The Salt Lake City Council has been focusing their efforts on making the City more pedestrian friendly. In January 2005 the City Council approved a "walkable communities" ordinance, which is designed to bring the entrances of businesses up to the sidewalk to enliven the streetscapes, encourage pedestrian access and make the streets safer. The ordinance would require parking lots to be located behind buildings rather than on street frontage, place buildings at the lot line and increase the glazing requirements at street level to 40 percent glass.
Additional legislation under consideration includes allowing buildings to be set back further in areas that have substandard sidewalks or allocating funding to improve the sidewalks; improve pedestrian access through parking lots to buildings to differentiate between the pedestrian walkways and parking lots; and require larger landscaped setbacks for parking lots and structures that reduces the amount of property that may be used for building or required parking.
Salt Lake City has been proactive in becoming a community that is pedestrian and bicycle friendly and promotes active living. It also launched "SLC Gets Fit Together," a walking program for city employees that becomes a citywide campaign in May 2005.
Goal
Improve Pedestrian access