THE PROBLEM
Big decisions are made without you
Rezonings, developments, approvals... you find out after the fact, if at all. The meetings happen. The votes get taken. And most people in the neighborhood never knew it was coming.
The small-town feel is slipping away
Our sense of community, safety, freedom of space — the things the rest of the valley had already traded away. That's starting to change here too.
THE PROMISE
Someone who actually lives here should have a say in what happens here.
Not developers. Not state mandates. Not whoever showed up to the meeting nobody told you about. Johnathan is running because the people who chose the Southwest Valley deserve someone in the legislature who's fighting for them first — and that's the only reason he's running.
These aren't positions borrowed from a party platform. They're the things Johnathan hears from his neighbors every single day — on Mountain View Corridor, at the school pickup line, and at the kitchen table.
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Your voice before the vote
Too many decisions get made before residents know they're happening. Your voice shouldn't require showing up to a Wednesday night meeting to count. Johnathan will fight for real community input on development, zoning, and infrastructure — reaching people through the channels they already use, before votes are taken, not after.
Johnathan believes government works best when it's closest to the people it serves — and that means bringing decisions back to the neighborhood level, where they belong.
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Protect what you came here for
The open space, the safe streets, the neighborhood feel — these aren't amenities. They're the reason you're here. Johnathan will stand against overdevelopment that ignores what existing residents actually want, and hold the line on the character that makes this corner of the valley worth living in.
He'll defend private property rights, oppose government overreach into how you use your land, and fight against any mandate — state or federal — that forces density on communities that don't want it.
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Growth on our terms, not theirs
Growth is coming — but it should come with roads that are ready, schools that aren't already full, and communities that shaped the plan rather than inherited it. Johnathan will push for infrastructure before density, every time. Planned growth or no growth. Those are the only two options worth considering.
Johnathan is a fiscal conservative who believes taxpayers shouldn't be left holding the bill for infrastructure that developers should have funded in the first place.h
OUR CORE VALUES
These are the issues. The only way anything changes is if the right person is in the legislature — and that starts on March 17.
Local Control vs. State Mandates
Your city council should have the final say on your neighborhood. Not Salt Lake City.
The Utah Legislature has been quietly stripping cities of their authority to manage their own growth — overriding local planning commissions in favor of developer-friendly state mandates. Johnathan will oppose any legislation that takes land-use decisions out of the hands of locally elected officials. The government closest to the people governs best.
Growth & Development
The question is whether residents had a say in it.
14,000 homes are already entitled in Herriman alone — approved and waiting to be built. Johnathan's standard is simple: infrastructure before density, every time. Roads, schools, and utilities should be funded and ready before new developments are approved — not scrambled for after the fact.
Infrastructure & Traffic
The roads and schools you depend on should keep pace with the community. They're not.
Mountain View Corridor already carries 40,000 daily trips and is projected to handle 150,000 by 2050. Johnathan will fight for transportation funding that reflects actual growth, not optimistic underestimates — and hold the line that developers, not taxpayers, should fund the infrastructure their projects demand.
Education & Schools
Your kids' school is getting more crowded every year. That's not inevitable — it's a planning failure.
Herriman High is projected to reach 4,700 students within five years. Copper Mountain Middle may need 55 portable classrooms just to keep pace. Johnathan will push for school capacity to be part of every development approval conversation — and fight for state funding formulas that keep up with actual enrollment growth rather than chasing it.
Johnathan is a Utah guy. His family has been here for nearly 20 years and this has always been home. He's a licensed plumber with over a decade in the trade, a union member for eleven years, and a father of three who coaches, volunteers, and serves in his local congregation. As a young man he spent two years on a full-time mission in the Dominican Republic, teaching and serving families, and came home fluent in Spanish and with a deep respect for people who work hard and ask only for a fair shot.
He chose the Southwest Valley because it still had what most of the valley had already lost — open space, safe neighborhoods, a genuine sense of community, and the kind of place where his kids could actually grow up. He's a lifelong Republican and constitutional conservative who believes in limited government, individual liberty, and the free market — values he holds not because they're popular in Utah, but because he's seen firsthand what happens when government forgets them.
He's not running to represent the party in this community. He's running to represent this community in the party — and that's a different job entirely. Johnathan doesn't have a decade of party committee experience. What he has is a decade of showing up early, working hard, and knowing exactly what this community is up against because he lives it.
Johnathan Harris Brooks
Utah House District 48 – Candidate
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