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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Bike path and new P&Z board member


Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah. August 7, 2019.  Mitch Poulsen, Bear Lake Regional Commission asked Commissioners to add Erin Quinn from Laketown as a new board member of the County Planning and Zoning.  He will be replacing Kathy Hislop from Garden City.  Poulsen said that Quinn was very knowledgeable about the county planning.

Poulsen said that the Community Impact Board (CIB) granted a request for $20,000 to update the County Comprehensive Plan. 

The bike path is moving along slowly.  Ideal Beach has been asked to sign an easement for the bike path and they have indicated a willingness to give the easement.  There is a culvert by Ideal Beach that either needs to be lengthened or have a bridge over it for the path.   Brent Sanders, County Engineer, suggested that they do the bridge as a separate project because it is so expensive.  It is estimated that the cost will be $200,000.

Commissioner Bill Cox asked if the culvert should be lengthened rather than having a bridge over it making it cheaper than the bridge.  He also asked if UDOT is going to allow a bridge structure that close to the highway right of way.  Brent Sanders suggested that those questions could be answered if the bridge were a separate project. If you do the bridge later it might move the project further said Brent. Commissioners told Sanders and Poulsen to get the path out to bid as soon as possible.   “We’d like to start it by fall,” said Cox. 

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