Zusammenfassung
The creeks that run down from the Wasatch Mountain Range into the Salt Lake Valley serve a vital role in helping to channel snow melt from the mountains and manage stormwater runoff in the valley. While many of these creeks have been partially channeled and buried, renewed attention by civic leaders, community members, and organizations like the Seven Canyons Trust is highlighting the valuable role these waterways play in the community and the opportunities they present to not only assist with stormwater management in the valley but to also positively impact community members’ health and wellbeing in a variety of ways.

The City of South Salt Lake and the Seven Canyons Trust (together the Sponsors) turned to the Urban Land Institute Utah District Council (ULI) for assistance with plans for Mill Creek. The Sponsors requested strategies for daylighting the stream and creating a greenway trail and also asked ULI to make recommendations for further activating the surrounding four-block stretch of the creek corridor, spurring economic development in the area.

ULI, using its trusted Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) program, convened a panel of real estate professionals with the expertise to answer the questions posed by the Sponsors. The ULI panel’s recommendations leveraged the good planning work already completed in the Mill Creek area and identified a series of steps the Sponsors can take in the near, medium, and long term to achieve their goals for an active and vibrant Mill Creek corridor.

The panel articulated the goal of this work as follows: to create a mobile, connected community, to facilitate economic growth, to remain inclusive of meeting all types of housing needs, and to create a healthy and vibrant waterway providing recreation, open space, and connections. The panel’s recommendations coalesce around four areas: community connectivity, creekside connectivity, rezoning and overlay potential, and funding.
The creeks that run down from the Wasatch Mountain Range into the Salt Lake Valley serve a vital role in helping to channel snow melt from the mountains and manage stormwater runoff in the valley. While many of these creeks have been partially channeled and buried, renewed attention by civic leaders, community members, and organizations like the Seven Canyons Trust is highlighting the valuable role these waterways play in the community and the opportunities they present to not only assist with stormwater management in the valley but to also positively impact community members’ health and wellbeing in a variety of ways.

The City of South Salt Lake and the Seven Canyons Trust (together the Sponsors) turned to the Urban Land Institute Utah District Council (ULI) for assistance with plans for Mill Creek. The Sponsors requested strategies for daylighting the stream and creating a greenway trail and also asked ULI to make recommendations for further activating the surrounding four-block stretch of the creek corridor, spurring economic development in the area.

ULI, using its trusted Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) program, convened a panel of real estate professionals with the expertise to answer the questions posed by the Sponsors. The ULI panel’s recommendations leveraged the good planning work already completed in the Mill Creek area and identified a series of steps the Sponsors can take in the near, medium, and long term to achieve their goals for an active and vibrant Mill Creek corridor.

The panel articulated the goal of this work as follows: to create a mobile, connected community, to facilitate economic growth, to remain inclusive of meeting all types of housing needs, and to create a healthy and vibrant waterway providing recreation, open space, and connections. The panel’s recommendations coalesce around four areas: community connectivity, creekside connectivity, rezoning and overlay potential, and funding.