Case Study: Envision Utah Streamlines Community Scenario Planning with UrbanFootprint

Envision Utah maps Utah County’s future with UrbanFootprint, engaging 10,000 residents in planning

Envision Utah, a nonprofit focused on strategic community planning, faced the challenge of creating and analyzing multiple land use scenarios for Utah County's rapid growth using an unwieldy combination of desktop GIS and spreadsheets. They turned to vendor UrbanFootprint and its robust scenario planning platform to streamline this process and better engage the public.

Using UrbanFootprint, the team efficiently built five distinct growth scenarios and utilized its Analysis Modules to project key outcomes like land consumption, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions. This allowed 10,000 survey respondents to make data-driven assessments, leading to a preferred community vision that significantly outperformed the status quo. UrbanFootprint also enabled remote collaboration, allowing the work to continue seamlessly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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