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Show Group Opposes II. Access Route Petition Submitted in Protest Of 'Hastily Planned Scheme5 By RAY M. BAYLES Chronicle News Editor A proposed access road to the University Medical Center has been strongly protested in a petition by 225 residents of the Federal Heights area, the 'Salt Lake City Commission said yesterday. THE PETITION, which was received Tuesday, attacked a University plan which proposed an extension of East South Temple from University Street (1340 East) to the peripheral road near the main entrance to the campus. The project would necessitate the condemnation of property prop-erty valued at nearly $100,000.- The Commission has decided to take another look at the proposal after receiving the petition. A motion was adopted which will require a public hearing before any work can begin on the road. UNIVERSITY BUSINESS Vice-President Paul W. Hodson said the plan was submitted to the State Road Commission and the City Commission Com-mission four years ago. Both commissions turned down the request because of lack of funds for the project. The University has requested that the attorney general give an opinion on possibilities of other financing fi-nancing plans. " The petition said that this hastily planned and ill-conceived scheme would raze and obliterate two historic park landmarks, condemn con-demn private homes, remove private pri-vate property from the tax rolls, create a new traffic impasse and totally disregard the' desires and consent of residents of this fine old city area. "There are other alternatives," the petition said, "which are available to Univesity planners plan-ners without such sacrifice to this residential community." The Commission was asked to resist and prevent any and all such alternations as planned for East South Temple, even though the cost of such construction may be underwritten by the Board of Regents. Re-gents. A UNIVERSITY spokesman said that U administrators have been trying to have the road constructed for four years. He said the biggest block at the present time is lack of . money to purchase two houses which now stand in the way.. Traffic Traf-fic from the north to that section of the city is hampered by the twisting one-way streets. An un-coneested un-coneested route from that section of the city will be necessary when the Medical Center has been put into full swing, he added. Most of the City Commissioners said there is no money to purchase rights-of-ways, and suggested that 5th South offered a better route. Streets Commissioner George B. Catmull said he was against the proposed extension. "First of all, the money required would take my budget for the entire year. I also think that it is wrong to put traffic through that nice residential area," he added. "More than 80 per cent of the city's population is south of 5th South. I think the road, should come in from 5th South (JJ. S, 40) where we already- have excellent access. That route would save as much 'driving time, and would save the : taxpayers a lot of money, he concluded. |