Why opening Utah’s public land to development might not solve the housing crisis

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David Condos / KUER Even with Washington County’s rapid growth, there are places where the sprawl stops. Here, a neighborhood road dead ends in an open desert controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, Sept. 13, 2024.

Just east of the St. George city limits, there’s a place where the sprawl ends.

Turning a corner past large, pristine homes with manicured lawns, the black asphalt gives way to red desert.

Given southwest Utah’s rapid growth, it would seem like this neighborhood could easily continue on. However, if you take one more step past the end of the sidewalk, you enter open scrubland controlled by the Bureau of Land Management…

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