Vision 2020 +

Maintain the Quality of Life

The high quality of life in Cache Valley is our greatest economic asset and
we must maintain it if we are to prosper.

Objective 1.a. – Counties and cities must collaborate and coordinate their land use policies to foster smart growth, maintain open space, and protect environmental quality.

Action 1.a.1. – Implement land use policies and economic development activities that discourage sprawl, reduce vehicle miles traveled, reduce traffic congestion, and reduce air pollution.

• Encourage in-fill and use of existing buildings for future commercial and industrial development.
  
  
• Identify lands most appropriate for commercial and industrial development.
  
  
• Promote the most efficient utilization of existing infrastructure.
  
  
• Consider acquisition of development rights along major corridors to limit access and maintain traffic flow.
  
  
• Support changes in the sales tax distribution, to allow either through inter-local agreement or change in state statute, that would promote sound planning and growth.
  
  
• Encourage mixed use and commercial neighborhood, and community centers to decrease need to drive long distances for what have traditionally been neighborhood/community services.
  
  
• Encourage “clean” business development that will not degrade air or water quality.

Action 1.a.2. – Implement land use policies and programs to maintain the valley’s open space.

• Consider acquisition of development rights in high priority agricultural lands and other critical open lands.
  
  
• Adopt policies that encourage higher density residential development in communities with infrastructure and away from agricultural lands and other critical open lands.

Action 1.a.3. – Coordinate and implement development requirements that assure protection of water resources.

• Ensure appropriate management of storm water.
  
  
• Maintain water rights to assure continuation of agriculture.
  
  
• Protect quality of culinary water supplies.
  
  
• Ensure adequate water for commercial and industrial development.
  
  
• Ensure adequate water for fire protection.
  
  
• Protect and maintain natural water ways and wetlands for flood management, filtration of pollutants and preservation of wildlife habitat and corridors.

Objective 1.b. – Counties and cities must collaborate and coordinate the development of programs to assure the effective delivery of Police, Fire, and Emergency Services.

Action 1.b.1. – Encourage cooperative agreements with police protection similar to what has been accomplished with the Cache County-Wide Emergency Medical Services Inter-Local Agreement and the Mutual Aid Inter-Local Agreement that describes dispatch protocol for fire protection.
Action 1.b.2. – Encourage all Cache Valley jurisdictions to participate in the mutual aid inter-local agreement for fire protection.

Objective 1.c. – Counties and cities must collaborate and coordinate the development of programs to assure that there is an ample supply of affordable housing in the valley.

Action 1.c.1. – Efforts should be made to ensure that each community adopts and implements affordable and fair housing plans that are appropriate to their community and the mix of the valley.

Action 1.c.2. – Appropriate housing mix should be located near services, employment opportunities, and public transportation.

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