lo que me gusta en mi pequeño mundo”, dijo Guerrero, riendo mientras miraba el menú de Azúcar. Otras bebidas se basan en su experiencia, dijo, como el capuchino de Azúcar (un café de soya con vainilla, el café que Guerrero pide “constantemente”) y el tiramisú con leche (que la mamá de Guerrero “siempre pide” cuando sale a comer)."},{"_id":"QSECIFWL4ZGSVAOAQKETP4M43M","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“Todo”, dijo Guerrero, “puede que no sea mexicano, pero yo soy mexicana y está dentro de mi experiencia mexicana”."},{"_id":"NZZDHTKJKVBMVHZA3QOCJGFMLE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Es un toque “chicano”, dijo otra barista mientras pasaba por Guerrero en la cocina de la parte trasera de la casa de Azúcar."},{"owner":{"id":"sltrib"},"copyright":"Copyright 2024 The Salt Lake Tribune. 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El café de olla se sirve tradicionalmente caliente, pero Azúcar también lo sirve frío, helado, con una capa de espuma fría de vainilla encima."},{"_id":"ANPDHU5ZQZDRJFRBFSS5EQQANQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Para Yasmine Ruiz, una clienta habitual de la tienda que se crió en West Valley City, Azúcar es una personificación de su identidad como mexicoamericana."},{"_id":"MXDWVGW4RVG7BAVZAIN3IX33FY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“Nuestra cultura está siendo representada”, dijo Ruiz, de 27 años. “No es 100% auténtico. 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Nacida y criada en el suburbio del lado oeste, Mulato dijo que Azcúar trajo “algo local” al espacio comercializado de West Valley."},{"_id":"IUH6QW6RM5HHHGLJCLS2XJH63U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“Eso es lo que faltaba”, dijo Mulato. “Un sentido de comunidad”."},{"_id":"S66RS4TZURBZHM5H2VBTU6IA5U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"Una interacción reciente con Sánchez consolidó la pertenencia de María Andrea Mora a la tienda."},{"_id":"3AOAGXAXFZERPHTBWB2UUJQBQI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“Sonaste muy mexicana”, le dijo Sánchez en broma a Mora, una barista que es de Colombia, en español. "},{"_id":"Q5BLWZWXIFE23CE2VAFZSNWFUY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"“En ese momento, me sentí muy feliz”, dijo Mora en español. Cuando se mudó a Utah, dijo que dejó atrás a amigos y familiares en su país natal. Trabajar en Azúcar, dijo, la ayudó a darse cuenta de que podía “tener amigos” y una “vida estable” en su nuevo hogar."},{"_id":"X6U23ZUIINF4JGREM4U6X2L5BU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[]},"type":"text","content":"En Azúcar, no hay barreras lingüísticas para los residentes hispanohablantes del Valle Oeste, ya que todos los baristas hablan español e inglés."},{"owner":{"id":"sltrib"},"copyright":"Copyright 2024 The Salt Lake Tribune. 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Hontz said most of the development is planned for that land. Adding these 1,600 acres would allow the ski area and county officials, Hontz said, to “have all of that ownership under one plan and one conversation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6W6VH5KOCZDI7OE7RSIQKLZX3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853038,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"She added that because most of the homes are expected to be second homes, they would qualify as “seasonal cabins.” The resort, therefore, could still build them without the rezone. The difference is that they would be spread out across the entire 1,600 acres, she said, instead of concentrated into a 97-acre swath as planned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GOIV2P7EVNH4NIJOIFXCEY7UAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853039,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“You’d pretty much sprawl across the top of the mountain,” she said in a phone interview with The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday, “because you’re required to, not necessarily because you want to.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VGMRV2ZQBDXZJPGBQNMGKINDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853040,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Hotels, corporate retreats and retail are not allowed under the current zoning, however. 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Another cluster is in the southeast corner of the resort, between Valhalla and Raintree and also at the top of the Raintree lift. Anderson said the new rezone could allow for denser development in those areas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7FHATHDZBD3RBFHFXAXNSHHIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853042,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain stands as the largest ski area in North America with 12,850 skiable acres (though it is second to Park City Mountain in the United States in terms of lift-accessed terrain). The sprawling resort straddles both Cache and Weber counties. In 2015, Weber County <a href=\"https://www.webercountyutah.gov/commission/documents/uploads/Overlook%20at%20Powder%20Mountain.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rezoned more than 6,000 acres</a> of Powder Mountain to allow for commercial development similar to what the ski area is requesting in Cache County.