Arts and Culture
• Create a "Metropolitan Cultural Plan," developed
annually and covering several years at a time. Foster genuine
commitments from political leaders to support the important linkages
among the arts, culture, and the health and quality of life of our
citizens.
• Require a percentage for art in all public construction projects.
• Promote diversity in the full range of its meanings. Build
audiences for diverse arts and cultural offerings available in the city.
Make laws prohibiting censorship and removal of public art.
• Assure that all arts and cultural events are accessible and
affordable to all members of the community. Create human-scale linkages
to cultural institutions, including walkways and bike paths.
• Enforce preservation strategies for buildings and neighborhoods.
Rehabilitate historic buildings for cultural uses wherever possible.
• Promote public education through links among artists, cultural
institutions, the school systems, the University of Utah, and by
expanding the public library system resources on art and culture.
• Build appropriate facilities and infrastructure in support of the
arts and culture, including public and private spaces equipped with
state-of the-art technologies; decentralized cultural institutions and
satellite facilities; greenspace for increased programming and audience
development in and around cultural facilities; and affordable live/work
spaces for the area’s artists and craftspeople.
• Promote the concept that Salt Lake City is a destination city for
arts and culture. Encourage airlines, hotels, and restaurants to create
arts and cultural tourist packages similar to those promoted in the ski
industry.
• Assist residents and visitors in their desire to participate with
our institutions and artists. Encourage location of new and expanding
cultural facilities along transit corridors, and work to create
extensions of established institutions.
• Coordinate marketing of all cultural activity with print media,
radio, and television. Expand existing Web calendar with real-time
events, criticism and review, ArtTix purchases, and so forth.
• Strengthen relationships among grantors and grantees by
clarifying the roles of each organization and avoiding duplication of
services.
• Encourage institutions and artists to collaborate and reach out
to neighborhoods with such tools as a "Jazzmobile,"
neighborhood starwatching, a Claymation bus, and the expansion of
"late-night" recreational programs to include arts and
cultural activites.
• Explore opportunities for area artists and cultural institutions
to leave multiple community legacies and infrastructure during and after
the 2002 Olympic Games.
Capital City
• Expand taxing authority for local governments.
• Distribute state tax revenues more equitably to cities where
revenues are collected.
Children, Families, and Social Services
• Create a Leadership Council with a specific city charter to
facilitate collaboration among, monitoring of, and improvements in
social service offerings in Salt Lake City.
• Encourage legislative and policy efforts to make the city and
state more family friendly by offering incentives to private
organizations that promulgate good wages, flexible hours, child-care
sites and other family-centered benefits.
• Offer education and social services to every child in Salt Lake
City, including quality prenatal care, early-childhood programs, and
continuing education opportunities
• Develop school- or community-based family and youth resource
centers in every neighborhood. Wherever possible, encourage private
partnerships to establish and run medical clinics and other social
services at these locations.
• Encourage clustering of services to promote efficiency. Establish
and evaluate pilot programs at locations like Lincoln Elementary and the
Sorenson Multicultural Center, where such partnerships are already
operating.
• Expand United Way’s "Success by Six" program and
analogous programs of proven effectiveness citywide.
• Encourage monitoring and evaluation of social service programs
for efficiency and effectiveness by objective university researchers.
Provide a means for results to be published and disseminated so that
business leaders, philanthropists, and government leaders will know
which programs are working and should be expanded.
• Work to strengthen the Information and Referral Center of the
Community Services Council. Create a central database on programs and
clients to encourage collaboration and efficiency by social service
providers. Assemble and widely distribute, in many languages, a
directory of available social and community services.
• Provide opportunities for all residents to have meaningful
volunteer experiences. Promote business mentoring programs for the
unemployed re-entering the work force and other citizens in need.
• Motivate and train young people to graduate from school, go to
work, and live productively in Salt Lake City.
Diversity
• Ensure that all residents feel they are an important part of our
community.
• Support community festivals and events that allow citizens to
interact.
• Design buildings and public places to reflect our diverse
cultural, ethnic, and religious heritage.
• Provide information about the benefits of diversity to our
community.
• Communicate in multiple languages and use international,
universal symbols.
• Support and encourage mixed-use development.
Economics
• Develop an "Economic Development Plan" to enhance the
city’s economic base.
• Encourage the construction of more downtown office space.
• Nurture and encourage small businesses and entrepreneurship.
Equalize tax incentives provided to businesses to assure the retention
of locally owned and operated businesses.
• Promote the travel, tourism, and hospitality industry in Salt
Lake City.
• Encourage and facilitate further LDS Church investment in
downtown Salt Lake City properties.
• Provide incentives to businesses to offer excellent wages and
benefits.
Natural Environment
• Advocate legislative changes to implement a regional, statewide
approach to controlling pollution—particularly air pollution from
automobiles.
• Encourage careful monitoring of pollution by source and provide
adequate staff to perform this monitoring
• Explain to the citizens the sources of pollution and the economic
benefits of pollution prevention for individuals, families, and
businesses.
