Background During the past 10 years, the Wasatch Front Region has seen a high rate of growth in population and economic activity. The demand for travel has also risen at a rate that is even higher than the growth in population. This is particularly true for Davis and Weber Counties. The Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC), which has responsibility for long range transportation planning in the region, has long recognized the need for greater transportation capacity. It has conducted many planning studies, which have indicated the need for a major north-south oriented transportation facility in an area west of I-15. The long-range transportation plan has identified the North Legacy corridor as a means to meet the areas future transportation needs. In 1998, a Major Investment Study (MIS) was completed for the Western Transportation Corridor in Davis and Weber Counties. This study generally identified and evaluated several corridor alignments that could serve the area. After the evaluation of the alternatives and coordination with the communities in the area was completed, the MIS recommended a preferred alignment alternative in the western part of Davis and Weber Counties. Recently, several transportation and local government officials expressed a desire to preserve a transportation corridor in Davis and Weber Counties before rapid urban development forecloses many, if not all, of the future transportation options. In response, the WFRC and the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) enlisted the services of Michael Baker Jr., Inc. to conduct the North Legacy Corridor Right-Of-Way Study, which will further develop, and add to, the findings of the MIS. The study has now been underway since the end of October of 1999. Purpose of Right-Of-Way Study The purpose of the study is to identify a right-of-way for a transportation corridor. The study will build on the findings of the MIS, conduct more detailed evaluations, and make further refinements to the preferred corridor alignment alternative, which was identified in the MIS. The study area that has been identified is an area between Farmington in Davis County, and just north of the Weber-Box Elder County line located west of I-15. The end product of this study will enable the local affected jurisdictions, in cooperation with UDOT, to preserve a transportation corridor. The primary product of the study will be a corridor footprint 328 feet (100 meters) in width, displayed on aerial photographs, and accompanied by property boundaries, which cities will use in general planning, and evaluating proposed development with respect to their Subdivision and Zoning Ordinances. With this information, the developers and property owners, as well as the local jurisdictions, will have enough details available to them about the corridor location and dimensions to enable them to accommodate the corridor in proposed development plans. Study Progress and Results to Date A considerable amount of work has been accomplished since the Fall of 1999, when the study began. The consultant has carried on extensive interviews with local city and county officials to provide information about the study and ascertain local preferences and issues relative to the North Legacy corridor. Meetings have been held with environmental and cultural resource agency representatives in an effort to provide them with study information and to determine the issues that are important to them. Current aerial photography was acquired which was used to determine the nature of the physical and cultural landscape of the study area. In addition, the aerials were used as a background for the placement of various corridor alignment options that will be considered in the study. Primary and secondary information was gathered from a variety of sources for the development of a geographic 305