Show Commissioners Hear Hear- Hear Boulevard Residents A lot of oC people had a lot to say about the proposed further development of oC Davis Boulevard when some hundred residents of oC the affected area met with the Davis County Commissioners along with the county planning planting and state road department representatives representatives representatives rep rep- this week weck A PETITION containing 1100 signatures signatures sig sig- natures of ot people opposing the construction of oC a boulevard In that area was presented to the commissioners b bv by Richard Howland Howland Rowland How How- land spokesman for the group of oC irate citizens whose to it was the safety factor fac fac- tor The felt Celt the increased fic would be hazardous for tor their children Most of oC th e a residents who spoke during luring the meeting stated they had not been heen told toM of oC the count counts count's s 's plans for Cor developing this route roule to help funnel traffic from Crom Cromas as far Car north as Centerville onto unto Interstate Il 15 18 at a a point south f t 11 Lane in North Salt Lake l The They said if it the they had been t told ld tot t of ot this they would not have built buill homes in the area RODNEY SUTTON acting county planner explained that the plan for Cor a foot wide thruway had been put on ou the master pl plan n for Cor roads thought to be necessary for COl Davis County back In 1952 When funds were not available i to 10 build it that wide it wa was later programmed for Cor an foot 80 wide road lie He said that plans for Cor loc location tion of oC the Davis aqua y duct were held up p for Cor to years ears while this road was in the programming programming pro pro- gramming stages 7 IT WAS FIRST thought that if It 1 it were were built wide enough it would alleviate some of oCt the he north north- I south traffic on Orchard D Drive lve which was considered too narrow and had so many r residences al already already al- al l ready built along it that the x l pense pease of oC widening it would l e e prohibitive q Mr Sutton n Curt further her explained d t. t att l portions of oC the Ilie road have been beeh constructed by h have built homes along the posed posed route lie He said as a's s p s' s homes have he been n pull built kl thinking t h has s change changed as as s to to wh what f n jP pG vl HE liE SAID r II Most of or you people were not here during the early planning Nanning of oC this road But thinking thinking think think- ing can change And the com corn commissioners missioners and state road roa people are geared ti do the best they y can for Paul Gilgen of uC the state road department explained that the they portion of the lure road now being being- considered for Cor construction runs south of oC the portion already constructed con con- near south in inn Do Bountiful Boun Bountiful south to 10 Cudahy Laie Lue lie He said that cost for Cor this orti n has been heen estimated at This would include dra drainage ge grading I an gravel surfacing the the 1 roadway and building a C IJ I 1 See DAVIS BLVD L on page 2 DAVIS DAMS BOULEVARD Continued from front page pale BECAUSE IT IS currently planned planned planned plan plan- ned for a two lane 42 foot wide ro roadway dway it is classified by the state slate road department as asa asa asa a residential street He lie said it would not be a state road Ive I've been consulting with the county on this road as a r tive of the state stale road dept The Toe state has been making the necessary studies but it comes under the secondary roads program program program pro pro- gram and would bee a county road Ha also explained that it must W be under construction by July 1st or the county will stan stand t to lose th the which it would have to pay back to the federal government for the studies made so far by the state road commission commission commission com com- mission concerning Davis Boule Boule- vard MR GILGEN ALSO stated that the presently undeveloped land along the proposed route will have to be connected to the existing existing exist exist- ing portions of the boulevard as it develops so the road eventually eventually eventually even even- will be developed anyway by by a piece meal plan Then he explained that plans for this project cannot be abon- abon and the funds used to develop Wasatch Drive in ex exchange exchange exchange ex- ex change as was suggested by several of the speakers He lIe said th two projects would come under un under un- un der different types 0 ol or ro road d fu funds ls This would be under the county secondary roads fund and Wasatch Wasatch Wasatch Was Was- atch Drive would be a state road GLEN W. W FLINT chairman of the Davis County Commission who conducted the meeting promised promised prom promised the petitioners Seeing you do not want It well we'll review the project again But if it we dont don't do it well we'll have to pay back the to the state road dept for what has been expended by tt m for their studies to far In other words well we'll be spending spending spending spend spend- ing it back for nothing When one of th e a ladies in the audience requested the petitioners petition petition- ers be notified of the commIssions commIssion's commissions commission's commissions commission's commis commIs- sion's decision before it was so final that it it could not be al altered altered altered al- al Commissioner Flint promised promised prom promIsed their decision would be an announced announced announced an- an before anything is fin- fin on it |