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Show Woods Cross Seeks Trees For Highway Land WOODS CROSS Despite continual delays from the state. Woods Cross officials have announced they want to plant trees and try to "beautify" a strip of state highway land that separates the city. MONTHS AFTER asking the state highway department to assist the city in the renovation renova-tion of strips along Interstate-15. Interstate-15. adjacent to Woods Cross' boundaries. Mayor Lawrence Urry said no response has been received. He said the city needs the state's approval before trees can be planted along the state-owned state-owned strip of land. ONCE THE approval is granted, the mayor said Woods Cross will ask the state to allow them to do the planning plan-ning for the project. Trees will be planted along the east and west portions of the highway inside the Woods Cross city limits. Mayor Urry said. HE SAID the city will have to worry about funding the project and paying for the trees, but said the city wants to ask the state highway department depart-ment to help prepare the land for the renovation. The state, he said, will have nothing to do with the funding aspect of the project. THE CITY'S beautification committee suggested the planting of trees to act as a noise barrier for residents living liv-ing close to the interstate. Some residents have even volunteered to help plant the tres and take care of them on a yearly basis. THE PROPOSED project will include "planting trees and landscaping along the highway, but nothing more," Mayor Urry said, mdm |
