Local river guides evicted from encampment
This article won a first-place award in the 2023 Top of the Rockies journalism competition. Another group of Moab residents is facing eviction. Grand County is ordering about 16 people to vacate a piece of…
Housing & Development
State grant will help fund affordable apartments
The commission approved a grant contract agreement between the Housing Authority of Southeastern Utah and Grand County for funds from a grant from the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity for $300,000. The…
County and city have future visioning plans in the works
Now is the time to voice your hopes for the future of Moab. Both Grand County and the City of Moab are working on plans that will impact future policies—Grand County is revising…
USU Moab’s new building to open April 1
On April 1, Utah State University will hold a ribbon-cutting for its new Moab campus. The event will include a tour, an opportunity to contribute to a USU Moab Community Scholarship fund, and…
Moving forward with a workforce housing requirement
The city’s proposed ordinance that would require new developments in R3 and R4 (multi-household and manufactured housing residential) zones to devote a percentage of units to housing local employees is moving forward. The city…
New landscaping ordinance in the works
One of the City of Moab’s water conservation goals, outlined in the most recent draft of its Water Conservation Plan passed in 2021, is to develop a landscaping ordinance. According to the Center for Water-Efficient…
Proposed apartments would increase available homes, but may displace current tenants
Another Moab trailer park is likely to be redeveloped within the next year. Provo-based development company 2nd Story Capital received unanimous approval from the Moab City Planning Commission to move ahead with plans…
Neighbors thumbs-down proposed zone change in rural residential
Several Spanish Valley residents attended a public hearing held at the Mar. 15 Grand County Commission meeting on a request for a zone change on an 11-acre parcel on Spanish Valley Drive. The…
Kane Creek development leads to evictions: Developers promise community benefit, but first, tenants must leave
Mike Newbold and Ross High were neighbors on Kane Creek Boulevard for about a decade. They were part of a quirky neighborhood wedged between the Colorado River and the Behind the Rocks Bureau…
Ensuring housing for Moab’s workforce: City Council
Moab’s lack of affordable housing is becoming a defining feature of the city: local Facebook pages are packed with people searching for rooms or houses to rent, the Housing Authority of Southeastern Utah’s…