7/1/2023 0 Comments Uta trax salt lake city![]() ![]() “Daybreak was conceived as a case study for smart growth,” he wrote in a text, “a laboratory of sorts to explore how to get back to more human scale, less automobile dependent development, development that allows transportation mode equity.” While cities from Salt Lake City to Chicago to Seattle are going on “bike-lane-building-binges,” the idea of making suburbs more bike-able is often overlooked, or tacked on later, when cost becomes a greater issue.īut in Daybreak, making the community safe for pedestrians and cyclists was always part of the plan, explained Stephen James, senior vice president of planning and community design for Larry H. Driver licenses are the keys to freedom for suburban youth and the mall and work and home are all disparate places connected by freeways. Mom and dad fight traffic (alone, in their respective vehicles) to work in the city. ![]() This is only surprising because suburban life and cars are tenets of American life. Many of the development’s marketing materials talk up a design principle “focused on the careful conservation of energy, land and other resources.” They tout the convenience of TRAX’s red line and the straight shot Daybreak residents can take to the University of Utah. Rio Tinto’s Kennecott set aside property from its vast land holdings and developed the community before selling to Värde Partners in 2016 who in turn sold it to Larry H. The first families started moving into Daybreak in 2004. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Chris Wiltsie, left, of Bike Utah, and his son Soren, 3, join Mike West, a Daybreak resident, as he pedals his cargo bike during a bicycle tour of the area on Thursday, May 25, 2023.ĭaybreak - with its young trees and trashless streets - is roughly 20 miles south of Salt Lake City. ![]()
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