Paige Albrecht on Public Service, Parks & Preserving Old Lehi

Paige Albrecht shares her journey from softball advocate to Lehi City Council, exploring parks, historic preservation, transportation, cancer survival, and community service in Lehi, Utah.

Paige Albrecht on Public Service, Parks & Preserving Old Lehi

Paige Albrecht shares her journey from softball advocate to Lehi City Council, exploring parks, historic preservation, transportation, cancer survival, and community service in Lehi, Utah.

Paige Albrecht on Public Service, Parks, and Preserving Old Lehi, Utah

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Roots and Branches of Lehi

Chapter 2: Meet Paige Albrecht: A Former Neighbor and Attorney

Chapter 3: Paige's Background — From Military Brat to Lehi Resident

Chapter 4: Paige's Journey into Public Service

Chapter 5: Community Engagement and Social Media

Chapter 6: Collaborating with Neighboring Cities

Chapter 7: Preserving Old Lehi

Chapter 8: Exciting Developments in Lehi

Chapter 9: Family Park and All-Abilities Recreation

Chapter 10: Personal Reflections on Cancer

Chapter 11: Raising a Special Needs Child

Chapter 12: Transportation and Infrastructure

Chapter 13: Community Involvement and Volunteerism

Chapter 14: Final Thoughts and Reflections

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A longtime Lehi resident, city council member, and attorney shares how a canceled softball league led to a decade of civic service — and why she chose Lehi as the hometown she never had.

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In this episode of Roots & Branches of Lehi , Ryan Harding sits down with Paige Albrecht , a longtime Lehi resident, city council member, attorney, mother, and passionate advocate for community service. Although Paige did not grow up in Lehi, she has lived here for more than two decades and intentionally chose Lehi as the place where her children could experience the stability, traditions, and sense of belonging that come from having a hometown.

Paige shares how a canceled men's softball league unexpectedly led her into Lehi public service, first as a regular observer of city meetings, then on the Planning Commission, and eventually on the Lehi City Council . Her story offers a thoughtful look at Lehi, Utah's growth, city planning, parks, transportation challenges, volunteer culture, and the effort required to preserve small-town connection in a rapidly growing community.

This interview also explores deeper personal themes, including Paige's cancer journey, raising a son with special needs, the value of public service, and her belief that local government is not "they" but "us" — neighbors serving neighbors. Her perspective captures both the challenges and blessings of modern Lehi: traffic, growth, historic preservation, parks, families, local businesses, and the ongoing work of building a community for future generations.

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Welcome to Roots and Branches of Lehi, the podcast where we get to know the faces, stories and lives that make up our community. I'm Ryan Harding, and I started this podcast as a way for us all to connect with the people we live alongside. Growing up in a small town, I learned that connections go beyond blood. They're built through shared experiences, friendships, and the moments we celebrate together. Each week, we'll sit down with someone new from Lehi to share their unique story, their passions, and what they love most about living here. So whether you've been here for years or just arrived, join us as we deepen our roots and reach out to our branches, one story at a time.

Welcome Paige. We have Paige Albrecht here today. My former neighbor, actually.

Former neighbor, yeah. So we get to reunite again. And also my helper with attorney things too, because you still work there.

Which you know I can neither confirm nor deny. You have privilege.

Yes. So yeah, because you — I like it.

So tell us a little bit about yourself. Tell us, did you grow up here in Lehi? Where are you from originally?

No, I wish. I would love to claim to be a hometown girl. I'm wondering how long you have to live here before you can — I think you qualify now. I think you're at that point. It's been 22 years. I think that qualifies you. I'm from all over. I was born a military brat in Hawaii. My dad was in the Army. He was an Army Ranger, but he was putting himself through school and all that. So after they left the service, they came back here to Provo and he got his master's at BYU. Went to work for IBM, which anybody who's worked there, they'll tell you stands for "I've Been Moved." You could move up faster if you went where the jobs were. So we lived in — let's see — South Carolina, which is where he was born and raised, North Carolina, Maryland just outside of DC, and then I went to high school in Montana. Then BYU for school. Took a gap — three years in Connecticut for a while as a nanny. So all over. But for that reason, it was great because I know people all over and I've experienced a lot of different environments. But I really wanted my kids to have a hometown.

