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WFRC seeks planner input to finalize 2025 Wasatch Choice land‑use vision map
Summary
WFRC staff asked city planners to submit clarifications to a draft 2025 Wasatch Choice land‑use map by an April deadline and outlined a planned city leadership review to build shared buy‑in before the long‑range transportation modeling step.
Tim Watkins of the Wasatch Front Regional Council briefed planners on next steps for the 2025 Wasatch Choice land‑use vision and invited city staff to review the draft mapping app before a leadership review process.
"If you haven't provided feedback yet in the comment app, mapping app, good news, we can give you until Friday to provide any clarifications or refinements," Tim said, urging planners to add annotations and polygons that explain local interpretations of workshop maps.
Watkins said the region is digitizing fall‑workshop inputs and using those comments to draft a future land‑use map that will feed household and job forecasts for the travel demand model. He described the next steps: finalize planner comments, circulate a draft vision map to workshop invitees for a city leadership review (planning commission, council and department heads), and then use the updated land‑use vision to inform transportation scenario development and the 2027–2055 regional transportation plan update.
Watkins and other WFRC staff noted the mapping exercise focuses on a longer time horizon than typical municipal general plans—out to about 2055—and is meant to surface ideas communities want to explore rather than to impose immediate policy changes. He asked planners to consider whether the TAC should review all screened projects or only system‑level proposals and invited suggestions for formats to collect a unified city leadership response by an early‑April target (April 4 was discussed as an initial target date for city leadership comments).
Planners in the meeting underscored the importance of staff review and clarified that WFRC will circulate draft population and employment forecasts from the Gardner Policy Institute at the county level and then distribute draft TAZ‑level numbers for local review later in spring and summer. WFRC staff said those forecasts will be used in a real‑estate market model that in turn updates the travel demand model.
Watkins and participants agreed that a city leadership review — coordinated locally by planners and supported by WFRC — is intended to improve transparency and regional coordination before the fall 2025 workshop on transportation scenarios.
WFRC staff posted the mapping app link in chat during the meeting and offered follow‑up support for jurisdictions that want staff assistance organizing leadership reviews.
