CFSP Criteria

Salt Lake County Center for the ArtsCultural Facilities Support Program

Regional Cultural Center Definition & Criteria

A “Regional Cultural Center” refers to clustering multiple purpose, larger cultural venue building and amenities at one location and under consolidated operations management, serving a broad regional area’s residential audience and multiple cultural organizations and activities. A Regional Cultural Center can be owned by a municipality, private organization, qualified business, or by Salt Lake County.

A “Cultural Facility” refers to a single-purpose cultural venue operated by a local municipality, arts organization, or qualified business. The building and amenities are in one location that serve residential populations.

Applicants interested in renovating or constructing and operating a Regional Cultural Center may generally request greater public funding resources than those applicants seeking funding for a Cultural Facility. Accordingly, the County’s Cultural Facilities Support Program (CFSP) Advisory Board agrees that Salt Lake County should have distinct and thoroughly defined criteria for Regional Cultural Centers including:

I. Mission & Visiona. Concurrently meet the regional community’s multiple cultural needs

of a broad spectrum of organizations and individuals, including but not limited to: theater; dance; music performances & rehearsals; and visual and media arts classes & exhibitions.

b. Demonstrate credible public support in the form of a diverse and active audience and artist participant base.

II. Regional Participation & Partnerships a. Demonstrate intended partnerships with adjacent incorporated and

unincorporated communities and arts organizations that will utilize the Regional Center. This should include letters of support.

b. Demonstrate applicant’s intent of financial contribution to fund the construction and/or operations of the Regional Cultural Center.

III. Reduce Redundancies & Maximize Efficienciesa. Demonstrate efficiencies in public access by being located along or

near major transportation corridors, to efficiently serve residents of multiple communities.

b. Demonstrate that the regional center will reduce redundancies, maximize efficiencies, and increase the impact of each community participant.

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c. These Centers could be co-located with County recreation centers, libraries, educational institutions, or other public facilities to realize efficiencies of parking and transportation and to reinforce nodes of economic, cultural, or residential development. Centers could also be located within private or commercial developments that accomplish the same.



As stated in the County-adopted 2008 Cultural Facilities Master Plan, new Regional Cultural Centers have been identified as serving the following communities:

a. The Mid-Valley Regional Cultural Center will serve the geographical East and West Planning Areas.

b. The Southeast Valley Regional Cultural Center would serve the geographical Southeast Planning Area.

c. The Southwest Valley Regional Cultural Center could be located along the projected “Mountain View” interstate highway corridor and would serve residents of the fast- growing communities in the geographical Southwest Planning Area.

The 2008 Cultural Facilities Master Plan adopted its Planning Areas based upon the existing Salt Lake County Parks & Recreation Planning areas. However, the placement of a municipality in a designated regional cultural area should be adjusted when it is in the best interest of the area’s citizens and they desire and agree to such a change in planning area placement.

See attached reference material for planning map and list of incorporated and unincorporated communities.



Criteria & Conditions for Schools as a Community Cultural Arts Facility

A key recommendation in the 2008 Cultural Facilities Master Plan is the need for community arts organizations to engage school districts and develop strategies to address the accessibility of school facilities by community arts organizations.

The Cultural Facilities Support Program encourages applications from community arts groups and schools. The County’s Cultural Facilities Support Program (CFSP) Advisory Board recommends that Salt Lake County should have distinct and thoroughly defined criteria for partnerships between schools and community arts groups including:

1. Expressed and documented community need for the facility and size requirements/justifications

i. Identify potential and/or secured organization and anticipated utilization, including letters of intent or other documentation

i. Schools & third-party partners ii. Municipalities

iii. Community arts programs iv. Artists

2. Public Access i. Must demonstrate utilization opportunities for community

organizations ii. Must provide adequate and specific public access that is separate

from school programming spaces and student circulationiii. Doors, hallways, vestibules, lobbiesiv. Loading and unloading areasv. Parking

3. Describe in the narrative how the needs of an arts organization will be addressed by the school facilities, including but not limited to:

i. Rehearsal spacesii. Dressing areas

iii. Storage iv. Front-of-House functions – ticketing, patron services and

circulation, etc.

4. Provide defined procedures and policies for booking, advertising, and presentation of cultural activities that distinguishes the school's policies from the community art facility policies in effort to protect/preserve the



right of the public for free speech, as guaranteed under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.



Capital Expenses Criteria

Capital Expenses are defined in the Cultural Facilities Support Application expenses related to renovations or remodeling a facility.

1. Capital Expenses for all expenses related to renovations or remodeling must have a direct function to the artistic creation or operation and / or patron audience experience to that artistic creation or operation in the facility.

