Preston Adamson, UDOT design manager for Mountain View Corridor Phase 2, on video introduced the agency’s environmental reevaluation and urged public review and comment. “Mountain View Corridor is a vital route, serving 40,000 vehicles daily,” Adamson said, adding UDOT projects “over a 150,000 trips in this section of Western Salt Lake County” by 2050.

The reevaluation updates an environmental impact statement first completed in 2008 and describes design refinements meant to convert the existing highway to a free-flowing freeway. According to Adamson, the project will add about 9 miles of freeway across four cities within the existing median, with two new lanes in each direction, roughly 25 new bridges (including 13 cross streets) and a collector–distributor ramp system to improve access.

UDOT said the refined design keeps most local cross streets as bridges over the freeway while routing the new freeway under Bingham Road at South Jordan Parkway; Old Bingham Highway in West Jordan and Veil Vista Drive and Porter Rockwell Boulevard in Herriman will pass under the new freeway. The agency also plans two new southbound U-turns (at Rosecrest Road and Lake Avenue); a northbound U-turn at South Jordan Parkway is already constructed.

On property impacts, Adamson said there will be no residential or business relocations because most construction is within the existing median cleared for previous work. Still, UDOT expects to purchase two vacant lots and about six acres for utility relocations and bridge tie-ins, secure more than eight acres of temporary construction easements and over 20 acres of perpetual easements for maintenance and utility access. “Our right of way team will contact any affected property owners directly to review the details and work through the process,” he said.

UDOT also completed a new noise study under the agency’s noise abatement policy. The study evaluated 11 potential noise walls and found two qualify for balloting: one on the west side of Mountain View Corridor between Veil Vista Drive and Juniper Canyon, and another west of the corridor between Rosecrest Road and Palisade Rose Drive. Adamson said property owners who may benefit will be contacted and given the opportunity to ballot on installation in line with UDOT’s policy.

The agency laid out a timetable: design began in 2023; UDOT aims to have a contractor on board by spring 2027, begin construction in summer 2027 and complete this portion of the work by 2030. Adamson said the environmental team will review public comments submitted during the open comment period and publish the final reevaluation in early 2026; noise-wall balloting would follow. He also said UDOT will hold neighborhood and business-focused meetings next spring and begin preparatory work (pavement maintenance, dirt removal, utility relocations) in 2026.

The environmental reevaluation is posted at the project website and hard copies are available at UDOT Region 2 headquarters in Salt Lake City and the Utah complex in Taylorsville. The public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 19, with presentations at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at Midas Creek Elementary in Riverton and an open-house discussion between presentations. Formal comments to be included in the reevaluation must be submitted by Dec. 1, 2025; Adamson listed email (mountainview@utah.gov), phone ((385) 386-8439), U.S. mail to Mountain View Corridor, c/o Horrocks, 1265 Fort Union Blvd., Cottonwood Heights, UT 84047, or written/verbal comment at the hearing as accepted methods.

Next steps: UDOT will review comments and publish the final environmental reevaluation in early 2026, begin the noise-wall balloting process, and proceed toward contractor selection and construction preparation. The agency invited residents and businesses to sign up for project updates on the website.