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NEW CITY STREETS • Randy McKnight, Nephi City Administrator show the streets that were deeded to the City.

By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent

Nephi City will now have complete control of city streets along on 300 West from 700 North to 1500 North.

Juab County Commissioners agreed Monday to allow the property to be deeded to Nephi City.

"Often times, when a city grows, and existing county roads are annexed into the city," said Randy McKnight, city administrator, "the county may own the right-of-way."

In those circumstances, the policy of the county has been to deed the right-of-way property to the city so that the city may have control of those roads as city specifications for the roads are met.

Sometimes, he said, the county may own the property under the roadway.

McKnight showed commission members the city street map so they would understand just where the roads were and what property actually belonged to the county.

It just makes sense, he said, that the county not have control of the property when the city is making the rules that govern the road such as widths, for example.

"As we adjust the boundaries of city streets, maintain them and provide snow removal, it makes sense that the property belong to the city," said McKnight.

The road, he said, crosses the railroad tracks, west of Nephi, goes past Nephi Pack, the Howard Orchard and back to the industrial park.

"There are places where the county has the right-of-way, and some places where the county does not," he said.

The county recorder had researched all of the property ownership for the roadway and had determined what the county owned and what it did not. It was his recommendation that the county deed those pieces that still belonged to the county to Nephi City.

"I thought it was already a city street," said Robert Steele, commissioner.

McKnight said he had given a deed proposal to Jared Eldridge, county attorney, to review.

"It seems pretty straightforward," said Eldridge. He said he had no problem with the county adopting the proposal and deeding the property to the city for their road system.

Steele then made the motion, which was unanimously agreed to, to allow the transfer or conveyance of all county property involved with the roads to Nephi City to become part of the city street system.

It will now be Nephi's responsibility to maintain the street.