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Ivins council declines to send letter supporting Northern Corridor after split debate
Summary
The Ivins City Council debated whether to send a letter of support for the Northern Corridor (a proposed east-west regional bypass) and voted down a motion to send one after a contentious discussion highlighting environmental, traffic and tortoise mitigation tradeoffs.
The Ivins City Council voted down a motion to send an official city letter supporting the Northern Corridor — a long-debated east-west transportation route — after a lengthy discussion that exposed sharp divisions among council members and local stakeholders.
The question before council was whether Ivins should add its name to a portfolio of public comments the county and others were submitting during a BLM environmental review. Devin Snow, a Washington County attorney, explained that the federal right-of-way previously granted for the corridor had been rescinded under a prior administration and that a federal environmental review was now under reconsideration.
Cameron Rognan, the county Habitat Conservation…
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