Initiatives for Utah

Locality	Initiative Type	Mitigation Strategy	Link	Title & Description	Date
Highland	Comprehensive Plan and Design Guidelines	Trees and Vegetation	General Plan Update 2008	Highland City General Plan - The Town of Highland, Utah, created a master plan for a 50-acre (200,000 m²) overlay zone to be privately developed as a town center. The city design guidelines for the zone recommended several heat island mitigation elements, including reflective roofing, reflective parking lot surfaces, and landscaping. Those guidelines were then adopted into the zoning requirements for the town center.	Active
Salt Lake City	Outreach and Education Program	Cool Roofs; Green Roofs; Trees and Vegetation; Cool Pavements	Kool Kids	Utah Kool Kids Program - The Utah State Energy Program, Utah Department of Natural Resources, and the National Energy Foundation worked together to create the Utah Kool Kids program to teach elementary and secondary age students about urban heat islands, their impacts on energy and air quality, and heat island reduction strategies. The program gives teachers lesson plans, overheads, test questions, experiments, and research tools to engage students.	Active
Salt Lake City	Tree and Landscape Ordinance	Trees and Vegetation	See Chapter 21A.48.070	Salt Lake City Parking Lot Shade Tree Ordinance - Salt Lake City stipulates, via ordinance, that all hard-surfaced parking lots or hard-surfaced vehicle sales or lease lots, for passenger cars and light trucks, with 15 or more parking spaces, must provide landscaping amounting to not less than 5% of the interior of the lot. The ordinance specifies the number of shrubs and trees per foot of front, corner, interior, and rear side yards required for compliance.	Active
Statewide	Urban Forestry Program; Outreach and Education Program	Trees and Vegetation	Statewide Urban & Community Forestry Program	TreeUtah - TreeUtah has launched a comprehensive initiative, the MetroGreening Program, that uses advertising, outreach, and educational workshops to promote proper planting and maintenance of trees to reduce heating and cooling costs, diminish the heat island effect, and achieve other benefits in Utah's most densely-populated regions.	Active

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