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Staff shows three cross-section options for Fruitland Drive to add bike/ped facilities
Summary
Public works staff presented three cross-section options for Fruitland Drive that would add separated multi-use paths and street trees; the commission encouraged staff to pursue a design standard and study right-of-way needs before construction.
City public-works planners presented three cross-section concepts for Fruitland Drive during the meeting’s open-forum section on March 5, showing options to add protected bicycle and pedestrian facilities while preserving the roadway’s rural character.
Eric Caspersen, the city engineer (presentation delivered in staff remarks), shared a lower-cost option that places a 10-foot multi-use path on one side of the road separated by a low curb, and a higher-cost “Cadillac” option that adds an 8-foot planted bioswale, larger street trees and a rolled minor curb for improved separation and stormwater handling. Staff said the downhill side of Fruitland is generally preferable for locating a path because it would have fewer driveway impacts.
Commissioners responding to the presentation said they liked the concepts and asked staff to survey the corridor to identify right-of-way limits and where improvements would require additional property or reconstruction. “If we had on Fruitland a safe multi-use path that connected Mountain Road all the way down to 2600, and it were great separated in some fashion, that would be the win for the city,” one commissioner said.
Staff said the city will pursue a corridor survey to map right-of-way widths and elevations, and will seek funding sources in later capital plans or regional grant rounds for larger items such as roundabout improvements at the s-curve informed by Wasatch Front Regional Council funding cycles.
The presentation was offered as a planning-stage concept; no formal action was taken.
