"We love it so much," she said.

Natalie Argyle has lived in her home for three years and found out about the corridor shortly after moving in.

"I don't want it in my backyard," she said, adding that her family had planned to move out of the neighborhood after a short time anyway.

Greg Senkel, who lives south of the golf course, also lives in a home in the corridor. He hopes the state deals fairly with him and doesn't devalue his home just so it can pay a cheaper price if a road takes his home.

"I want to make sure I'm compensated," he said, adding that he doesn't want to make money from the state, just enough to move into a comparable home to what he owns now.

Argyle says she likely wouldn't have bought her home if she had known about the highway. Then there's the concern about how to sell her home to a future buyer, who may live there long enough to see a highway come through.

Walton wondered why the future road couldn't be located farther east.

"There's nothing behind us," she said. "It's a great location."

Unfortunately for her, it may also be a great location for a highway. But officials don't know exactly where that highway will be yet.

Map making

In May, the Utah Transportation Commission approved $20 million to fund an environmental impact study for S.R. 67 — a yearlong study designed to see what impacts a roadway would have along a 300-foot corridor from Farmington to Weber County, said commission chairman Stuart Adams.

It's something that should have happened 10 years ago, Adams said, but delays to Legacy Parkway from 2001 to 2006 translated to delays for an extension northward.

Not only will the study look at possible impacts to wetlands for a variety of alternate routes — including an alternative to not build anything— but it will look at impacts to homes and cities, as well.

Adams said he hopes to involve the environmental community as soon as possible and expects to receive healthy public comment from local leaders and residents during the EIS process. Since the environmental community and transportation officials came together to get Legacy Parkway back on track in 2006, Adams said their relationships have strengthened.

"I hope to continue that positive dialogue," he said.

Environmental concerns are not the only challenge. Officials in Davis County have long recognized they'd rather not buy more expensive developed land, but rapid growth on the county's westside is meaning more land in the possible corridor is getting developed.