So also cold, yes. That's exactly — that's why when people complain about winters here in Lehi, I'm like, ah, I mean it's cold, but you don't understand bitter cold. You know, when that wind chill goes right to your bones.

Exactly. I tell you what, early morning seminary at 6:35 in the dark of Montana — that's when you either have to have really strong faith or really strong parents.

Either one. I can relate because again, I remember those days very well. Getting out of the shower, I had hair back then, and it freezing because it was wet. You're trying to run off to school and stuff like that.

Yeah, my dad was nice and he tried to make room in the garage for me to park my car, which was nice because otherwise, outside it just was cold. I grew up reading Little House on the Prairie books and they would talk about the rope from the barn to the house so they could get firewood. I thought, yeah, then I moved to Montana. You don't see the ground for many months.

Whereas here it's a little bit nicer. Obviously you raised your family here in Lehi, right?

My boys — Alex was my second son was, oh gosh, a year or so when we moved here. I had three boys and so they don't really remember anything outside of Lehi. They want badly to raise their families here. It's changed a lot, but the things that we love about it all remain.

So then tell me, you mentioned you went to BYU and stuff like that. What did you study?

I studied English at BYU. Qualified to do anything and nothing. Humanities. I thought for a long time that maybe I would teach. Then the kids came along. I graduated with one on my lap and one in my tummy and I knew if I didn't finish then, I might not be able to. So I pushed hard to the end, got my bachelor's, and then 20 years later I went back last spring and got my master's in public service.

So let's talk about that. You've obviously gone into public service. You're on the city council, and you've been there for a little while now.

I think I've been there for a little while. I did Planning Commission before city council — I did that for three years. And back in the day we had a board of adjustments for hearing land use appeals. We've moved to hearing examiner now, like most cities have. Did Board of Adjustments for a year. So I've been in public service for about 10 years now.

And what sparked that? Why?

I'd love to say it was some noble cause, but I was ticked off. I think like a lot of people, there were some things that were bugging me. When we were down in college, my kids' dad loved to play softball with his buddies and they had a softball team, the Great Bambinos, and just really loved it. When we moved here to Lehi, he didn't have his own team and he was signed up as a sub and they'd call him to come play sometimes, but he wasn't guaranteed a game every week. He missed it. So I thought, oh, I'll be the fantastic wife and I bought him his own team for Christmas one year. I wrote this really long poem about playing ball. For a couple years he had his own softball team in the Lehi men's softball league and loaded it up with his buddies. We'd all spend those evenings down at the park with our kids. It was just a really great experience. We loved it. Ten teams in the league. And one year I went to sign them up and they said, we're not doing that anymore. I said, why aren't you doing that anymore? They said, we don't have the space, we don't have the park space. I said, what's wrong with Veterans Park? They said it's really too small, they're hitting balls into the street, it's a liability. A lot of reasons that on this side of it make a ton of sense, and on that side of it just made me really upset. I thought, surely we can overcome these problems. Ten teams, talking about 150 guys and whatever their families are. So I did a little research and I went into city council and I looked up the bios of the city council members and made a note of which ones mentioned parks and baseball. I had researched volleyballs and what it would cost to put up nets, and I marched my little red wagon into city council and stood up at the podium. I don't know what I expected to happen, but nothing did. They felt bad about it and wished they could help. Mayor Wilson said, we're going to bring it back. I said, when? He said, whenever we can. I left and just felt really defeated. I thought, it's not like I'm not willing to put in the work, I'll help you make it happen and all things like that. But there was a lot I didn't understand about budgeting and space availability and scheduling and things like that.

But as part of that experience, you realized something?

