Comments about ‘Letter: Save historic homes’

I commend the logic expressed here. Residents of Centerville and nearby communities should unite and insist on a better solution than encroaching on historical Main Street's legacy.

8 cars more turning into a already congested parrish lane. Bad idea.

This letter doesn't want to address any other problems with their idea however. Where do you put another exit between Centerville and Farmington? Lets theoretically say you put it at Jennings Lane. It (and any other street) would have to be expanded, no east, west street in Centerville is currently designed to handle off ramp traffic, which would chew up many more yards. You probably would have to demolish homes to have room to build on/off ramps. There is no room on the west side of I-15 due to a swamp being located there and no roads to connect the ramp to. Meaning you would have a weird ramp with all traffic directed onto the Frontage Rd.So really the question comes down to. Not to mention changing a quiet street in a secluded neighborhood into a large, loud street. And if an off ramp was built the eventual reality is the street starts being zoned for commercial essentially forcing people out of their homes. I'm sorry, it's not as simple as the letter writer would like to think, and the number of people impacted is much less be just adding a turning lane.

Only one home in the plan is historical, and it will not take out the house building itself. The yard is not historically significant, no historical walls, fences or the like. Floods in the thirties raised the surronding land by two to three feet. This really is a not in my neighborhood, but tear out homes in your neighborhood issue.

@JSF
AMEN. The house on the corner of (Parrish)(Perrish?)and main is historic. But they are buying/exercising an easement/eminent domain on a piece of dirt, not the home itself. Other solutions are significantly more $$$ and disrupt more people. It sucks for these property owners. But this letter really over simplifies the issue. Adding a new off ramp isn't a simple task.

I lived in Centerville when it was small. I remember how excited everyone got when we hit 2000 residents. There was a single part time police chief in town. The city offices were "west of town" in a horse field. We were heartbroken when they tore down the big trees on Porter Lane to put in curb and gutter. Canyon Way was the best sleigh riding hill anywhere during the winter. There were still fields between Bountiful and Centerville, and between Centerville and Farmington, rather than row after row of houses. How sad that Centerville is now just a cul-de-sac of Salt Lake City and stuff like this becomes common place because of the massive growth.