Jamie Jolman, a resident speaking during the public-comment period at a Sheridan City Council meeting, urged the council to stop pursuing the currently platted West Side Corridor and said neighbors were not given notice before the road was placed on subdivision plats.

Jolman told council members that documents cited at a Dec. 5 community meeting omitted key context and that local planning goals — including protection of natural resources, viewsheds and property rights — were not followed when the corridor’s current placement was decided. "You put a road on paper, but never invited the public to comment," Jolman said. "We are commenting now, and we object."

Jolman cited the Sheridan County comprehensive plan (2008 and 2020), the Sheridan Transportation Plan and the Sheridan Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan while pressing the council to reconsider the corridor’s siting. She said the Saddlecrest subdivision filing in September 2018 subdivided roughly 229 acres into 36 residential lots and that an October 2018 notice to adjacent property owners did not disclose that a platted industrial road would affect the viewshed and quality of life for nearby residents.

Jolman also told the council that a portion of the platted route passes through an area marked as a landslide hazard on the Sheridan County GIS map and on a hazardous-areas map appended to the 2008 county plan. She asked the council not to use capital-tax funds or to pursue grant funding for construction in the current location while other alignments remain available: "Don't spend the cap tax money. Don't go looking for raise grant or any other grant money. You never got community support for this location. It's time to look elsewhere before those locations are developed also."

The statement followed a city engineering department presentation about the corridor; meeting materials cited a Dec. 5 public event during which a city engineering staff member identified as Hans presented historical references to a bypass. Jolman said that presentation did not adequately address goals and standards in the county and city plans, nor the road’s potential impacts on existing residential neighborhoods.

The council did not take formal action on the corridor during the meeting and moved on after public comment. Jolman's remarks were entered into the record during the public-comment portion of the agenda.