Toquerville City General Plan

In order to mitigate the impacts of increasing tourist traffic on Main Street/I-15 UDOT has planned a maintenance project in coming years. The Toquerville mayor and council wanted to develop a sustainable long-term solution, a bypass road. The bypass corridor had great local support from citizens and elected officials because it is intended to take traffic away from the residential areas, and will allow the City to develop a future commercial core where tourists will be traveling. The land use, housing, safety, economic and traffic consequences will all be positive if a carefully planned bypass corridor is established. The Dixie Metro Planning Organization (MPO) was also supportive, and plans to contribute funds to the bypass corridor study.

Toquerville City, being proactive, desired to re-write their general plan so that the corridor study would be influenced by local housing, infrastructure and land use objectives. Rural Community Consultants coordinated with the transportation plan that will be developed simultaneously by Jones & DeMille Engineering.