Two landscape architecture awards for Seven Greenways Vision Plan
Authored by Brian Tonetti
We’ve received two further awards for the Seven Greenways Vision Plan, an Award of Excellence from the Utah Chapter and an Honor Award from the Colorado/Wyoming Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
The Utah Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has recognized the Seven Greenways Vision Plan with an Award of Excellence in the Analysis & Planning category during its 2023 awards ceremony. This is the top award given out in any one category. The Plan was also recognized with a 2023 Honor Award in the Analysis & Planning category by the Colorado/Wyoming Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. These two awards join a 2022 Merit Award from the Utah Chapter of the American Planning Association.
The awards commend the century-long framework and collection of goals, opportunity areas, and strategies to develop greenway corridors along City, Red Butte, Emigration, Parley’s, Mill, Big Cottonwood, and Little Cottonwood Creeks. Moreover, the award acknowledges the extensive regional collaboration with eight stream-side municipalities (Cottonwood Heights, Holladay, Midvale, Millcreek, Murray, Sandy, Salt Lake City, and South Salt Lake) and Salt Lake County, as well as the equitable community engagement–which reached thousands of residents across the Salt Lake Valley. The result is a community-supported vision for the future of our waterways.
We are honored to be recognized by these two chapters of the American Society of Landscape Architects. We’ve celebrated the vision plan this Summer and Fall with a series of five walks across the five core elements—Water, Nature, Community, Recreation, and Urban. Join us for our final walk on October 25th at 5:30PM on Big Cottonwood Creek from Holladay Hills to Creekside Park: sevengreenwaysvisionplan.org/walks/recreation.