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBFWPQLSYRCDTIUM47G7VCXWTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853044,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Cache County is the eighth smallest of the state’s 29 counties by size with 750,666 acres, according to the Geographic Information Systems database. The total area Powder Mountain is asking to be zoned as Resort Recreation accounts for .66% of the county’s total acreage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LW4AINUQZBGJ7LD5UGCCXQBBUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853045,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"With more than 100 people per square mile, though, Cache County has also been <a href=\"https://ibis.utah.gov/ibisph-view/pdf/resource/CountyClassificationsInfo.pdf\">designated one of Utah’s six “urban counties”</a> by the state’s public health service. And it is <a href=\"https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/utah/fastest-growing\">among the fastest growing</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXULLYDX5RA6NGZKXM3HKMKBOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853046,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The Cache County General Plan was created to manage that growth, and the requested rezone is partially consistent with that plan. The area has been given a “Mountain Rural and Conservation” designation, the preferred uses for which include outdoor recreation and tourism. Secondary land uses include resorts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7E6SVQCGGZFG5MHX4CENC5RQ54","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853047,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“It can be very impactful,” said Daniel Dansie, an attorney who handles land use and zoning cases at the Salt Lake City based firm Kirton McConkie. “From the developer’s perspective, it’s impactful in a super positive way. They’re going to say that this is going to bring additional jobs, additional resources to the community. … [But] anytime you do a rezone, it can potentially have significant effects for the community because you’re changing the scope of what’s the permitted use on the property.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2V6FY4ZJLVAY7FW4YZKRAZ4EPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853048,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Hontz told the council that the project would pump $40,000 into Cache County in its first year. 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The resort presented its master plan to the Cache County Planning Commission in November, and that body will be tasked with deciding whether to approve the plan or require changes. The planning commission will also be responsible for reviewing any permit and variant development requests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4PMAWWW4RCU7ECVHJDPYJXJCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853050,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That’s why the council has not rushed to approve the rezone, Anderson, the interim county planning director, told the Tribune.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2P4L4S2XAFCILKQ4NN7WHSI74I","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853051,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“We’re taking steps to doubly review our own code,” Anderson said, “and make sure that we give Powder Mountain the due process they deserve, and that they maintain their rights to develop their land – that they should – but also protect the public interest.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKCKLUUNO5F4HKGCUW24Y6WMGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853052,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That’s a different tack than the council took last summer, when it agreed to allow the resort to <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/06/27/cache-county-fast-tracks-luxury/\" target=\"_blank\">bypass county zoning rules to build two lifts</a> in time for the 2024-25 ski season. The Lighting Ridge and Raintree lifts are not included in Powder Mountain’s current master plan and the council voted 4-3 to allow the resort to install them before its newly proposed master plan was granted approval.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OF5X3PRIRA67LV3MQJ24CWEQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853053,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain may ask for another exemption in the coming months. It has at least one new lift, to the Davenport area, slated for construction this summer. 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Under that zoning, Powder Mountain could build more densely in some areas while keeping the rest mostly rugged, according to Brooke Hontz, the resort’s chief development and construction officer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPKYXXO5ANESJFGXPVCYFZVQP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853036,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Both zoning designations allow for the installation and operation of ski lifts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WTBPYJLCYREGBHR43JG3YVTPFQ","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/UEDKIYMB26cGohMfR4XpBaN_bC8=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/WTBPYJLCYREGBHR43JG3YVTPFQ.jpg","galleries":[],"ingestionMethod":"manual","mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"POWMOWREZONE_021125.jpg","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/WTBPYJLCYREGBHR43JG3YVTPFQ.jpg","owner":"ccherrington@sltrib.com","proxyUrl":"/resizer/UEDKIYMB26cGohMfR4XpBaN_bC8=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/WTBPYJLCYREGBHR43JG3YVTPFQ.