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Herriman speaker: City cannot stop housing approvals as UDOT interchange and construction strain traffic
Summary
An unidentified Herriman speaker said the interchange UDOT is building is outside city control, that the city has asked UDOT and the county to better time signals on Route 126, and that the city cannot legally halt housing approvals while projects remain unfinished.
An unidentified speaker in Herriman addressed growing concerns about construction-related traffic tied to a UDOT interchange and said the city cannot legally pause housing approvals while related projects remain unfinished.
The speaker said the interchange UDOT is building "is not only not our project, it's not in our city," and emphasized Herriman has "limited influence" over that work. City staff have asked UDOT and the county to try to time the traffic signals on Route 126 "a little bit better" to help traffic flow in and out of Herriman.
The speaker identified regional access and infrastructure as the "major" issue for travel to and from the city. When asked whether the city can stop approving new housing until those projects are complete, the speaker said residents frequently raise the question and answered, "The answer is we wish, but we can't," adding "there's not a legal way to do that."
The speaker framed the situation as one of limited municipal authority: Herriman can "do what we can to try to plan and alleviate as much as we can," but cannot require that roads and freeways be completed before homes are built.
No formal motion or vote was recorded in the transcript. The remarks describe requests made to state and county transportation partners and reiterate the city's limited legal authority over regional projects and over halting development.
Next steps cited in the remarks were limited to staff outreach to UDOT and the county to adjust signal timing on Route 126; no further procedural action or formal directive was described in the transcript.
