Council hears transportation master plan update, flags need to coordinate irrigation and paving
Summary
Staff and Sunrise Engineering updated council on the transportation master plan and pavement management. Councilors urged including future roads in the plan, avoiding repaving before irrigation trunk lines are installed, and monitoring grant opportunities.
Mount Pleasant — Councilors received a status update on the transportation master plan and pavement management work from Sunrise Engineering and staff, and urged careful sequencing with a federal irrigation trunk‑line project to avoid rework.
Speaker 6 reported that Sunrise is finalizing a prioritized list of pavement management treatments, refining travel‑demand modeling, and identifying truck routes. Members stressed that proposed future roads should be included in the plan so developers are aware of planned corridors.
Councilors and staff discussed potential grant funding and cautioned that federal irrigation work could require casing or coordination so newly paved roads are not cut up shortly thereafter. "We don't want to put in $10,000,000 new roads and then a couple years later put in an irrigation system," a councilor said, urging casing and sequencing during design.
Staff encouraged patience while the plan is finalized over the next several weeks and said they will return with the transportation master plan for adoption once modeling adjustments and public input are complete.
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