I realized that I wasn't just mad. I had really enjoyed it. I stayed through the whole meeting and I went to the next meeting, and then I started going to the Planning Commission meetings. For the better part of eight years I went to both meetings every week before I had any kind of office. I loved it. When I was on Planning Commission I still went to the City Council meetings. I just — the whole process was fascinating to me. The patience, the persistence, the investment that the people who are serving have in the community, and the things that they go through to make things happen. The whole thing, I just found it really satisfying. And I had never intended to run for office. I was there for the entertainment value and because somebody else was putting the kids to bed. I would sit in the back corner and for a long time you could tell that they were like, nervous — what are you doing here? Are you going to sell us down the river or whatever? I really wasn't. I was just observing the process, learning, and figuring out how all those pieces fit together and work. So when Mark Johnson, our current mayor, decided he was going to step away from Council, he asked me to run for a seat. What I've learned since is that with a lot of women in politics, it takes that tap on the shoulder before they even consider that it's something they might be interested in doing. I mulled it over and we talked about it as a family and decided yeah, we would. I haven't ever had to run against someone. I was running for an empty seat. And then the second time I was running for my seat. And the third time. So it was never confrontational. The whole confrontational aspect of campaigning is really hard for me. I don't like that, because most people don't like that. I have a lot of respect and admiration usually for everybody in the race, and it's hard for me to sit and say, oh yeah, I'd be better than them. Anybody who's willing to throw their hat in the ring, all the respect in the world, just because it is a huge time commitment. You're doing a lot of different things. I like that you really enjoy that part of it — being involved in it. I think that shows how much you enjoy it or how much of a good fit it is for you. If you want to have any chance of getting good at something, you have to spend the time on it, and if you don't like it you'll never get good at it. Well, and in politics, if you don't like it, you're not going to last. My kids will come home and say, oh mom, somebody said this horrible thing about you on Facebook today. But what you didn't see about the rest of my day is I got to interact with this resident and I got to attend the Historical Society marker unveiling, and I got to go to the senior center and have lunch with people there. Those aren't the public parts, but those are the parts that are just so deeply satisfying and you feel like those really are what matters. So you try and shake off the rest.

How do you tune out the negativity? We're living in a social media society now.

People have greater access to public servants than they ever have, especially on a local level. People can say things on — and Paige comes in and says something back. I usually try and count to 10 at least. From the beginning, I was actually there when they formed Lehi Link, which of course is the juggernaut of social media here in Lehi. I was reading the initial goals for it just yesterday because of the anniversary — it's been like nine years. It was like, to bring the community together, and unity was mentioned, things like that. And all too often the opposite happens, which is super unfortunate. But I get it because it's an easy, accessible way to air frustrations and things like that. It's like the nightly news — 100 wonderful things happen for every story, but that's what sells and that's what brings people. Even you said, hey, I was ticked off, that's why I went. That did start that process. The extra pieces of knowledge I gained after that about how everything works — I would still be ticked off, I'd be just like... but the end of that story, the moral of that story is, 10 years later last summer I posted a picture of my oldest boy playing with his brother on his own softball team in the Lehi men's softball league. It took a decade, but we brought it back. We finally were able to get the park space, we got the lights up and running, managed to move the mink farm, all those dominoes fell finally in the right order. That was a super proud moment for me because I thought, promise kept. It took a decade, but well, somebody that's enjoying that now probably — I think that's good for them to know, hey, that took 10 years to make happen. Most things in life, we're enjoying the fruits of probably other people's labors and even generations before us. But that's an example — somebody else gets to enjoy that now and they don't understand, hey, a lot of effort went into that, and in some cases years. And it's not like it was me — I had nothing to do with it. It was so many departments and staff and so many people that worked for it. When they said, hey, we don't want to end this, we want to keep it continuing, they were telling the truth. They were just — it takes some time and the effort. It's like that with just about everything. I think it's harder now because we're so much more of a transient society. Establishing those roots in a hometown is becoming rarer and rarer because you move where the jobs are or you go to a different area. It's hard to convince people, invest your time and your money and your hours of service and your family's effort into building a community that you're moving away from next year.

One of my hobbies that I love to do — I love to go back and read old articles in the Free Press from 100 years ago.

