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Phil Lyman urges transfer of federal land to boost housing, criticizes Great Salt Lake spending
Summary
On the Utah County Republican Party podcast, Phil Lyman, a candidate for governor, called for transferring federal and trust lands to expand housing supply, criticized a $40 million Great Salt Lake appropriation to environmental groups, and urged regulatory and code changes to lower construction costs.
Phil Lyman, a Republican candidate for governor, told the Utah County Republican Party podcast that transferring federal and state trust lands into local control could dramatically increase Utah's housing inventory and lower building costs. "The Bureau of Land Management owns a 150,000 acres inside city limits of various towns in Utah right now," Lyman said, adding that opening prime parcels and about "1,000,000 acres on the outskirts" could double available land for development and support homesteading-style pathways to homeownership.
Lyman also criticized what he described as an opaque distribution of a 2023 legislative appropriation. "The legislature allocated $40,000,000 to save the…
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