In the 1990s I was a young planner engaged in my first long-range planning efforts while working with my mentor John Fregonese. These included helping the Envision Utah Quality Growth Strategy effort that looked out to the distant year of…(wait for it)…2020. 2020 was the first established long rang horizon year of my young planning career. In the 2020 year of COVID-19 and the last year of Trump’s presidency, the Quality Growth Strategy’s celebration year has been partly lost in visibility. Back in the 1990s as we looked out to the year 2020 my colleagues and I had many hopes and expectations.
I think over the years the term “density” and even “multi-family” have come to have such negative connotations to so many people, there is an immediate knee-jerk reaction against them whenever they are proposed in most communities.