I get teased about it a lot, actually. There are articles about how they sold trees — like your family could sponsor a tree for a buck or whatever. Not Christmas trees — the trees that are growing there now. They didn't have money in the city coffers, so they let people contribute that way and they planted these trees. A lot of the descendants of people who bought those still live here, but a lot of the people who enjoy those trees have no idea that it was a huge sacrifice for families a hundred years ago. They did not put them in for themselves — they did it for the descendants, for the people who come after. Yesterday my youngest boy came home and he said, Mom, are you cutting down the trees at Wines? I looked at him like, son, I've been here all day. He said, yeah, those on the southeast side. I'm like, those have been through their life span. A lot of people will drive by and say, why is the city cutting that down? We're not doing it because we had nothing to do with it. On a Tuesday morning, they've been through their life span. I said, son, go back by and drive and look and you'll see trees at all different ages planted throughout the park because our parks department has been planning for this for 20 years. They've gradually been putting them in, and now this one is half dead, in danger of falling over, so yes, they're taking it out. Not me. I represent to him the city, right? It's that way for a lot of people. If you sit back and take the logic and you think, what possible reason could they have for cutting down this tree? Well, it's not to tick you off or to make sure that you have to sit in the sun for the parade. Maybe think a little deeper. Maybe it's not nefarious.

We probably often go to the negative. And we live in a world where especially federal politics, we tend to — they're obviously evil, whatever side you disagree with. That's one of the purposes of this podcast — just to make things smaller, make things more community, because if you know the person that you hate, you're probably not going to hate them.

It's so true. I love meeting with people for that very reason, because it's not a faceless whatever. I'm not to them and they're not to me, and you can always find that common ground. The bridge building is so important in politics and it becomes more and more rare. It's just so polarized right now, and it's taking some of the enjoyment out of it. There's not the same sense of camaraderie.

We are doing some things to help though. We recently started — I call it on my calendar the North Utah County Task Force, but basically the city councils from surrounding cities meet together about once a quarter. We try and do it anytime there's a fifth Tuesday, because we all have our meetings on Tuesday. We talk about things like transportation and common problems that our cities are facing, and try and make it to where our communities work in harmony instead of always being at odds, in terms of my space versus your space. We are growing together and that cooperation is going to be important. Forging those bridges and making those relationships is going to be key. We've been doing it for a few months now. It was incredibly helpful during the issues with the school district, because that was really uncharted waters for all of us. It was a really difficult issue and it was nice to be able to bounce ideas off of each other and to know which direction everyone's going. Ultimately we went in some different directions, but knowing what page everybody was on was helpful — knowing what issues everybody was talking about, things maybe your city's thought about that my city hasn't, and how could we work together in terms of busing and things like that. It was really helpful to forge those relationships. Right now we have a really strong focus on transportation, making sure that we can be a unified voice in terms of lobbying for funding with the legislature and with Mountainland Association of Governments, and finding solutions that work for every city and not just help mine and screw yours. Good things are coming with that, I think.

For sure. Government moves slowly.

You think it'd be just as simple as go down to the bank of government and write a check to Construction Company A and it's up, let's get started. It's hard to look around and say, you don't plan, because there's planning going all the time. It's just not always on the same page. There's always funding issues, and if we want nice things we have to pay for them. There's no question that the growth has exceeded really beyond expectations. The positive side of that is it's great and everybody wants to live here. The negative side of that is it comes with some issues. We're playing catch-up.

But it sounds like you're doing a good job. Mayor Johnson was saying that UDOT has accepted your guys' projections.

They had lower projections and you guys were saying, hey, these are the ones, and they now agree with you. That means things happen quicker. They're not building way far behind. I think they're always building behind, but not as far behind. And the funding follows the construction, which is something I didn't understand early on. I'm like, people are coming, just build it now. With what? You don't have the revenue to pay for the roads until you have the residents. So it's a chicken and egg scenario. It's a tricky tightrope, a balancing act. In cities with predictable, reasonable growth, I'm sure it's a lot more manageable. When you have explosive growth like this, you're going to have issues. But we sit in the same traffic as everybody else. I always giggle a little even to myself because I'm like, all these cars are in my way and I'm not getting where I need to go. Then I think, and I'm the one for the guy behind me that's in the way. When people say, my traffic's gotten so bad — if you're sitting in it, then you are it. It's the same thing when people say, oh man, there goes the farms, there goes the horses, the pastures. But you built your house too. When do you stop it? But then do you stop having kids? Because it's your kids that are actually the ones moving there. My kids would love to settle in their hometown. They're probably going to have to start out in other places and then move home, which is totally reasonable. It is true that it's that balance between property rights and —

