Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Transportation Access Management topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Cedar City, UDOT move toward formal access‑management agreement for state routes
Summary
City staff and a Utah Department of Transportation representative reviewed a draft cooperative access management agreement that maps potential future traffic signals and median locations on SR‑56 and SR‑130; council members asked staff to route the signed draft and return it for action next week.
The Cedar City Council work meeting on June 18 heard a presentation from the Utah Department of Transportation outlining a draft cooperative access management agreement to guide future changes on state routes that cross the city, including SR‑56 and SR‑130.
UDOT regional engineer Chris Hall told the council the agreement records shared goals — enhancing safety, planning efficient access to destinations, creating multimodal roadways and developing feasible, coordinated solutions — and identifies potential signal locations and higher‑priority spots for center median curb as redevelopment or future projects create a need. "As development changes and new development comes, we want to make sure we're applying these good access management principles," Hall said.
City staff said they participated in the solutions development process, provided comments that were incorporated and support the approach. One council member asked how tightly the agreement would constrain the city; Hall and staff responded that the draft functions as a cooperative guide and that specific design decisions and any funding would be worked out during later project design and budgeting. "It's an agreement saying this is kind of agreed upon up front … but it will be worked out in the design process," Hall said.
Staff and UDOT highlighted that most existing downtown intersections are spaced more closely than UDOT's spacing guidelines and that the plan is meant to preserve corridor function while identifying locations where signals or medians would do the most safety benefit. A city staff member referenced past examples where consolidation of accesses and median curb installation reduced crashes.
Council members had no objection to moving the draft forward. Staff said they would route the agreement for signatures and planned to bring it back to the council for formal action the following week.
The discussion was informational; no ordinance or final contractual action occurred during the meeting.
