Parks. Open space. Quiet. Nature. Overrated! What we really need is more roads. Roads to drive on, roads to speed on, roads to crash on, roads, roads, roads!

 My two daughters wanted to go see the horses two blocks west of our house.

"Why in the world would you want to do that?!" I shouted.
"Please, let's go throw some pebbles in the lake.
"Pshaw" I replied.
"Come on mom, can't we ride our bikes watch the falcons hunt to fatten up to have babies?"

"Good grief" I exclaimed. Why not hop in the car and drive down I-15 to buy some more trinkets from the $ store? If only it were quicker to get to the highway entrance. "What? Oh joy! Another road with several interchanges is being proposed by UDOT? It can't be Christmas already, it's only January."



Where southern option road would go



Ok, seriously, we moved out west because

1. It's flat and we were tired of our kids flying down the hill at 65 mph while learning to ride their bikes.
2. It's open out here. You can breathe. You can look out your window and see hawks soaring, smell horses living, yum yum, watch kids building forts out of sticks and using their, what are they called, you know, those mythical things of the past? Oh yeah, imaginations!
3. And this is a minor thing, there were no freeways a block from our house!

UDOT is proposing a West Davis Corridor to connect the Legacy Highway and I-15 to those westside communites from Farmington north to Ogden. One option on the table is called southern option. Bad southern option, bad. It would sandwich west Farmington neighborhoods between two freeways and cut us off from the very nature that brought us out here or that we started to enjoy once we realized it was here. This so far unneeded freeway would destroy our quiet, family-friendly neighborhood and cause our home values to plummet. Our Farmington city council members have wisely reversed their official decision and stated in the Feb 2011 city newsletter that the easterly route that runs adjacent to I-15 called C-1. Good C-1, good boy, is now the city's preferred alignment. I say Hooray! (If this road really is needed come 2040. Anyone heard of telecommuting or the virtual workplace that the state and federal governments are pushing?) However, if C-1 is determined non-viable by UDOT Farmington City has said their second choice is back to A-1 (southern option)! Whaaat? I would say there is no second choice. Why does Farmington need this freeway? Our travel times to I-15 are nil. A freeway out here means only more commercial development.

We have a unique geography out here that gives us a unique way of life. My husband, daughters and I went 2 miles southwest from our house this weekend and saw dozens of Bald Eagles hunting and soaring. Talk about patriotic. God Bless our Troops. We can watch falcons hunt and feed their young from our deck. I watch my daughter walk to school with her friends every morning because this is a walking neighborhood. Yay for staying in pajamas instead of driving kids to school! We can have backyard BBQs and picnics without pausing for honks or backfires aka, no freeway noise. We take our daughters to the pumpkin patch every autumn. These sweet, helpless jack-o-lanterns-to-be would be paved over under the southern option! Save Halloween!