Ari Bruening, JD, AICP, is an attorney specializing in land use planning and zoning with extensive experience in visioning, planning, entitlement, and implementation efforts for regions, properties, and critical growth-related topics. At Envision Utah, he helped lead the Your Utah, Your Future statewide vision that solicited feedback from 52,845 Utahns on 11 different topics; the Valley Visioning project for Utah County, which engaged more than 11,000 residents; Utah’s recommended State Water Strategy; and the state’s Vision for Teacher Excellence. Previously, he managed visioning and entitlement projects for the San Diego, California, region; in Laie, Hawaii; at Daybreak and the 93,000-acre Kennecott Land Company project in Salt Lake County; for the 175,000-acre Superstition Vistas Arizona state trust land parcel; and for the 300,000-acre Deseret Ranches of Florida landholding near the Orlando International Airport. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in philosophy from Brigham and Young University.