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Residents press council to fund wildfire mitigation, traffic calming and trail expansion during FY26 budget hearing
Summary
At the council’s first FY26 budget public hearing, residents urged shifting funds away from a proposed downtown green-loop project toward wildfire mitigation in the Foothill Natural Area, and pressed for neighborhood traffic calming, trail expansion and protections for mature urban trees.
Dozens of residents and neighborhood representatives used the council’s first FY26 budget public hearing to press the city to shift priorities toward wildfire mitigation, neighborhood traffic calming, trail expansion and tree preservation.
Speakers during the consolidated hearing for budget ordinances G6–G20 included neighborhood residents, parents, students and community council representatives. Ian McCubbin asked the council to move $3 million proposed for a downtown “green loop” into a community wildfire protection plan and infrastructure for the 6,000-acre Foothill Natural Area and City Creek fireshed, citing high fire risk and heavy year-round trail use. McCubbin called attention to emergency-vehicle access and parking…
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