By Annie Knox and Jasen Lee | Deseret News
Not long after making a down payment on a home with expansive views of Utah Lake and only a few neighbors, Julie Fullmer returned from a trip abroad and could not find her way to her house.
“I was driving around and had no idea where I was going,” Fullmer recalled Wednesday. Dozens of homes had popped up around hers in the six months she spent in Asia. “I couldn’t see the lake at all. It was instantly built out.”
Eight years after she finally found her driveway, Vineyard continues to grow so quickly that it is almost unrecognizable from just half a year earlier. It is the fastest-growing community of more than 1,000 in the nation, new census figures suggest, and Fullmer, now its mayor, is working to make sure it can handle the rush of newcomers.
