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Olympia Hills is back for public debate, with plans to make it Utah’s new Daybreak — only with more jobs nearby

Herriman • A resident uprising ended the first bid to create a massive new community out of farmland just west of Herriman.

This time, Salt Lake County leaders are imposing an unusually strict set of guidelines on virtually every aspect of how the development would look and feel, including requiring some affordable homes — and developers say they are willing to go along.

Their first step will be facing many of those same residents again at public hearings that begin this week.

The new version of Olympia Hills, detailed in thousands of pages of county planning documents, in many ways resembles Utah’s most famous planned community — Daybreak in nearby South Jordan.