Utah

Business is booming for the nation's only privately owned and operated radioactive and hazardous waste landfill. Envirocare of Utah handles almost as much waste in the first half of 2005 as it did in all of 2004.

The Department of Energy is moving radioactive waste farther from the banks of the Colorado River in Utah, where it has been temporarily stored.

Overlays allowing granny flats and customized zoning for unique development situations meet needs, reduce excessive regulations, promote affordable housing.

Local politicians are taking the fight against global warming past Washington politics and directly to the people.

Plans to temporarily house over 44,000 tons of nuclear waste at the Skill Valley Reservation in Utah are pushing forward, despite Utah officials' objections.

What is next for two failing shopping malls owned by the Mormon Church in downtown Salt Lake City?

Planners hope to counter rows of monotonous housing with design standards such as mandating "visual relief" through architectural features and a minimum of two colors on each unit.

Honor students at the University of Utah use downtown Salt Lake City as a case study of public participation in the planning process.

New rail stations to open in 2007 will offer residents of towns north of Salt Lake City new economic options.

A Salt Lake City ordinance is designed to bring pedestrians back to the city's streets.

Oil and gas leases are devastating wilderness areas in Utah, even though these supplies are enough to feed US oil demand for about four days.

A study commissioned by officials in Ogden , UT, concludes a gondola system would be cheaper than a light rail line.

Pundits say there may be legal and financial snags with the Utah open-space measure to be voted on in November

The Bureau of Land Management has auctioned off nearly nearly 40,000 acres of legislatively proposed wilderness in Utah to oil interests -- although studies show the resulting oil would serve the country's needs only for a few weeks.

The process for long-range land use and transportation planning works with Envision Utah to tie the two together.

Two new rapidly growing Utah towns grow beyond expectations, and beyond service areas.

Historical trends in rainfall may mean cities in the West are living beyond their means. [Link corrected.]

A city adopts ordinance to discourage big-boxe retailers.

A popular petition to raise money for preservation of open space in Utah will now likely be on the November ballot, thanks to the Utah Supreme Court

The Utah Supreme Court rules that a citizen referendum attempting to overturn a rezone was not appropriate.