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WFRC government affairs manager summarizes 2025 legislative session: corridor preservation, transit and housing tools highlighted
Summary
WFRC staff reviewed key legislative outcomes including corridor preservation funding, a UDOT bond for an affordable housing grant program, changes to station-area planning reporting, and bills directing greater coordination between UDOT and local transit projects.
Miranda Jones Cox, government affairs manager for the Wasatch Front Regional Council, briefed the Regional Growth Committee on major outcomes from the 2025 Utah legislative session and highlighted items likely to affect regional transportation and land-use planning.
“This legislative session was maybe a little bit different than ones we've seen in years past,” Jones Cox said, noting a large volume of bills and a $30,800,000,000 state budget. She told committee members many recent policy tools and appropriations are building on prior sessions rather than creating an entirely new funding surge.
Jones Cox identified several appropriations and bills of note: - A $20,000,000 ongoing allocation from the Transportation Investment Fund to the corridor preservation fund for planning and land acquisition for future transportation projects. -…
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