Residents press council on Westfield Road access as Firelight developer discusses funding and timing

Dozens of residents and property owners raised concerns at Monday’s Toquerville City Council meeting about access from Westfield Road to the new parkway and the implications for emergency egress and fire safety.

Several public commenters, including DC Young and Dan Cavan, told the council they understood a developer commitment to extend Westfield Road to the parkway had been part of earlier approvals and that recent closures now leave neighbors without the promised secondary egress. “When the proposal for the bypass road was approved, the requirements were that contracting vehicles would not use city streets,” DC Young wrote in an email read into the public record; he added that the developer’s recent closure of the unpaved extension left nearby homes without the second access they had…