2. The CFSP Advisory Board will evaluate capital expense requests using standard GAAP** accounting practices related to Capital Expenses.

** “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” or “GAAP” means those conventions, rules, procedures, and practices adopted by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants



Regional Cultural Center Reference MaterialExcerpted from the AMS Planning & Research Final Report of the Salt Lake County Cultural Facilities Master Plan (adopted 2008-09).

Regional Cultural CentersSee Cultural Facilities Master Plan Report Summary, Page 21

“The Master Plan includes the development of up to three Regional Cultural Centers across the County. Each Regional Cultural Center will help meet the needs of a broad spectrum of organizations and individuals, including theater, dance, and music performances and rehearsals, and visual arts classes and exhibitions. Combining these needs into region-serving facilities will reduce redundancies, maximize efficiencies, and increase the impact of each Center. The Regional Cultural Centers are intended to be located along or near major transportation corridors, to efficiently serve residents of multiple communities.

“Each Regional Cultural Center should include:

A 500-seat, fully equipped theater suitable for drama, choral, instrumental,

dance, and small opera productions, as well as films, meetings, and lectures.

A 250-seat flexible-space theater, suitable for smaller scale performances and

multiple seating configurations.

Patron amenities including lobbies, restrooms, and concession space.

Performer amenities including shared and private dressing rooms, green rooms,

loading, storage, and intermediate space for assembly and preparation of scenic

elements, and modest accommodations for scenery, costumes, and props

maintenance, and lighting and sound equipment storage.

Two multi-use rehearsal rooms, 1,400 – 1,600 square feet each, equipped with

lighting, sound, and other appropriate equipment.

Three visual arts classrooms and two teaching studios with associated storage,

support and office spaces.

Gallery spaces totaling 2,800 square feet, with associated storage, support and

office spaces.

“Operation of the Centers may be assumed by the County or a joint management structure with a local government or non-profit organization.”



Regional Cultural Centers See AMS Final Report, pages 60-70

“The Master Plan includes the development of up to three Regional Cultural Centers in the central and far southern portions of the Salt Lake Valley. A Mid-Valley Regional Cultural Center and a Southeast Regional Cultural Center are identified in this study as Master Plan Projects. A Southwest Regional Cultural Center is identified as a longer term Master Plan Project, pending various factors, including anticipated population growth and attendant growth in arts and cultural activity.

“Each Regional Cultural Center will help meet the needs of a broad spectrum of organizations and individuals, including theater, dance and music performances and rehearsals, and visual arts classes and exhibitions. Combining these needs into region serving facilities will reduce redundancies, maximize efficiencies, and increase the impact of each Center.

“The Regional Cultural Centers are intended to be located along or near major transportation corridors, so that they may efficiently serve residents of multiple communities. The Regional Cultural Centers could be developed and operated in partnership between the municipalities they serve and the County. They could be co-located with County recreation centers, libraries, educational institutions, or other public facilities to realize efficiencies of parking and transportation, and to reinforce nodes of economic, cultural, or residential development. Opportunities for incorporation of a regional Cultural Center into private sector development might also be explored.

The Mid-Valley Center will serve the East and West Planning Areas, including Holladay, Taylorsville, Murray, and South Salt Lake City. Potential locations might be in the cities of Murray or Taylorsville, both of which are centrally located along major transportation corridors. The Southeast Valley Center would serve Draper, Sandy, Midvale, South Jordan, and Herriman. Sandy or Draper may be appropriate locations. The Southwest Valley Cultural Center could be located along the projected “Mountain View” interstate highway corridor and would serve residents of the fast- growing communities in the far southern part of the Southwest Planning Area, including Bluffdale, Herriman, Riverton, and South Jordan.”







Regional Cultural Centers See AMS Final Report, page 16 - PROPOSED REVISION March 26, 2013

Planning Area CommunitiesNORTH PLANNING AREA Emigration Canyon Township

Salt Lake CityEAST PLANNING AREA Big Cottonwood Canyon

(unincorporated)Canyon Rim (unincorporated)Cottonwood Heights CityEast Millcreek (unincorporated)Holladay CityMillcreek (unincorporated)Mount Olympus (unincorporated)Murray CityParley’s Canyon (unincorporated)South Salt Lake

WEST PLANNING AREA Kearns TownshipMagna TownshipTaylorsville CityWest Valley City

SOUTHEAST PLANNING AREA Draper CityMidvale CitySandy CitySandy Hills (unincorporated)Town of AltaWhite City (unincorporated)Willow Canyon (unincorporated)

SOUTHWEST PLANNING AREA Bluffdale CityCopperton TownshipHerriman CitySouthwest (unincorporated)Riverton CitySouth Jordan CityWest Jordan City


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