The Deseret News reports has an article on the connector issue. Here is a link to the online story: "Farmington likely will reject connector bid".

UDOT isn't going to be happy that the City is going to deny their application. UDOT tried to get Farmington to do their work for them but Farmington is going to send a message to UDOT to get their act together and their facts straight before they go proposing something that is going to destroy the character of the City.

Of note in the article is a quote from Cory Pope the UDOT region one director, "The development will continue if we don't do something active to preserve the corridor, and there's a good chance that in the future — even if there are 100 to 150 homes in the area — we could still determine that corridor to be the preferred alternative for the connection road," he said. "If that's the case, it's a shame that many more impacts could happen to residents."

This is a bullying comment. UDOT is saying they could careless about the greater impact of another major road road through a small community. They just build roads and if a community is destroyed in the process it's not their problem. They do care that taking out 100-150 homes in the future will cost a lot more money then than getting the land on the cheap now. UDOT fails to give any concern for what their proposal is doing and will do to the community as a whole. They don't care about those theoretical people in those theoretical 100-150 homes they just want their land cheap now and depressing the value of the community as a whole 15 years before a road is even built. UDOT can't guarantee any benefit of the connector to Farmington, none. They try to say the connector will benefit Farmington but there is no proof, because there is not data, there are no environmental studies. Is there any surprise that Farmington is saying to UDOT go do real studies for your proposal rather than just bringing us cost estimates for steel and concrete?