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What do you think of the draft of the new General Plan and the Conservation and Resilience Plan for Provo City?

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Acknowledgments” section? Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Introduction” section? Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “A Welcoming Community?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Stewardship of the Outdoors?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Growing Together?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Livable Provo?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Connected and Safe?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Implementation Action Plan?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about any other aspect of the Conservation and Resilience Plan?

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Acknowledgments” section? Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Introduction” section? Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Baseline Dashboard?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Target Snapshot?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Carbon Emissions?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Air Quality?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Renewable Energy?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Environment?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Waste?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Water?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Mobility?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

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Jared Szymanski inside City Boundary (registered)
October 18, 2021, 10:55 PM
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Acknowledgments” section? Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Introduction” section? Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “A Welcoming Community?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Stewardship of the Outdoors?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    Municipal governments should not play a role in providing facilities that compete with private business. I would like to see the city divest itself of the rec center, Covey center and Peaks ice arena. These cost the city money and benefit a small subset of Provo citizens, and these services could be better provided by private business. I agree with the city maintaining parks, protecting environment and restoring the Provo River. Although agriculture is historical, it's no longer economically important to Provo and given a free market unencumbered by zoning and other restrictions, the land would be put to better uses, whether recreational, industrial or residential. It's time to embrace a modern version of Provo where agriculture is part of our history, not our present.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Growing Together?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    I agree with more mixed use and high-density zoning. Provo needs to allow growth and higher density.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Livable Provo?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    I'm opposed to cities trying to manage housing mix through subsidies or incentives. The free market will arrive at the optimal solution if government imposed impediments are removed. I'm in favor of simplifying development process, allowing more ADUs, and expediting the reviews. These changes will naturally allow for more construction of lower priced housing if that's what the market demands.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Connected and Safe?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Implementation Action Plan?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about any other aspect of the Conservation and Resilience Plan?
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Acknowledgments” section? Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Introduction” section? Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Baseline Dashboard?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Target Snapshot?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Carbon Emissions?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    I'm in favor of energy efficiency but only if it's cost effective. I don't think spending a lot of money to reduce carbon footprint is in our interest unless it has a positive return on investment within a few years. The added cost of most of these actions will make it more expensive to live and work in Provo.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Air Quality?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    We don't need government to incentivize electric vehicles. There will be a natural and rapid transition to electric when price comes down, and I expect that will be in the next 10 years whether or not government offers incentives or not.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Renewable Energy?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    I'm opposed to government choosing winners and losers in energy. There may be dozens of ways to generate cleaner and cheaper energy and government favoring wind and solar might be inhibiting the development of others like nuclear, or carbon-scrubbing tech, or any of a number of other innovations.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Environment?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    I'm opposed to preserving agricultural land. I'm also opposed to ordinances requiring caps on parking or arbitrary requirements about planting trees.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Waste?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    I'm opposed to ordinances requiring a certain percentage to be recycled. These are the kinds of arbitrary rules that kill development and make any kind of change prohibitively expensive.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Water?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    Charge a market rate for water. People will conserve when it hits them in the pocketbook.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Mobility?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.

    I agree with charging for parking. "Free" parking has a cost that is borne by everyone.

  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Fire Risk?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the section “Implementation Matrix?" Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Appendix A - Benchmarking Studies?” Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about the “Appendix B - Supplemental Baseline Data?” Please reference page numbers for each of your comments.
    No response.
  • Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns about any other aspect of the Conservation and Resilience Plan?
    No response.
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