Packed to the Future

Vision Dixie Plans for the Future

By Tracy Medley, 5-29-07

What will Southern Utah’s cities look like in the not-too-distant future? Well, according to Vision Dixie is a countywide initiative hoping to wisely plan for the future and given the area’s exponential population growth over the past several years, the timing is apt.

We are talking about an enormous amount of people moving to a place that is both essentially and literally; a desert. County infrastructure can hardly keep up with the population in some towns growing close to 40 percent over the past 8 years.

St. George’s population explosion is so pervasive and complicated that it even made its way into George Will’s Newsweek column about illegal immigration.

Vision Dixie has proposed four scenarios for Dixie’s future, leaving it up to residents to decide which course will be the best in preparing for the inevitable. The final four scenarios were hashed out over the course of 13 workshops and with input from nearly 1200 area residents

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