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RESOLUTION TO ACCOMMODATE THE PROPOSED I-730 TO CONNECT US 67 TO US 63
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WHEREAS, the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department will be holding a Public Involvement Session in the near future, to gain input for the connector highway between U.S. 67 (Proposed Future I-30) and U.S. 49; and
WHEREAS, the 1991 State Highway Improvement Program calls for State Highway 226 from the new location of U.S. 67 (Proposed Future I-30) to U.S. 49 to be a four lane, undivided highway; and
WHEREAS, the Greater Jonesboro Chamber of Commerce Streets & Highways Committee has been studying this proposition and the need to connect U.S. Highway 67 (Proposed Future I-30) and U.S. 49 and eventually, with U.S. 63 (Future I-555); and
WHEREAS, this study has been encouraged by the Jonesboro Industrial Development Corporation that consideration be that this highway plan be upgraded to interstate connector status;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Jonesboro City Council that the following scenario be developed and followed:
1. The new highway connector between U.S. 67 (Proposed Future I-30) from its new location to U.S. 49 at Gibson Switch be located approximately one mile south of the current State Highway 226.
2. For this new highway (Proposed I-730) would have interstate-type right-of-ways for the roadbed and interchanges and overpasses that would be desired, and that the funds that would be expended to meet these 1991 State Highway Program Project for this corridor be used to acquire the right-of-way and build two lanes of this project.
3. A further connection from a U.S. 49 interchange at Gibson Switch north, generally following a route along State Highway 349 and the Union Pacific Railroad, to tie in with the planned interchange at Washington Avenue on U.S. 63 (Future I-555), thus completion of Proposed I-730.
4. We also desire that the U.S. 49 five-lane project would continue out through the Valley View community along its present route to Gibson Switch.
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