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HomeMy WebLinkAbout35 of 1977 - A resolution setting forth the City’s position on the Bonneville Scenic Drive. Resolution No. 35 • :• By . Jess A.Agraz COMMI{.q.LR Setting forth the City's position on the Bonneville Scenic Drive. iflentriteAttoMieibudlcifftb nmi MD mum WW1& 1977 PN/4- XiV 16\ i ROLL CALL VOTING Aye Nay Salt Lake City,Utah, March J 6 ,19 77 _Mr:cChai' an ! _ ,m 1 move that the Resolution be adopted. Agraz Greener • Hogensen ... Phillips RESOLUTtO Result // WHEREAS, the Board of City Commissioners in developing the City's major street plan has proposed that a street be constructed to serve the northeast quadrant of the City; and WHEREAS, said street is designed to be one of a low speed, low volume, curvilinear facility to serve local interneighborhood traffic and to serve public recreational facilities only; and WHEREAS, various proposals have been advanced for the construction of "Bonneville Scenic Drive" to connect Salt Lake and Davis Counties and the proponents of said highway desire that such highway be a direct, high speed, high volume connector from south Davis County to northeast Salt Lake City, University of Utah, the East Bench of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County; and WHEREAS, the suggested routes for the construction of said highway have included the extension of roads located in Davis County through, above and around the mountains between Salt Lake and Davis Counties into the Capitol Hill and Avenues area of Salt Lake City and said proposals have also contemplated the construction of a bridge across City Creek Canyon; and WHEREAS, such a facility would have a severe negative environ- mental and visual impact on the area it would traverse due to the width of such a highway and because of excessive cuts and fills which would be required to construct such a highway in the mountainous terrain and would have a deleterious effect on the northern neighbor- hoods in Salt Lake City and the residents thereof due to the vehicular traffic. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City that it is firmly opposed to the extension of any road from Davis County around or through the mountains into either the Capitol Hill or Avenues area of Salt Lake City and is opposed to the construction of any bridge across any location in City Creek Canyon. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners that it expresses its initial support of the construction of a road known as "Bonneville Scenic Drive" from llth Avenue and Virginia Street intersection around the back of the University of Utah to a major connection with Foothill Boulevard (Research Park) interchange as well as a minor connection to Sunnyside Avenue along the west boundary of the Pioneer State Park. The Commission is further opposed to the extension of "Bonneville Scenic Drive" to any point south of Sunnyside Avenue. Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, this 16th day of March 1977. -/ 40, ,, -- MAYOR �1J54YI;�J L41�. L ffL�JJJ .l/ C.iI ISSIQNE' i , COMM ' COMMISSIONER �"