A short message from Mayor Call:
Many Projects Underway
Spring is just around the corner. This is my favorite time of the year. The City blossoms into life, both figuratively and literally. People are able to get outdoors and enjoy this time of renewal. In that vein, I would encourage you to drive around the City and see what is happening. We have a lot of commercial buildings that have opened in the past year and I’m finding that many of you don’t even realize they are here in Pleasant View.
I thought I would list the projects and then encourage each of you to go on a little drive and check out what’s happening in our great City. Here they are in no particular order:
C & A Plumbing
RSW Reverse Engineering machine shop
Bowden Properties (Two new buildings in Stonefield, each with two fronts)
Design Tech
CNC Construction (New Addition)
J.D. Machine (New Addition)
Arnold Machinery
Blue Sun Manufacturing
Pro-Plumbing
Trigon Shell Gas/Convenience/Car Wash
Capstone Charter School
Bailey Construction (large lease building in parkland)
New Elementary School (under construction)
Pleasant View Emergency Room (under construction)
Pivot Solutions (under construction)
As is always the case whenever I put together a list, I worry that I have forgotten someone or not stated it correctly. If I’ve missed you, please email me and I will put you in next month.
I am committed to doing whatever it takes to ensure that Pleasant View remains the best place to not only grow up, but the best place to grow old.
Mayor Call
Youth City Counsil has been busy with the Magic Yarn Project going on in January and the Creat Wigs for Childern. They spent time at the Lantern House on 2 seperate weekends helping. Great job!
Students of the month are Ashlyn Crowell from Weber High. Kyler Murdock from the North Ogden Jr. High. Jack Wolifinger from Maria Montessori and Millie Hansen from Orian Jr. High. Great job!
$6.2 million project to fix I-15/2700 North bottleneck near Farr West
By MITCH SHAW, Standard-Examiner Staff
FARR WEST — The Utah Department of Transportation has a $6.2 million plan to fix a notorious bottleneck in northern Weber County.
UDOT is completing an environmental analysis, design work and right-of-way acquisition for a project officials say will improve safety and reduce delay on 2700 North near Interstate 15 in Farr West.
As it’s planned now, the project has several components.
The state will add a new westbound lane on 2700 North between I-15 and Farr West Elementary, a new eastbound lane on 2700 North between the freeway and Rulon White Boulevard, a raised median from I-15 to 1775 West, and dual left-turn lanes on 2000 West for commuters headed to eastbound 2700 North.
The project will also feature improved signal timing, new asphalt on 2700 North, updated signage and dual left-turn lanes to 2700 North on both sides of U.S. 89.
UDOT Region One spokesman Vic Saunders said the project will reduce delay in the area, improve access to I-15 and improve flow and safety at 2700 North intersections at 2000 West, I-15 and U.S. 89.
“Over the years, traffic has increased and there’s been a lot of development, a lot of businesses come in to take advantage of that,” Saunders said. “(2700 North) has become a very busy road in that area.”
More than a decade ago, UDOT extended 2700 North from Washington Boulevard in North Ogden to U.S. 89 in Pleasant View. Since the extension, the road has become a major I-15 feeder.
The number of motorists driving daily on 2700 North near I-15 averaged about 25,000 in 2015, according to traffic statistics from UDOT. Saunders said during peak travel times, especially in the evening, vehicles have been known to back up on the I-15 interchange while trying to access 2700 North.
According to a project summary on UDOT’s website, environmental and design work continue through this summer, with the project expected to be advertised to contractors in the fall. Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in the spring of 2018.
The project will dovetail with a project in North Ogden, farther east on 2700 North.
In tandem with UDOT, North Ogden is planning a three-phase, $10.5 million project that will reconstruct the intersection of Washington Boulevard and 2700 North, widen Washington north of the intersection and then widen 2700 North as it runs east of Washington.
The intersections there will include new dual left-hand turn lanes, and 2700 North will be widened with new east and westbound travel lanes, a center turn lane and bike lanes from Washington Boulevard to the city hall building at 475 East.
Washington, or 400 East as the road is also known, will get new lanes in each direction, a center turn lane and bike lanes between 2700 North and 2850 North.
That project is set to begin in 2019.
You can reach reporter Mitch Shaw at mishaw@standard.net. Follow him on Twitter at @mitchshaw23 or like him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mitchshaw.standardexaminer/.
