What's Happening in Southern Utah: Washington Fields

[@fjfjfurjrnfncnnxxn]

3:45 those foothills are so interesting, they remind me of sand bottles. I hope it’s left as open space instead of developed.

[@grammycanon3652]

Thank you!

[@stevecarhart716]

Need to save more of the open space. Not every piece of open property inside of St George needs to be filled at this time. Save some space for the future. My opinion.

[@goblincamper2004]

There aren't any high-paying jobs that don't require a college degree to help those who are struggling. It seems like all the development is in the retail or restaurant or entertainment business, and not job growth. It is hard to sustain the growth without jobs that pay. There has to be a stop to all the development. There will be a lot of people who will struggle when the economy crashes. There isn't a good public transportation system either. There are so many people so dependent on their cars to get around that if there is ever a shortage of gas/fuel no one will be able to get anywhere.

[@ethrlee]

real estate and construction are this towns biggest industries. people that move here already have money. whether it’s to retire or start a family. other than that it’s college students and vacationers.

[@macraeheppler]

What kind of high paying jobs are you asking for that don't require a degree or some kind of qualification?

[@Some0ne001]

I get what you are saying and it’s true the job market is abysmal here but in my neighborhood in little valley on my street I’d say about 50% of the people work remote jobs so they have high paying jobs but work for companies not local. There are areas where the city has zones for purely industrial companies to come but they just aren’t coming here yet. Think of tech ridge or a few thousand acres by the new airport all zoned for industrial and the city wants $1 billion worth of industry by the new airport. Why would companies come here when salt lake/Lehi area is know as silicon slopes with lots more opportunities for companies to build.

[@FrankZMoney]

@@Some0ne001 St. George should be building more industrial not pickle ball courts.

[@macraeheppler]

@@FrankZMoney They are. Go check out what's happening around the airport

[@dovepeace6208]

When is a Sams Club coming to Saint George?

[@macraeheppler]

No plans that i'm aware of

[@77thomas]

We need Sam’s club

[@FrankZMoney]

I wish St. George had an industry, if the market crashes it’ll be a ghost town.

[@fjfjfurjrnfncnnxxn]

It’s inevitable, the urban sprawling is not sustainable. It costs more to provide services to these developments than they bring in. If it’s not the market crashing, it’ll be the water shortage. Once the growth stops, the house of cards comes down.

[@macraeheppler]

Haha lotta dooms dayers on this one i see

[@macraeheppler]

@@fjfjfurjrnfncnnxxn I cant imagine living with this mindset its wild

[@fjfjfurjrnfncnnxxn]

@@macraeheppler it’s because I love this area and want to see it be the best it can be. Instead of learning from other places’ mistakes, we’re mindlessly growing and sprawling as much as we can. Supporting that isn’t a better mindset to have.

[@wesleyyoung5873]

Saint George has never had an industry outside of tourism and more recently construction and medical care. This is been the case through multiple boom and bust cycles, people move here for the lifestyle not work

[@Harold.Richard]

So are we running out of water or are we not running out of water?

[@Shannaindexing]

They're building two new reservoirs for water storage.

[@macraeheppler]

Lots of work going on to expand our water system. Did a video on it a few months ago if you scroll back

[@Some0ne001]

I recommend you look at the Utah Division of Water Resources .gov website, we have more water now than we have had in the last 15 years. Most of Utah is out of a drought but for some reason people are still pushing that there isn’t any water and don’t want to educate themselves and just read the fake news headlines . Currently Washington county can supply water to around 600,000 people that’s not including the 3 new reservoirs that will be built in the next few years or so. They reported we won’t have 600,000 people here until around 2070. That’s why they want the lake Powell pipeline so our kid’s kids will have water past the year 2070. When we met with the Washington water conservancy district he told us there’s enough water for quite some time but it’s being pushed as a political issue for votes. Just my $0.02

[@healthykidsbooks]

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[@NilesWigley]

Is any new Residential NOT HOA controlled it doesn't look like any new residential will be Non-HOA

[@justinfrangquist9488]

Takes longer to develop non hoa communities. Here in Washington county we don't want to waste any time with the developing

[@macraeheppler]

Yes there are lots of HOA and master plan communities, but there are some new subdivisions that don't have them

[@young-black-pictures8978]

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[@Peetie_Wheatstraw]

Are there any EV charging stations in St. George?

[@macraeheppler]

Yes there's quite a few around town

[@raymonderickson7975]

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