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Show 212 and its visual enormity blends in with the longitudinal magnitude of the mountains themselves. From Daybreak, residents only see the horizontal side of the mine, not its vertical depths. The insides of the Bingham Canyon can only otherwise be viewed from the top of the Oquirrh Mountains. Plenty of residents do see its bowels when going to work, but when residents are home, playing in the park or relaxing on the front porch, the Bingham Canyon Mine is just part of the visually stunning background. Daybreak is a growing community with 20,000 residential units, making it, according to Rio Tinto Kennecott, the "largest master-planned community in Utah" (para. 3). Daybreak is not just about the homes, though. It is a community of corporate subjects with schools, shops, cafes, restaurants, community gardens, parks, public pools, medical centers, and hiking trails. There are also plenty of ways families can engage with the community: Daybreak has soccer programs, family fun nights, and handfuls of clubs, including a children's safety club, a Bible study club, a wine club, an iron pig cookoff, a homeschool club, a radio club, a rod and gun club, indoor volleyball, a Bunco club, a book night for women, and even a girls night out club. Daybreak is all the things that a community wants without the troubles that come from living in the city - such as noise pollution, congested traffic, and the paved paradises of parking lots, skyscrapers, and drive-by malls. These are just some of the reasons why Time's magazine, Money, ranked South Jordan, UT, where Daybreak is located, as the nation's 18th of 100 top places to live in 2014 (Money, 2014). It is no secret that this land was once an environmental catastrophe. Rio Tinto Kennecott is forthright about this on its website where a factsheet called "Daybreak's Environmental History" is easily locatable for potential residents. In the introduction, Rio |
