HomeMy WebLinkAbout18 of 1966 - A resolution requesting the Utah State Road Commission to abandon plans for an interchange at 2200 N pir _
Resolution No. 18
Louis E. Holley .
By
IQ, • COMMISSIONER
Requesting the Utah State Road
Commission to abandon plans for an
interchange at 2200 North Street
and select a new location for an
interchange and highway which will ,
permit ultimate extension of the
Municipal Airport runway to an
effective length to at least 16,000
feet, or longer, if possible.
Pretested to the Beard of Comnbtionen
AND PASSED
MAY3 1966
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VOTING Aye Nay Salt Lake City,Utah, May 3 I69
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I move that the Resolution be adopted.
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Harrison . . .
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Result
RESOLUTION
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WHEREAS, Salt Lake City Municipal Airport is the major airport
between Denver, Colorado and the Pacific Coast, and is an extremely
vital hub in providing air service to the whole intermountain region,
and its maintenance is of vital importance to the entire State of Utah;
and,
WHEREAS, air transportation and air service are constantly under-
going great improvement and expansion which necessitates the enlargement
and extension of airport facilities to properly accommodate air traffic;
and,
WHEREAS, over the years the runways at the Municipal Airport have
had to be extended periodically in order to provide proper take-off and
landing facilities and no one can presently determine to what length
the runways must be extended to properly serve the air industry in the
future; and,
WHEREAS, the only direction that the runways at the Municipal Air-
port can be extended is to the north, and ample room for such extension
in that direction is an absolute necessity to properly maintain said
airport and permit it to realize its future potential in the air industry
and in the economy of Salt Lake City and the State of Utah; and,
WHEREAS, the planned 2200 North Belt Route interchange proposed by
the State Highway Department would erect a permanent barrier to the
extension of the airport facilities beyond 2200 Yorth and thus end for-
ever expansion to the north and so prevent the possibility of extending
airport facilities to meet probable future needs:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
SALT LAKE CITY that it does hereby petition and request the State Depart-
ment of Highways and the State Road Commission to abandon plans for an
interchange at 2200 North and select a new location for an interchange
and highway which would permit ultimate extension of the airport runways
to an effective length of at least 16,000 feet, or longer, if possible.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Board hereby requests that the
State Department of Highways and the State Road Commission give serious
consideration to the use of the suggested West Valley Expressway Exten-
sion as a means of affording access to the Municipal Airport from the
North and thus eliminate the problem of blocking off the extension of
the airport runways.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Recorder transmit a copy of
this resolution to the State Department of Highways and the State Road
Commission.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, this
3rd day of May, 1966.
MAYOR
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