By Ashley Stolworthy

HYRUM -- In a 3-1 vote Thursday the Hyrum City Council voted to adopt the county's Interim Access Management Policy for a six-month trial, to improve transportation and land-use areas from the outside in.

"We are the guinea pigs to find out what works and what doesn't," said Mark S. Teuscher, countywide planner. "It would be inappropriate to enforce the ordinance if [we] didn't know how it worked."

The policy, known as Ordinance 02-15, is supposed to improve or come up with responsible solutions to access problems around the state, Teuscher said. Two years from now, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) plans to implement the program throughout the entire state, and Hyrum has been asked to test the policy's ability to improve existing conditions.

"Hopefully, this plan will be another tool to ensure coordination between UDOT [and Hyrum] to consider municipalities' desires for safety," said Mayor Gordon M. Olson. "Because it has the ability to help us in some areas, I propose to approve the policy."

However, both Zoning Administrator Thomas LaBau and Councilman H. Michael Stauffer are against adopting the policy because "it's too bureaucratic."

LaBau says there are more crucial needs that need to be addressed, but that would not happen with the bureaucracy of Ordinance 02-15.

Both LaBau and Stauffer say speed reductions along US 89/91 and the city's growing residential areas are major concerns for the council, and a bypass route from E.A. Miller Beef needs to be put in first to increase safety.

"UDOT will just do what they want," said Stauffer. "Instead of implementing new policies, they should be listening to the municipality's immediate concerns on improvements."

Councilmen Larry Gittins, Bruce James, and Douglas Stipes all voted for the motion, with Gittins seconding the Mayor's proposal. The proposal, which will state conditions to change road classifications, along with additional problems as they arise, will be written by Mark Tuescher and presented to the council at 8:30 p.m. during the Sept. 26 meeting.

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