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Show FEB 201998 UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Clipping Service r (80 I) 328-R678 SAI; r LAKE TRIBUNE i,F~"pgton Transportation Issue Won't Die . , : ..D1 ' BY CONNIE COYNE ... ~ . THE SALT LA'Xi: TRIBUNE ; FARMINGTON - Nevermind : that a Utah Department of Trans~ portaUon ,official. ,.ays the sta te :.never will .parmiC it, Forget that ~ many 1'1Q'mingt911 ' residents do ~ not want a huge' Intersection in~ terIering with the bucolic attitude ~ of the Clark Lane Historic Dis. trict. : Overlook the fact that the city : Planning Co~on last week :sent its proposed master trans'portatlon plan to the City Council without recommending a solution ,for the impact of increased traffic :at 200 West and State Street. Ignore the new ideas that con- sultants from Horrocks Engineers' unveiled Wednesday night at the City Council meeting. The fact is: The controversial proposal to build a street-level intersection at the corner of 400 West and State Street won't die. After defending the composition of a citizen committee that made recommendations to Horrocks personnel, Mayor Gregory ~ell said, " W,e had the sizzling Idea that residents objected to traffic on west State Street. Now you're telling us that 10,000 more cars per day is OK. We saw west State as the jewel of the city, and we have to preserve it. The engineers did exac tly what we want- ed." described two other alternatives But thilt, apparently, is exactly to relieve projected increased what Clark Lane Historic District traffic on State and 200 West: a and. many other city residents do European-style traffic turnabout not want. Some of the same resi- where vehicles from various dents who spoke at last week's routes would enter the circle and Planning Commission meeting ad- then leave it when they get to dressed the council Wednesday . ' their turnoff, and a flyover ramp with a $2.5 million price tag that night. One of them, Charles Clark, most thought was out of the city's again pointed out that Chris Liz- economic reach. zotte, UDOT's preservation speStill, Bell went back to the 400 cialist for the region, 'Says the West and State Street proposal: state will not give a permit for the "This was done for you [residents] intersection. Clark also said Liz- and for the interests of the [nearzolle still has not been contacted by] junior high. We 're weighing by anyone from Farmington City here values and traffic counts." or Horrocks Engineers. Kirk Huffaker, community-sernn Wednesday ni ght., Horrocks vices director for lhe Utah lI eri - " !age Foundation, said Thursday valuable national historic desigthat ,he and his boss, Executive Di- nation," he said. Before council members voted rector Lisbeth Henning, oppose the widened Intersection and to put the transportation plan off wonder why the city does not sim- to the March 4 meeting, Lagoon's ply build a pedestrian bridge Dick Andrew said, "This happens across 200 West, thus getting to be one of the happy occasions schoolchildren above th e in- when Farmington residents and Lagoon have the same interests. I creased traffic. Such an overpass, coupled with am pleased to see new proposals traffic-calming devices, Huffaker introduced tonight - roundsaid, would eliminate the need for abouts, the idea of an overpass. any construction encroaching on These are the simple solutions the historic district. "If you en- . that we endorse. They solve the croach on this district - even by problem and preserve the historic moving a house - you lose the district. " |
