The newly reorganized Utah Transit Authority Board tried Wednesday to demonstrate that it has cleaned up the agency’s scandal-plagued past regarding “transit-oriented developments,” or TODs.
Board members hope its adoption of a straightforward, objective site selection process will help persuade the state Legislature to allow UTA to participate in even more TODs. These projects entail UTA partnering with communities and developers to use extra UTA-owned land at train stations for housing, retail and commercial projects designed to increase transit ridership.
“I look forward to the time we are able to lift the [Legislature’s] cap on the total number of projects, and would hope that the move we are making now would enable” that, said UTA Board member Kent Millington.