It's so funny we'd be talking about this because we moved here to downtown Lehi partly because it is a place in Lehi that feels like old Lehi. There's a lot of things here that just haven't changed. My husband, two weeks ago, the house next door to the one where we live went up for sale and it's from 1899. Old brick house on the corner, been here for ages. We've got the historical society doing some digging on whose it was and the history of it. If you want to control what happens on a piece of property, the very best way is to own it yourself. It's hard to tell your neighbors you can't do that when it's their property, so you walk the line between preserving property rights and also making sure that others have the right to enjoy their property as well. That's becoming a trickier balance as Lehi grows, because a lot of those infill spaces are growing together. Uses are coming up against each other. We're discovering things in the zoning, adjusting things like that. I told my husband, what if we don't buy it? We learned out-of-state investors wanted to buy it and we were afraid it was just going to be bulldozed and duplexes put in. We thought, it's time to put our money where our mouth is in terms of preserving old Lehi. If we want it, then we have to. That's fair. Weekends for the rest of my life repointing brick and refinishing floors. 1899 — there's some needed work on that place. There are some mystery jars in the crawl space. We don't know what's in them. They're old. We're hoping it's not explosive nitroglycerin or something. We're going to have to face that at some point.

Let me know the radius that I need to be away from.

Your building's close enough to that house, you'll know. I'll hear it.

Good to know.

So from a city perspective, anything cool coming our way?

So many cool things. I keep telling the different city departments because they're humble and modest to a fault. There's a city employee newsletter that goes out that talks about everything everybody's doing. I'm like, don't we publish this? Because people need to know how hard you guys are working. We've got the new Civic Center. It's going to have the new library. You can see it from here, actually. Super excited. One of the things that brought my family here to Lehi is it had things we were looking for. It had the Legacy Center, and not a whole lot of towns of this size did. It had a library, and there were a lot of towns in North Utah County that didn't have their own library. That library had parts of the old junior high cafeteria, the roof was leaking. We had originally thought we'd be able to build the new Civic Center around it and incorporate it, and it just turned out to be cost prohibitive and not worth pursuing. That should be done looking at late next year, which is really exciting. I can see it out my living room window. It'll have a library, it'll have the council offices, and then just community space.

How can people use the community space?

I don't know if you've been in the Broadbent Room in the new Public Service building, the police station. When that was built, it was a case of an old building being torn down. I was mad. I was like, oh no, we can't. They said, Paige, come on a tour with us. I did, and by the end of the tour I'm like, I can't believe nobody's died here yet. It had some issues. In terms of being able to fix it, anything's possible with enough time and money, but it was on adobe, stick mud — there just really wasn't a way to make it safe. The Broadbent descendants actually said, what do you think? They tore that down to make the new police station. Perfect location, they needed it badly. Their old station didn't have appropriate evidence storage and things like that. They built this new police station, but one of the things they built in it was a community room. They call it the Broadbent Community Room. On the walls they used brick they saved from the old Broadbent building, and they have a little stained glass window in there, some things that honor Joseph Adams, the officer that passed away for whom the building is named, and some mementos from that time. That community room is booked really heavily. People use it like crazy. Anybody can come in and rent it. We've had wedding receptions there and barbecues. My parents had their 50th wedding anniversary dinner in the Broadbent Room. Chairs, tables, little kitchen, audio visual equipment, things like that. We found that there's a need for those kind of community spaces where people can gather. Some of those rooms in the new Civic Center are going to be like that, and they're being constructed in a way that can be closed off to be bigger or smaller. People could run classes there, they could do receptions, they could really use them as community rooms. It does two things: it gives spaces for people to gather for pretty much any purpose, but also it gives us room to grow for the future. We are planning for this to be a building that will be iconic for hundreds of years to come. This is not a throwaway modern architecture steel and glass cookie cutter kind of a building. It is very different, and because of that it can be polarizing. But we put a lot of thought into how we wanted it to look, how we wanted the architecture to be classic, hearken back to Lehi roots, but also be a building that's super functional and will last the community needs for many years to come. The current city hall is largely unchanged from when I moved here 22 years ago. If you think about the change in population, the staff is stacked like cordwood in the building. It's not excessive staff — they get amazing things done considering how few there are. But there's just no place to put them. We're bigger before, so we need more people doing, and we're still going to use the existing City Hall. Planning services are going to be in there, a couple other departments, but we need the space. We want to be prudent with the expenditure and make it something that'll last for generations. The police station will be sufficient until we're at full buildout, which will probably come in the next 50 years.

