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Adrian Aldous
works: Registered dietitian.
If elected, what will you do to provide more affordable housing options for your residents? Do you support high-density housing?
We have a problem with affordable housing for ski resort employees. To this end, we are working on ways to incentivize homeowners to rent out a room or their home as a long-term rental to resorts located in our city.
We have little land available for development due to our limited water rights, so although I am not opposed to high-density housing, I don’t see it happening here.
What is your city’s responsibility in addressing homelessness, and what will you do within your community boundaries to help unhoused Utahns?
I live in a ski resort in Brighton, so we are not prepared to house homeless people. We live in a dead-end valley. There are no resources such as grocery stores or medical facilities.
Besides affordable housing or homelessness, what is the biggest challenge your city faces, and how would you address it?
The biggest challenge we face today is the more than 2 million visitors we see annually. We have little parking for these visitors, so they end up parking on the road. This creates public safety issues. I would suggest introducing a toll on our canyon to limit the number of people traveling the canyon, especially in the winter months. This is a long-term solution. The short-term solution is to increase busing, incentivize shared ridership and allow homeowners to provide parking on their properties for a fee to visiting skiers.
What is a fun or unique fact about yourself?
I’m a dog whisperer. For some reason, dogs really like me and are attracted to me. Fortunately for me, I love dogs almost more than people, so I welcome visits.
Jeffrey S. Bossard
(Jeffrey S. Bussard) Brighton City Council candidate Jeffrey S. Bussard Bossard.
works: Dean of students and facilities at a high school early in college.
If elected, what will you do to provide more affordable housing options for your residents? Do you support high-density housing?
I applied for and received approval for a grant program called “Renting to Locals” to incentivize current short-term rental owners to convert their properties into long-term rentals for employee housing. I will be introducing another program tentatively called “Turning for Tenants” to financially incentivize landlords to rent properties long-term to people working within the city of Brighton. Each of these programs is a form of affordable housing. Due to water restrictions related to Brighton being in a catchment area, high density housing is only permitted in the Isolation Village area.
What is your city’s responsibility in addressing homelessness, and what will you do within your community boundaries to help unhoused Utahns?
I strongly support the efforts of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, and most recently the City of West Valley, to address the issue of unhoused people. Due to the high elevation terrain and because most of the land within our city is owned by the U.S. Forest Service, we are limited in the services we can provide to the unhoused. However, we can treat them with respect, inform them of available resources, and in a few cases, drive them across the valley to provide them with the services they need.
Besides affordable housing or homelessness, what is the biggest challenge your city faces, and how would you address it?
Traffic and related environmental conditions caused by 2 million visitors annually represent our biggest challenge. The city has instigated the appointment of an environmental consultant to prepare a climate and environmental sustainability plan that was submitted on August 8. She appeared before the state Legislature on behalf of Brighton to try to secure funding to address the traffic issue. Thanks to the efforts of the Mayor, City Council, Central Wasatch Commission and many others, this is now coming to fruition. An EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) will be conducted on Big Cottonwood Canyon, which is the first step in obtaining funding. This funding could be used to run buses more often, including during the summer, along with providing adequate parking spaces at Valley Transit hubs, the use of apps to encourage car sharing, on-demand truck service within the Valley, and the potential to use existing parking lots off the property. Wasatch Street.
What is a fun or unique fact about yourself?
People say I have a voice that should be on the radio.
Liz Sorensen Brunhardt
(Liz Sorensen Bronhart) Brighton City Council candidate Liz Sorensen Bronhart.
works: Retired research scientist, musician.
If elected, what will you do to provide more affordable housing options for your residents? Do you support high-density housing?
In Brighton, we need affordable housing options for ski resort and restaurant employees. If elected, I will provide financial/tax incentives for rental property owners to convert their short-term rentals to long-term rentals. This would go a long way in resolving traffic issues and dysfunctional neighborhoods.
What is your city’s responsibility in addressing homelessness, and what will you do within your community boundaries to help unhoused Utahns?
Brighton is fortunate to not have a homelessness problem, as living homeless here is next to impossible due to simple logistics.
Besides affordable housing or homelessness, what is the biggest challenge your city faces, and how would you address it?
The biggest challenge facing the City of Brighton is funding its fire and police services, followed by traffic and excessive noise. The biggest challenge is yet to come: providing enough water for future visitors and residents.
What is a fun or unique fact about yourself?
I have two nicknames: “DarkFiddle,” where I play jazz viola in two bands, and “The Beaver Lady.” I am leading a project to restore beaver habitat in Big Cottonwood Canyon, as well as improving beaver problems (potential for flooding) in Brighton.
Javan Janung
works: Investor
If elected, what will you do to provide more affordable housing options for your residents? Do you support high-density housing?
The City of Brighton has just begun a program to encourage long-term rental for employees in our area who work in either Brighton or Solution by offering additional compensation to the landlord if the requirements are met. Offering this program reduces the monthly rent for those interested as well as incentivizes long-term versus short-term rental. This would directly help in providing affordable housing.
What is your city’s responsibility in addressing homelessness, and what will you do within your community boundaries to help unhoused Utahns?
Our city is not well-suited to directly address homelessness due to its watershed and lack of developable land.
Besides affordable housing or homelessness, what is the biggest challenge your city faces, and how would you address it?
We have a fair number of challenges, as with any new city, but I would say the biggest is ensuring public safety is funded and secured. I would like to address this issue by working with different parties and arriving at a solution that is better for the city of Brighton and our visitors.
What is a fun or unique fact about yourself?
I’ve lived in Norway for a few years and split my time between attending a refugee school to learn Norwegian and surfing in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.
