HUD REGIONAL PLANNING GRANT
Salt Lake County, Utah, Prime Contractor
Metropolitan Research Center at the University of Utah, subcontractor
SUMMARY
This is an outline of work products generated by the Metropolitan Research Center at the
University of Utah pursuant to a HUD Regional Planning Grant over the period January 1, 2011
through December 31, 2013. The overall $5 million grant was provided to Salt Lake County as
the prime contractor of which the Metropolitan Research Center received nearly $1.5 million. All
products were generated on time and on budget.
Envision Tomorrow Plus (ET+)
A key element of our work entailed working with Fregonese Associates and Envision Utah to
upgrade current apps and then add many more. While we were involved in improving virtually
all the apps currently in ET+, we developed these new ones:
Return Investment (ROI)
Building Energy Consumption
7D Transportation
Household Travel Effects
Mixed-use Development Travel Effects
Housing + Transportation + Energy (H+T+E) Costs
Air Quality and Climate Impacts
Fiscal Impacts
Employment Growth
Public Health
Development Capital
Redevelopment Timing
Water Consumption
Transportation Safety
Jobs-Housing Balance
Amenities
Parking Demand
We also generated an extensive user's guide to ET+ which was compiled and written by Keuntae
Kim, one of our doctoral students.
Demographic and Development Projections
Another significant product included coordinating with RCLCO to project future households and
associated housing demand. This led to a formal report prepared by RCLCO.
Our projection work also included preparation of an extensive database for the period 2010-2025
and then to 2040 for each Wasatch Front county projecting such variables as:
Population
White Non-Hispanic Population
New Majority Population
Population 65+
Dependency ratios
Households
Households by type (with and without children, and singles)
Households by householder age (<35, 35-64, 65+)
Tenure demand
Housing unit inventory for 2010 and attrition to 2015 and 2040
Total new housing unit demand
Jobs by major economic sector (industrial, office/service, retail, institutional, total)
Nonresidential space inventory for 2010 and attrition to 2015 and 2040
Total new nonresidential space demand
Database Development
Our work included developing a very large number of databases. We may have more integrated
databases than any other planning and policy research center in the nation. An incomplete list
includes these:
Arts and Economic Prosperity
Amenity
Census
Census_BuildingPermits
Census_CountyBusinessPatterns
Costar
Crosswalk
CTOD
CTPP
EPA\Air_Data
EPA\Infill Permitting
EPA\Smart Location
Geolytics
Gov_Finance
H+T+E
InfoGroup_Business
Infogroup_HH
Intersections
LED
NAVTEQ
NLCD
Places Rated
RealtyTrac
Sprawl_Index
UrbanTreeCanopy
Utah Surveys
Walk Score
Zillow
0Archive
AGRC
American Housing Survey
ASU_Survey
BEA_PersonalCurrentTransferReciepts
BEA_PersonalPerCapIncome
BLS_CES
CARB
DenverSurveys
EPA\Residential Metro Permitting
EPA_CBECS
EPA_RECS
EPA_Residential Metro Permitting
Fiscal Impact Tool_Federal Reserve Board
MARC
NAIOP Reports
NAR Surveys
NaturalEarth
Nelson
NOAA
NPTS
PerfArts
PerfArts
Porter_Novelli
PRISM
RCLCO
Salt Lake City
Salt_Lake_County
Salt_Lake_County Taxes
Spatial Insights Census Tracts
UPlan_UCDavis
USDA
Utah County
Utah Division of Water Resources
WFRC
WFRC - Green Infrastructure
Woods and Poole
Catalytic sites
We provided substantial support for Envision Utah's lead in facilitating catalytic site plan
implementation. This included preparing numerous documents and presentations based on ET+,
projections, and especially showing opportunities for redevelopment of specific sites to 2040.
Engagement
It is impossible for us to summarize fairly the extent to which we engaged citizens, government
officials, trade associations, nonprofits, think-tanks, foundations, civic associations and others.
While we have not tallied the total number of people with whom we have engaged since the
project started in January 2011, we estimate MRC personnel have engaged with more than
10,000 people locally and across the nation but the figure could be a multiple of this. (One could
review the complete record of engagement activities that was logged periodically through the
grant period to derive a minimum estimate since not all engagements were logged.)
Professional/Scholarly Presentations
Again, without being complete, we have made formal professional and scholarly presentations
based substantially on our work to such groups as the following (including local chapters):
American Planning Association
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
Transportation Research Board
New Partners for Smart Growth
Institute of Transportation Engineers
Association of European Schools of Planning
Urban Land Institute
Growth and Infrastructure Consortium
National Association of Office and Industrial Parks
National Association of Home Builders
National Apartment Association
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Sonoran Institute
Island Press
Natural Resources Defense Council
Education
Our work has been used in varying degrees in several courses such as:
Research Design
Research Methods
GIS Foundations
Growth Management
Urban Development Methods
Transportation Planning
And especially short courses on professional training for ET+.
Publications
There are probably more than 20 articles, chapters, nationally-distributed monographs, and even
whole books based substantially if not entirely on our work with as more or more likely a
multiple to be developed over the next few years. The following focuses only on articles and
books.
Articles appearing in professional and scholarly journals
Journal of Planning Education and Research
Housing Policy Debate
Journal of Urbanism
The Urban Lawyer
Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning
Transportation Research Record
Planning Magazine
Planning Theory and Practice
Urban Studies
TOD Line
Journal of the American Planning Association
Economic Development Quarterly
Journal of Public Transportation
Books (as part of our book series with Island Press -- we are the only planning and policy
program with its own book series with a major publisher)
Reshaping Metropolitan America
Measuring Urban Design
Foundations of Real Estate Development Financing: A Guide Public-Private Partnerships