Can people go on the website to book the community room?

The Broadbent room is like 50 bucks. It's very reasonable. I think you book it the same way you do with the pavilions at the parks. It's just a great, beautiful space.

Again, nice to have that space to be able to house all the different things that are going on here. The renderings look beautiful.

Right now it looks like a bunch of steel wrapped in plastic and wrap, but I see the vision. I see it going up here all the time.

We just opened Family Park, which is amazing. We had really three regional parks projects on the map as far as what we wanted to do. One of them was the Miller Roads sports park down off of Pioneer and 1700. One was the Dry Creek Reservoir project, which is a cooperative with the county and feds, and it was not primarily recreational — it was to serve flood control. And then Family Park. What was happening is we were doing a smidge here and a smidge there, and it was like nothing was ever done and usable. It was this 20-year whatever. As a council we made a really difficult decision, but we decided to focus on one and getting it done, and then move our focus to another one. The Park Tax really helped. That was a huge amount of what helped us get Family Park to completion. It's just an amazing facility. Anybody who's been up there — there are people who have concerns about when it has to be closed and how it has to be washed, and we've already had some vandalism. But there is such a positive vibe up there. I have a special needs son myself, and for a long time Lehi didn't have anything like that. When he was quite young, I visited my sister in Connecticut and she took me to an all-abilities park. I was blown away. I'm like, oh my gosh, he can use the swings, he can safely go — his walker can go up the ramps to the play structure so he can go to the slide on his own. I didn't even realize stuff like that was out there. I came home and I sat down with our Parks Director Steve Marchbanks, and he started small with what he had. We got handicap accessible swings at Wines. Those are great fun. I see more typically abled people using them than special needs people because they're fun. But it was a longtime dream of his, a longtime dream of mine, and a lot of people's, to make a park that would be fun and great for everyone but also accessible to people for whom there really wasn't anything else. I think it's just a gem. It's a jewel. It's going to be a wonderful amenity for Lehi residents for many years to come. It's a generational park, a regional draw. Now we'll move on to the next thing.

I remember when that first Park Tax had come out and ended up not passing, but I'm glad that we're doing parks. I like it when the money's spent here.

One of the things I discovered on PTA is that quite often we would have a fundraiser and then say, okay, what are we going to spend it on? That always frustrated me for two reasons. First, I think a lot of people are much more willing to open their wallets if they know where it's going. If you can say, hey, we need this play structure on the playground or we need six new tether balls, people are more likely to contribute to that. The other reason was, if we don't have pressing needs, if we don't already know what we need it for, why are we doing it? Why go to the effort if you don't have a project in mind? That's what I really love about the park tax. There's a huge vetting process. People come in with their projects and there's some very specific criteria — arts, culture, parks, all of those things. There's accountability. We had reports just two weeks ago where they came in and said, hey, this is what we spent the money on, this is how many people have benefited, pictures, slideshow, things like that. You can have that direct knowledge of exactly where it went and the huge accountability that comes with that. The other thing I like about the park tax is it sunsets. If the citizens don't want to renew it after 10 years, they don't. It's not a thing where you have to vote it down — it automatically expires unless it's approved on the ballot and renewed. It's how we got Family Park across the finish line, having those funds. It does a lot of things that maybe people don't see. Someone was joking because they got new bathrooms over at the Literacy Center because they only had one stall. They're showing pictures of bathrooms and everybody's like, okay, good job. Maybe it's not exciting, but it's super exciting to them. When you've got a whole bunch of kids in there and you don't have one stall, that's a big deal.

Probably part of the reason the school district thing passed a little bit too — we want the money here.

Paige Albrecht on Public Service, Parks & Preserving Old Lehi