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Show ____TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH/NATION Utah Has Reputation invited to show how the nonprofit partnership Envision Utah has built public support for growth planning duringthe past 2% years. And Envision Utah staffer D.J. As Good Planner Baxter took part in a panel dis- cussion on how to use maps and computer models to promote smart growth. @ Continued from A-1 Theattentionreflects a nation wide curiosity about Envision transit. All of it is meant to save tax dollars that traditionally have aided sprawl and increasedhigh- way traffic. “We can't afford the cost of sprawl. Wecan't afford the highways and sewers and schools and everything that goes with it,” Glendening said. “It takes state leadership to move people in a certain direction.” Leavitt, on the other hand, said Western polit especially in Utah,dictateaiesserstate role onethat includes education, incentives and voluntary coordina public attitudes about growth and build a consensusfor change. For smart-grewth advocates, it is a victory to have Utah embrace the issue at all. Leavitt is praised because he has backed the issue even though Utahns traditionally have valued property rights over planning regulations, said Jonathan Weiss, whowas Vice President Al Gore’s smart-growth adviser before joining the George Washington Uni versity Law School in August. Planning advocates view Republi- tion of city and county planning efforts. can Leavitt's support as a clue that curbing urban sprawl is a biparti. planning simply will not work,” “He has championed a process “Using the state as the unit of he said. “I believe the mantra of the 2ist century will be central coordination, local control.” The Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit research and education group advocating compact urban development, showcased Utah during the three-day Partners for poemnseuaueents Utah, which widely is seen as the largest-ever attempt to define Smart Growth Conferenceoutside SanDiego. Besides Leavitt, planning con- san issue,hesaid. ina state wherethese issues have not traditionally enjoyed sup- port,” Weiss said. It is appropriate for Utah to find its own strategy instead of mirroring Maryland's approach or adopting growth boundaries, such as thosein Portland, Ore., or Boulder, Colo., Weiss said. “There is not just one cookiecutter formula for how to promote sultant Peter Calthorpe was quality growth.” Crime their communities.” Plummets tioned the growth of community policing, expanded incarceration of criminals, crime prevention He and Blumstein also men- Throughout U.S. ® Continued from A-1 and anti-gun efforts by federal and local authorities. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno credited Clinton administration programs essor of criminaljustice at North- the Brady Act’s prevention of the sale of an estimated 400,000 fire- to put more police on the street, eastern University.“No one could havepredicted the drops would have beenthis deep.” As for explanations, experts cited aseries offederal, state and local anti-crime measures, a growing economy, the aging of baby boomers andthe decline of crack cocaine markets. But Fox also discerned “a reverse contagioneffect.” “Lawfulness is becoming the norm, and it’s contagious,” he said. es around the country are investing in crime programs as neverbefore. Rather than hid ing behind double-locked doors, citizens are getting involved in arms to felons and growing federal-state-local gun prosecu- tions. “But we cannot become complacent,” Reno said. Republicans credited measures they passed to lengthen prison sentences and pointed out the na- tion remains above its lowest crimeraies. Theonly discordant note in the FBI report was a i percent increase in murders in cities of more than1 million residents. But Fox and Blumstein said this tiny rise probably indicates that at somepoint crime reductionsbot- tom out at an irreducible minimum, Leavitt said Utah’s politics fa- vor local control over state man- Monday, November 22, 1999 alie) to Interstate 15 — Utah “There may be times when you have to use mandates, but you ought to exhaust every incentive before you do,” he said. “The essence of good leadership is knowing whenthose issues are mature and maybe acting little ahead, and re-use of urban industrial Calthorpe said Utah’s emphasis on changing zoning and planningpolicies at the local levelis as exceeding $30 million, finished to acceptstate controlyet. but not too much ahead.” ranked 38th in transportation planning. For community revitalization, including historic preservation land, Utah ranked 44th. Utah’s highest ranking — 18th — camein open-spaceprotection, taking into accountthestate’s $3 million open-space fund administered by the Quality Growth Com- mission. Maryland, with a fund sprawl, Heileson said. Leavitt made no apologies first. “It's funny how the governoris supporting and bragging about Envision Utah but he’s planning a including Leavitt’s proposal for the Legacy Highway running par. dates. That may change during many years of worseningtraffic congestion and lost open space, he said, but the public is not willing Thursday for Utah’s burgeoning| highway program. He said some stretches of freeway may double theirtraffic in the next decade. 120-mile freeway bypass,” said Marc Heileson, conservation organizerfor the Sierra Club's Utah “I ought to admit to you that we're building a whole lot of chapter. “He is planning for sprawl but using the rhetoric of roads, and wehaveto,” he told the audience. Portland, Milwaukee andall these wonderfulplaces. Still, the smart-growth advocates gave him a hero's welcome. Several questioners from the audience said they wish California Democratic Gov. Gray Davis were as visionary. “It’s like Bart Simpson saying he's leaderin school.” TheSierra Club supports Envi- sion Utah but believes the state should enactlaws te help contain workable as any strategy. Even Oregon. where the Portland area has a regional planning agency calied Metro, relies on support from localofficials and residents, hesaid, “If Metro were to act against public opinion, the officials at Metro would be voted out,” Calthorpesaid. But some argue Utah should do more. The Sierra Club, which has identified sprawl and lost open space as their top environmental sued a Solving Sprawl! report last month that ranked the state poorly on mostrelated issues. In land-use planning, Oregon rankedfirst for its 30-year-old mandate on city plans,its statewide growthstandards and Metro. b23409 Maryland ranked third, Utah was 45th. 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