• Adopt tax and other economic incentives for actions that reduce
the overload on the current, automobile-based transportation system and
encourage alternative modes of transit and more efficient, less
polluting use of automobiles.
• Conserve water, protect water quality, and preserve canyon
watersheds and wells through education efforts, reusing water, and
providing appropriate waste disposal services.
• Promote "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle," and reward
responsible materials management.
• Extend the life of the Solid Waste Management Facility
(landfill).
• Establish an Open Space Trust Fund to acquire and protect open
space in Salt Lake City.
• Emphasize natural features, native landscaping, and unifying
themes in developments.
• In all city gateways (West Downtown, Beck Street, Parley’s
Canyon, Emigration Canyon, State Street, and the Great Salt Lake),
strive to promote a good first impression of the city by protecting and
enhancing the views through appropriate landscaping, building and road
design and remodeling, and where possible, preservation of the natural
landscape.
• Working closely with all stakeholders, study and protect the
marshes and beaches of the Great Salt Lake. Manage growth to reduce
negative impacts on the Great Salt Lake and its wetlands while improving
the visitor infrastructure on the south shore.
Neighborhoods
• Provide neighborhood services, including retail businesses,
health care, recreation, social and community services, and cultural
amenities that can be reached by walking, bicycling, or using public
transit.
• Create a balanced approach to business incentives and zoning
ordinances that encourages small-scale commercial and business
activities.
• Maintain and improve infrastructure in all city neighborhoods.
• Encourage building designs that are human scale, promote
pedestrian traffic, facilitate pleasant interaction on the street, and
reflect cultural diversity.
• Promote civic responsibility, a sense of ownership, and
membership in the community by developing programs that allow citizens
to work together on community-based solutions to problems in their
neighborhoods. Expand programs like COOL Communities / Tree Utah and
Neighborhood Matching Grants designed to promote broader participation
in community-building activities.
• Encourage home ownership where possible and facilitate
cooperation between landlords and tenants toward the goal of universal
property maintenance and adherence to existing codes. Strengthen
enforcement efforts where necessary.
• Promote local efforts to improve public safety through crime and
drug-abuse prevention.
• Increase neighborhood commitments to providing sufficient open
space and greenspace by strengthening the Urban Forestry Program, using
and improving existing alleyways and parkways, and encouraging open
space preservation through incentives to owners of undeveloped land.
• Encourage emergency preparedness as suggested by the Emergency
Management Board, and strengthen the city’s commitment to seismic code
improvements.
Olympics
• The Futures Commission’s Special Subcommittee on the Olympics
began its work in September 1997. The subcommittee will issue
recommendations when it completes its work.
Public Safety
• Dedicate additional law enforcement resources to the regional
gang problem. Promote gang prevention programs.
• Support the new juvenile sentencing guidelines and the funding to
implement them.
• Provide at least six hundred secure beds for juvenile offenders.
• Find and promote innovative options for juvenile corrections.
• Expand adult correction facilities in Salt Lake County.
• Encourage neighborhood efforts to prevent crime.
• Involve residents and business owners in public safety programs.
• Expand graffiti removal programs.
• Use Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)
techniques to reduce crime in Salt Lake City.
Recreation
• Acquire park land, playing fields, and open space to meet the
6.25 acres per 1000 population standard promoted by the National
Recreation and Parks Association.
• Provide recreation amenities and programming to all citizens of
Salt Lake City.
• Provide recreation services to more residents by coordinating
city and county efforts.
• Identify and remedy recreation deficiencies using public and
private resources.
• Include open space areas in plans for developing large areas of
vacant land.
• Distribute information on facilities and programs to ensure
residents are aware of available opportunities.
Transportation
• Mitigate the negative economic impacts of I-15 (and I-80)
reconstruction on the city.
• Develop a multimodal transportation system that encourages
alternatives to cars, including walking, biking, and mass transit.
• Explore the use of alternative automotive fuels and the
development of an infrastructure to support them.
• Design streets that are pedestrian friendly and encourage
walking. Incorporate bike routes whenever possible.
• Include all transportation options in future plans by
coordinating the work of planning agencies.
• Foster public support for an integrated transportation system.
• Implement the city’s Transportation Master Plan of April 1996.
• Buy extra buses and revise schedules to accommodate evening and
weekend workers.
• Protect the Salt Lake City Airport from encroachment by
incompatible neighbors.
Urban Design
• Ensure that the city’s Design Statement is in all city master
plans and ensure that developers conform to or exceed all master plan
requirements.
• Promote excellence in all public works by providing design
workshops for decision makers in city, county, and state governments and
encouraging them to participate.
• Promote the design of homes and buildings that are universally
accessible. Encourage the adoption of "universal design"
standards.
• Design and orient buildings to make neighborhoods pedestrian
friendly.
• Develop higher density projects in new neighborhoods to provide
more affordable housing in the city.
• Coordinate the design and implementation of public improvements
to minimize the disruption to neighborhood residents.
• Use the West Downtown Gateway project as a model for innovative
urban design.
