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Resident presses University of Wyoming to reopen 15th Street; council agrees to pull related consent item for more review
Summary
A resident said 15th Street remains closed at the University of Wyoming project site despite promises; councilors asked for clarification and agreed to pull a consent agenda item related to a university street-license to allow further discussion.
A Laramie resident and member of the city planning commission, Tom Matimore, used the meeting’s public-comment period to press the University of Wyoming to reopen 15th Street, saying campus construction had left the street blocked past promised dates.
Matimore said the university previously told the planning commission the street would be reopen by the end of October and later updated faculty and staff that it would be open by the start of the spring semester. He told councilors that cranes were removed the prior weekend and the street was still closed, and he urged the city to ask the university to reopen the right-of-way. Matimore identified himself as a member of the planning commission and described prior experience in construction projects to underline his point.
Later in the meeting, councilors discussed the consent agenda and identified item 9(f) — a license related to the University of Wyoming (listed in the draft agenda) — as a topic of concern because of public anxiety about street closures. Councilors agreed to pull item 9(f) from the consent agenda for separate discussion at a future meeting, and a councilor asked staff to briefly advise the public at the start of the meeting when an item on consent might affect streets or other sensitive public infrastructure.
Staff and councilors did not take a formal vote on the license at the work session; the transcript records the council’s agreement to pull the item so it can receive fuller consideration and public comment.
