UDOT update: Is burying I-15 an option? How many homes, businesses may be displaced?

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See UDOT's preferred alternatives for its I-15 expansion project and how many residences, businesses and historic buildings it could impact.

’ headquarters to discuss what the capital city’s west side would lose if construction happens.

More immediately, she worries about what freeway construction would mean for already-scarce businesses on the west side and others in and around the project area. Centerville, North Salt Lake and Wood Cross would most likely get Option B, which is similar, except the central express lanes could be reversed to serve morning and evening traffic demands.Property acquisitions are uncertain at this point, but the general notion is that the project would impact 24 residential properties in Salt Lake City, along with three commercial ones and a historic building.

In Farmington, South Park, Ezra Clark Park and Farmington Junior High playing fields could be impacted, along with three residential properties and two historic buildings. “My request of UDOT has been to not eliminate any homes, to look at alternatives and opportunities to create greater access where the highway has created a barrier for decades,” she said. “And to look for ways to make good spaces, positive spaces, not just have more freeway with chain-link embankments on the sides.”

Though the project may seem like a done deal, grassroots groups have formed coalitions to advocate stopping the expansion.Westside Coalition

 

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