A community-driven plan for the future of Salt Lake City's natural lands, urban forest and city parks.

Can You Re-imagine Nature?

Salt Lake City Public Lands is conducting a community-driven master plan for the future of Salt Lake City's natural lands, urban forest and city parks.

Visit Wasatch Hollow Park on Tuesday, May 4, from 5:00 - 7:00pm to meet up with representatives from SLC Public Lands at their Reimagine Nature pop-up booth.

Take a look and participate in the survey. They want YOUR voice heard!

https://www.reimaginenatureslc.com/

Thank you Tree Utah!

On Saturday, April 3, Tree Utah and many volunteers planted trees and shrubs in the north section of the Wasatch Hollow Preserve. These will greatly improve the habitat of this area for natural wildlife and our peaceful long-term enjoyment of the area. Please take special care not to trample or uproot these new plantings. We are most appreciative of this effort by Tree Utah.

Upcoming Wasatch Hollow Community Council Meeting: April 28

Hello Neighbors!

We look forward to seeing many of you at our upcoming April 28 virtual community Council meeting at 7:00 PM on April 28 Scheduled Items:

Reimagine Nature Salt Lake City Public Lands Master Plan. Please review their plan and take the survey so you can have meaningful input to this plan.
Water Wise Utah representative, Shelby Erickson the Water Conservation Coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
- Low snowpack and stream flows prompt Mayor Mendenhall to issue Stage 1 Advisory of City’s Water Shortage Contingency Plan
Dan Dugan, our District 6 council representative, is on the agenda to talk about issues of importance to our district.
Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlce6urz4jG9R06NBb-r0D_2nWGJQdzvRn
- After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Wasatch Hollow Community Council has a New Board

On February 24 at our annual elections virtual meeting, a new Wasatch Hollow Community Council (WHCC) Board was elected. Great community members volunteered and all the positions were filled. We have a nice mix of former board members and new members in our area. We also have both sides of the Hollow represented. We have already met and shared new ideas for building connections with in our community. The new board members are:

Chair Anne Cannon
Vice Chair Dan Jensen
Second Vice Chair Don Emerson
Secretary Glenda Cotter
Treasurer John Rosswog
Webmaster Tyler Fonarow.

Our next Wasatch Hollow Community Council meeting is on March 24 @ 7:00 PM. This meeting will be a Zoom meeting. To attend, you will need a laptop, tablet, or smartphone that will run Zoom to attend the meeting. Pre-registration is required to attend this meeting. Registration information will be posted on this website prior to the March 24 meeting. Please plan to join in, let your neighbors know, and ask them to sign up by email so they too can get regular updates. We look forward to seeing and hearing from all of you.

Update to the 1700 South Storm Drain – 2100 East to Wasatch Hollow Project

Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities (SLCDPU) will build a new storm drain from 1700 South and 2100 East to Wasatch Hollow. SLCDPU is wrapping up engineering and design based off community feedback. The figure below shows the path of the storm drain (in blue). SLCDPU anticipates construction to start in the fall of 2020 and to wrap up over the summer of 2021.

CIP Award Implementation and Timeline

The Wasatch Hollow Access and Amenity Improvement Project, submitted by Council Chairman Dodd and amended by Meg Roberts, was funded by the City Council. Included in the request are additional park benches, a dog fountain and multiple new access points to the park including an access point and pedestrian bridge across the creek off Rosecrest Dr.

The Wasatch Hollow access improvements are a large project that will take time to design and construct with a tentative timeline to complete the project by the end of 2020. SLC Public Lands is currently working with their Engineering office to speed the timeline for the benches and dog fountain.

Further updates to the project will be posted here and on our Facebook page.

If you'd like to view the complete CIP application, as approved, click here for the pdf version.

Wasatch Hollow Community Council is a nonprofit (501c3) community organization supported by member and organizational donations. Donations are used to support our annual community event Hollowfest, fund ongoing expenses such as PO Box rental, communication expenses and internet domain expenses and other items as determined and approved by membership.

Donations are tax deductible, per IRS rules for donations to a 501c3 organization. We are permitted by the State of Utah to solicit donations as a charitable organization.

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Thanks for your support!

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