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Magna presentation highlights school, large housing projects and new trail and intersection work

5508711 · July 30, 2025
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Summary

Magna City staff gave a community spotlight outlining recent and planned residential developments, the new Cypress High School opening next month, a reconfigured Cordero Drive intersection enabled by UDOT, and multiuse path and trail improvements intended to improve active-transportation access.

Jeff Miller, a planner with the Greater Salt Lake Municipal Services District, gave the Wasatch Front Regional Council a community update on development and transportation changes planned and under way in Magna City.

Miller said Magna's 2025 population is 30,637 and the city’s average household income is about $97,711 with a poverty rate of 8.55 percent. He noted that on May 1, 2024 Magna changed status from a metro township to a city and that beginning with the 2025 election the city will be governed by a mayor and five-member council. ‘‘This presentation will just be kind of a quick community spotlight on Magna City,’’ Miller said.

The nut graf: Magna is pursuing several large residential projects and roadway improvements timed with the new Cypress High School opening, while…

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