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WEBER COUNTY -- Transportation planners think they're narrowing down a preferred route for the northernmost section of the Legacy Parkway.
It still could be 20 to 30 years before the highway between 5600 South in Roy and Pleasant View is actually built, but planners hope identifying a corridor now will ultimately allow cities and the county to begin buying parcels of land.
The route was narrowed down from 23 to six alternatives. Number six, the farthest west route, was identified as the preferred route.
"It does work around through the county so that we're trying to preserve, for the most part, the most agricultural developable, or prime agricultural areas," said Ben Wuthrich, project manager for the Wasatch Front Regional Council.
Wuthrich says land owners, and the city and county worked together to come up with the route, which is likely to slightly change in coming years.
Once the route is finalized, cities and the county can adopt the route into their master plans and possibly buy land for the corridor as it comes available.
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