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/UEDKIYMB26cGohMfR4XpBaN_bC8=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/WTBPYJLCYREGBHR43JG3YVTPFQ.jpg","restricted":false,"thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/rVO3WB-gsFWKD4ykWS2nxMMUDgs=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/WTBPYJLCYREGBHR43JG3YVTPFQ.jpg","usage_instructions":"POWMOWREZONE_021125","version":0,"template_id":335,"_id":"SUNGAF3FCFFJVAF33YLGH36FC4","comments":[]},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"ec796ea6f31e0a23cefcbee74ab43b95721ea199002afa6f14f2a3dcd10ca011"},"caption":"(Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)","created_date":"2025-02-12T23:06:53Z","credits":{"affiliation":[]},"height":1086,"image_type":"photograph","last_updated_date":"2025-02-12T23:06:53Z","licensable":false,"owner":{"id":"sltrib","sponsored":false},"source":{"additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"},"edit_url":"https://sltrib.arcpublishing.com/photo/WTBPYJLCYREGBHR43JG3YVTPFQ","system":"photo center"},"status":"","subtitle":"","taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/WTBPYJLCYREGBHR43JG3YVTPFQ.jpg","version":"0.10.9","width":1137,"syndication":{"external_distribution":false,"search":false}},{"_id":"FD3G3PWRXBAMPNIJQMHJ63JODM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853037,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"In addition to the land it is looking to rezone, Powder Mountain already has 3,580 acres in Cache County that were designated as Resort Recreation during the 2001-02 ski season. Hontz said most of the development is planned for that land. Adding these 1,600 acres would allow the ski area and county officials, Hontz said, to “have all of that ownership under one plan and one conversation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6W6VH5KOCZDI7OE7RSIQKLZX3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853038,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"She added that because most of the homes are expected to be second homes, they would qualify as “seasonal cabins.” The resort, therefore, could still build them without the rezone. The difference is that they would be spread out across the entire 1,600 acres, she said, instead of concentrated into a 97-acre swath as planned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GOIV2P7EVNH4NIJOIFXCEY7UAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853039,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“You’d pretty much sprawl across the top of the mountain,” she said in a phone interview with The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday, “because you’re required to, not necessarily because you want to.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VGMRV2ZQBDXZJPGBQNMGKINDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853040,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Hotels, corporate retreats and retail are not allowed under the current zoning, however. Hontz said Powder Mountain does not currently have plans to build any of that on the 1,600-acre parcel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7FHATHDZBD3RBFHFXAXNSHHIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853042,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“There’s no multi-family [residences] or hotel planned within the master plan of the rezone area,” she told the Tribune. “It’s all in the existing area that’s already rezoned.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/KXqTo565HUyZepaaW_iBpvM_bhE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","galleries":[],"ingestionMethod":"manual","keywords":[""],"mime_type":"image/jpeg","originalName":"231209_PowderMountain_Timberline_OpeningDay_0132.jpg","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/sltrib/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","owner":"jjag@sltrib.com","proxyUrl":"/resizer/KXqTo565HUyZepaaW_iBpvM_bhE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/KXqTo565HUyZepaaW_iBpvM_bhE=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","restricted":false,"takenOn":"2023-12-08T23:10:00Z","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/WQjopNN-6H6oUvcbohGI9rj5Pf0=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-sltrib/public/FFT52XIX7NGAFPTR7NBDR7225I.jpg","version":6,"template_id":335,"_id":"SSZVC5ZJTJHVPF3XYWY3QNHQTE","comments":[]},"address":{},"auth":{"1":"160024ed81d6c38994aa4226b29676bd5c5967b23a8b28b1d145b2a98476d1bb"},"caption":"(Tristan Sadler | Powder Mountain) Skiers and snowboarders take a slow ride up the Timberline lift during opening weekend at Powder Mountain on Dec. 9, 2023. 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Another cluster is in the southeast corner of the resort, between Valhalla and Raintree and also at the top of the Raintree lift. Anderson said the new rezone could allow for denser development in those areas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7FHATHDZBD3RBFHFXAXNSHHIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853042,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain stands as the largest ski area in North America with 12,850 skiable acres (though it is second to Park City Mountain in the United States in terms of lift-accessed terrain). The sprawling resort straddles both Cache and Weber counties. In 2015, Weber County <a href=\"https://www.webercountyutah.gov/commission/documents/uploads/Overlook%20at%20Powder%20Mountain.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rezoned more than 6,000 acres</a> of Powder Mountain to allow for commercial development similar to what the ski area is requesting in Cache County.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBFWPQLSYRCDTIUM47G7VCXWTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853044,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Cache County is the eighth smallest of the state’s 29 counties by size with 750,666 acres, according to the Geographic Information Systems database. The total area Powder Mountain is asking to be zoned as Resort Recreation accounts for .66% of the county’s total acreage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LW4AINUQZBGJ7LD5UGCCXQBBUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853045,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"With more than 100 people per square mile, though, Cache County has also been <a href=\"https://ibis.utah.gov/ibisph-view/pdf/resource/CountyClassificationsInfo.pdf\">designated one of Utah’s six “urban counties”</a> by the state’s public health service. And it is <a href=\"https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-counties/utah/fastest-growing\">among