Utah Crossing Press – 84045
Posted By Mike Kieffer on November 25, 2009
Salt Lake Tribune – Council wants more bridge data
Saratoga Springs is taking a wait-and-see approach on whether to endorse Utah Crossing’s plans to span Utah Lake with a pair of bridges.
Mayor Timothy L. Parker said the City Council wants more information before it commits one way or the other on the bridge proposal.
“We have assurances from the applicant,” Parker said, “but no data.”
The City Council discussed the matter at its Nov. 17 meeting, but chose not to take any action at that time. Parker said the city will wait until it gets more information, either from Utah Crossing, Mountainland Association of Governments or the state Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, which is reviewing Utah Crossing’s request to build the bridge.
Full Story: Council wants more bridge data
Deseret News – No hurry on lake bridge
Any discussion of a proposal to build a bridge across Utah Lake needs to take place against the backdrop of population projections. The state expects that by 2050, Saratoga Springs will house 76,669 people and nearby Eagle Mountain will house 100,902. Meanwhile, Provo and Orem together will house about 265,000, and all of them will be part of a county of nearly 1.2 million.
If you’re not familiar with Utah County geography, Provo and Orem are on the east side of the big lake, Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs are on the west.
People who spoke at a meeting sponsored recently by the Utah Valley Sierra Forum were, to no one’s surprise, concerned mainly with the environmental impacts of the bridge. Some maintained that the bridge would add to air pollution, an assertion that seems to defy logic.
Full Story: No hurry on lake bridge
Salt Lake Tribune – Fears grow over lake plan
Saratoga Springs ยป When Jim Westwater heard that a proposed bridge across Utah Lake would not need federal environmental clearance, he was shocked and disappointed.
“This is not a private lake,” said Westwater, chairman of the Utah Valley Sierra Forum. “This is a public lake, held in trust by the state of Utah.”
But Westwater and the Sierra Forum are planning to do more than just join the chorus of dissenting voices already on file with the state.
The group is drafting a demand for the state Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands to conduct an environmental review as thorough as a federal environmental impact study.
Full Story: Fears grow over lake plan
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