EVANSTON — The Evanston Planning and Zoning Department held a public meeting at City Hall on Thursday, May 23, to seek public input on the feasibility of a road connecting the Aspen Grove area with Yellow Creek Road or City View Drive with Yellow Creek Road. 

City Planner and Engineer Dean Barker said the department had received a $50,000 planning grant from the Federal Highway Administration administered through the Wyoming Department of Transportation. The planning grant will be used for a feasibility study conducted by the Morrison Maierle Group. The study will focus on public input, environmental impact, constructability and safety and traffic impact, and will provide a cost estimate for construction of the road.  

Morrison Maierle Vice President and Wyoming Operations Manager Randy Bomar, along with Senior Transportation Engineer Phillip J. Giffin, was at the meeting to explain their involvement and to speak individually with those in attendance. They had a paper survey for the public to fill out at the meeting and they encouraged people to visit https://arcg.is/Oifz1H to fill it out online. It’s also linked at the city’s website, www.evanstonwy.org.

“The city of Evanston has no intention of building this road at this time; however, it is in the master plan to extend a road to connect the two parts of town (the southeast and the southwest) eventually,” Barker said. “This would get more traffic off of Cheyenne Drive, but a road could be a long way in the future; it is dependent on developers.”

Barker said that usually a developer builds the road and the city maintains it. He added that he has been approached by a developer interested in the area. 

Bomar and Giffin said that they will be holding more public meetings in the future and welcome continued public input.