the fastest growing</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AXULLYDX5RA6NGZKXM3HKMKBOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853046,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"The Cache County General Plan was created to manage that growth, and the requested rezone is partially consistent with that plan. The area has been given a “Mountain Rural and Conservation” designation, the preferred uses for which include outdoor recreation and tourism. Secondary land uses include resorts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7E6SVQCGGZFG5MHX4CENC5RQ54","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853047,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“It can be very impactful,” said Daniel Dansie, an attorney who handles land use and zoning cases at the Salt Lake City based firm Kirton McConkie. “From the developer’s perspective, it’s impactful in a super positive way. They’re going to say that this is going to bring additional jobs, additional resources to the community. … [But] anytime you do a rezone, it can potentially have significant effects for the community because you’re changing the scope of what’s the permitted use on the property.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2V6FY4ZJLVAY7FW4YZKRAZ4EPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853048,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Hontz told the council that the project would pump $40,000 into Cache County in its first year. 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The resort presented its master plan to the Cache County Planning Commission in November, and that body will be tasked with deciding whether to approve the plan or require changes. The planning commission will also be responsible for reviewing any permit and variant development requests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4PMAWWW4RCU7ECVHJDPYJXJCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853050,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That’s why the council has not rushed to approve the rezone, Anderson, the interim county planning director, told the Tribune.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2P4L4S2XAFCILKQ4NN7WHSI74I","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853051,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“We’re taking steps to doubly review our own code,” Anderson said, “and make sure that we give Powder Mountain the due process they deserve, and that they maintain their rights to develop their land – that they should – but also protect the public interest.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKCKLUUNO5F4HKGCUW24Y6WMGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853052,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"That’s a different tack than the council took last summer, when it agreed to allow the resort to <a href=\"https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/06/27/cache-county-fast-tracks-luxury/\" target=\"_blank\">bypass county zoning rules to build two lifts</a> in time for the 2024-25 ski season. The Lighting Ridge and Raintree lifts are not included in Powder Mountain’s current master plan and the council voted 4-3 to allow the resort to install them before its newly proposed master plan was granted approval.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OF5X3PRIRA67LV3MQJ24CWEQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853053,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain may ask for another exemption in the coming months. It has at least one new lift, to the Davenport area, slated for construction this summer. That lift is not on the resort’s current master plan and a decision by the planning commission on that proposal has been delayed while the council mulls the rezone request.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JT2TW7A37JFEREBRWFXIDANGZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853054,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Powder Mountain also hopes to replace its 1990s-era on-mountain maintenance facility, Hontz said, as well as build more hiking and biking trails during the warmer months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VVXQRZ7OSVDT7AH72MOLJAGRNM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853055,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"Hontz said the county still has plenty of guardrails in place to make the development fit its vision.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IEUSZPWTHNFOLO2KB63O26IXUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853056,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"“Even though the use is allowed, you can’t just go do it wherever you want to,” she said. “You have to go indicate where you want things, get them approved, and then come back with site-specific development plans if they’re things like commercial uses, and then pull a building permit. 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Hontz said most of the development is planned for that land. Adding these 1,600 acres would allow the ski area and county officials, Hontz said, to “have all of that ownership under one plan and one conversation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6W6VH5KOCZDI7OE7RSIQKLZX3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1740441853038,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"She added that because most of the homes are expected to be second homes, they would qualify as “seasonal cabins.” The resort, therefore, could still build them without the rezone. 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The resort presented its master plan to the Cache County Planning Commission in November, and that body will be tasked with deciding whether to approve the plan or require changes. 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