{"id":1468,"date":"2015-02-11T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2015-02-11T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:56:08","slug":"the-raw-deceit-of-envision-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2015\/02\/11\/the-raw-deceit-of-envision-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raw Deceit of Envision Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another plan that is attempting overtake the American way of life, this time in Utah. Yes this is going on in every single state in the nation, not just NH. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Raw Deceit of Envision Utah<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>By John Anthony<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablefreedomlab.org\/uncategorized\/raw-deceit-envision-utah\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Freedom Labs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Planners call Envision Utah a \u2018national model\u2019 for regional planning.  The Brookings Institute cited Utah as a \u201cleader in [voluntary] regional planning\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Behind the inflated congratulations lies sophisticated deceit and manipulation fast becoming the standard for regional planning.<\/p>\n<p>Envision Utah began over 15 years ago as a public-private partnership offering recommendations to cities and counties to preserve open space, increase transportation choices and more.<\/p>\n<p>Envision Utah claims to have one of regional planning\u2019s most successful outreach programs. Nearly 2000 people attended 50 workshops and 17,500 responded to online and mail-in surveys.  Yet, the turnout is no wonder.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the longest-running marketing campaigns in planning history, Envision Utah proponents assured residents that joining the plan was voluntary.  There would be no un-elected regional councils, no regional plan, and the community would design the planning scenarios.  This \u2018no-risk\u2019 campaign effectively disarmed community members\u2019 objections, leaving planners free to advance their programs beneath a mantel of \u201cneutrality\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablefreedomlab.org\/uncategorized\/raw-deceit-envision-utah\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another plan that is attempting overtake the American way of life, this time in Utah. Yes this is going on in every single state in the nation, not just NH. The Raw Deceit of Envision Utah By John Anthony Sustainable Freedom Labs Planners call Envision Utah a \u2018national model\u2019 for regional planning. The Brookings Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}