BOUNTIFUL—As the remodel of the Bountiful Library moves ahead, library staff and their architect supplied Bountiful City with a proposed site plan. As city staff looked over the plan they recognized that some of the changes necessitated a property swap to facilitate what the library wanted to do with their site. 

“Most notably, they’re going to remodel the south parking area from just one aisle of parking to parking on both sides,” said City Engineer Lloyd Cheney. “That would encumber the current grass landscaping that exists there now and that’s going to become parking areas.”

The two areas proposed to be exchanged between the county and the city are exactly the same, so there’s no net gain or loss to either party, he said. “It just reallocates property in a more functional location for the library and senior center. The city owns the property where the Golden Years Center is located. So having that portion of the parking on the west side of that building is a great improvement because it associates that handicap parking with that building where this is probably needed the most.”

“The library parking area has an entrance onto Main Street,” said Mayor Kate Bradshaw. “Will that entrance be going away with their changes to the parking lot design so it would just become a dead end parking lot?”

“It will become a dead end parking lot,” said Cheney. “That driveway will be eliminated and a  landscaping place to cross there. We’re in a situation where the Carriage Crossing entrance on the west side of Main Street and the library driveway and the connector between Main Street and 100 East through the city campus, is becoming a little bit congested and there’s a lot of potential conflict points for traffic limits.”

It will make things more predictable to consolidate movements onto Main Street or 100 East and just require everybody accessing the campus to come through that roadway rather than have conflict points with very close driveways together, he said. 

The new library drop will be on the east side, said Cheney. “The ballot dropbox will also be on the east side.”

The City Council passed the motion unanimously for boundary line adjustments.