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Orem Mayor Dave Young frames re-election bid around stopping high-density housing and BRT-driven zoning
Summary
Mayor Dave Young, running for another and what he says will be his final term, told a radio interviewer he entered office to halt a wave of high-density development he says has already added thousands of rental units, and he opposes transit-oriented zoning tied to bus rapid transit that he says would mandate more density.
Mayor Dave Young said he is running for a final term to prevent a return to what he described as "failed policies" that brought heavy apartment development to Orem.
Young told host Brad Daw that Orem had taken in "about 3,800 units of high density" in the previous decade and that plans he encountered during his first term proposed "10,000 more." He said the city had reached a point where adding more dense rental housing would alter the community's character and increase traffic.
"You absolutely do" lose neighborhood character with more density, Young said. He…
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