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Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service (801) 328-8678 SALT LAKE TRIBUNE , I(~an'irie~~~ A Battle Over Famtirtgt6rt"Area~~. >~ ' : ~ ij-,,,>, -,·;: ':~ ': '" ,1lb ' ~ r"'" -'; ~ ",i' '1,;r;, -r ' ' -'. '. '. . ..,.,: , 8YCONNIE COYNE THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE FARMINGTON - At' 6:30 p.m., no one sat or stood in City Hall's multipurpose room. The cleaning crew barely had packed up the vacuums and headed , home. A half-hour later, there was not an empty seat in the house, even"though the agenda for last Thursday ilight's Farmington Planning .Commission meeting appeared routine. " ,~: :'; ", ,,'_" 1/ . , :,::.~ But the second item - a h:eiuing on proposed roa~ improvements to accommodate projected traffic increases - pitted residents and fans of the city's historic Clark Lane district against those who live in newer homes on the expanding west side. Faced by several hundred residents, the commission backed cdf 'a ' proposal ~td '~create a major intersection ~d access to Interstate 15 ;by cirving up the historic ":'i""'J.i.!t.,- " ~-'~~ -:,~,,! ., ,,<> f'l'I- , . ' .;.->: district. It looks like the .Clark Lane folks 'won the battle. Whether they will win the war is anyone's guess. At stake is the preservation of the Clark Lane area and the safety of children attending Farmington Junior High that fronts 200 West, also the existing southbound t~ I:}? and nearby Farmington blocks long on both sides of and his family settled there . his 'wagon up a canyon in 1849 feed crops for horses and cattle. mE~IaII.lily , permission to pr~ctice a Um~~::';l; The Church of Jesus of Saints and was one of the few successful examples of the Brigham. YOUJ;lg-directed communalism. Clark later ,quipped that this rule of shared work and shared prosperity might work wen only among families - and even then it was a strain. The inevitable increase in population as Farmington residents sell off huge tracts of land or develop family properties on their own puts pressure on the city. Growth is expected to push the traffic load on State Street and on 200 West from about 5,000 cars per day now to between 12,000 and 17,000 cars per day over the next two decades. Most of that increase will come from the west side, because the east side of the city - which backs up to a wall of mountains - is almost built-out. So far, the city has spent $49,000 on the transporp .. See FARMINGTON, Page 8-4 - ,/ |
