Jim Carter, JD, AICP

Senior Planner/Regional Manager
Logan Simpson Design, Inc.
Jim is a certified planner, attorney, and public administrator with more than 34 years of experience in law, community planning, and natural resources management. Since joining Logan Simpson Design in 2006, Jim has worked with cities and counties in Arizona, Utah, and Idaho on community planning and ordinance development projects. He also served as co-project manager for the Utah Lake Master Plan project, and as interim planning co-director for Park City, Utah. From 1987 to 1993, Jim served as city attorney of Park City, where he worked primarily on land use, growth management, annexation policy, historic preservation, and water supply matters. He also served as the director of the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining for five years, and as director of the Great Salt Lake Plan project for the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Before joining LSD, Jim was a principal and project manager at a Salt Lake City-based planning and community issues consulting firm. While there, he designed and managed general plan and ordinance development projects for numerous communities across the West, and managed environmental planning and National Environmental Policy Act projects for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Jim has also worked as an exploration and engineering geologist.

Jim’s current projects include updating general plans for Sanpete and Morgan Counties, Utah, updating the Twin Falls County, Idaho land-use and subdivision regulations, developing a comprehensive management plan for the Hardware Ranch Wildlife Management Area for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and supporting the BLM’s environmental review of an 8,200-acre solar thermal power generation project in San Bernardino County, California.

Abstract: Forum Summation and What Next?

An unstated assumption has been that there will always be a Great Salt Lake. The geologic history of Great Salt Lake, climate change, and increasing demands for consumptive water uses suggest that may not be a safe assumption. We have heard about the value and importance of maintaining the health of the Great Salt Lake ecosystem, and about western water law and policy. We know that water in the west is both a commodity and a resource, in much the same way that light is both particle and wave. Our next steps will be to create a unified theory of ecosystem science, water law, public policy, and societal values that reconciles the disparities of these disciplines to yield a legally and politically supportable framework and plan to secure the future of Great Salt Lake.

Arrowhead by Charles Uibel

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