I look forward to Nihon Matsuri each year when we honor the Japanese community & celebrate important traditions. It's important to me that we preserve valuable community spaces like Japantown—a special part of downtown's core—and make them more accessible, walkable and cared for.

In case you missed it: we recently approved an ordinance to protect local historic landmarks and buildings in historic districts.

The ordinance changes the City's zoning laws, adding penalties for work on historic structures without proper permits.

Following the new changes,…

'...if you stood in a delirious Delta Center on Wednesday night for a welcome without equal, you saw right away why commissioner Gary Bettman made Salt Lake City the destination for the NHL franchise that spent 2 decades wandering the desert without a true home.'…

Read my recap of Salt Lake City happenings in April and ACE-funded events you can look forward to in the next 2 weeks: slc.gov/mayor/newslett…

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SLCFD is on scene of a fuel spill into Parleys Creek. We have units at Tanner Park as well as Sugarhouse Park working to mitigate the incident. PIO is on scene. Media staging will be at Sugarhouse Park. Please keep your animals out of Parleys Creek for the foreseeable future.

3-week countdown: Bring your bike or snag one from GREENbike for our Spring ride through #SLC ! 🌷🌹🪻🚴🏽

Salt Lake City and Utah showed up today for our new @nhl players. You showed up LOUD and with so much heart!!! I think it’ll be a day none of us will soon forget—especially the young fans and athletes.
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We do! In fact, we're about to open a community orchard along the 9-Line Trail just west of the Jordan River.

There are all kinds of varieties of apple, pear, peach, and apricot trees growing in our urban forest. Plus, persimmon, serviceberry, and mulberry. Nut trees have a…

Salt Lake City will plant trees anywhere on public property where they will be watered (and don’t conflict with other land uses). SLC Public Lands is currently developing an inventory of viable tree-planting locations in our parks and along trails. We're not permitted to plant in…

There are always ways to improve. If anyone is ever unhappy with the Urban Forestry Division's service, I'd urge you to contact the City Forester.

As part of our process, Urban Forestry does give notice to adjacent property owners when scheduling a tree removal. If an emergency…

The No. 1 thing Salt Lakers can do to help our urban forest is give trees near you enough water to thrive. When you visit slc.gov/parks/urban-fo… you can:
✅ Request a tree
✅ Learn how to water trees
✅ Keep Your Cool

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Since Salt Lake City's urban forest is exceptionally diverse (having 290 different tree species), it's actually quite resilient to climate change. Our trees will be vital as our climate warms. Some species will become less suitable while others will thrive. Our City’s arborists…