The Goshen County Commissioners received a petition to create a county road and a recommendation to vacate a county road during their Tuesday, May
2 meeting.
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TORRINGTON – The Goshen County Commissioners received a petition to create a county road and a recommendation to vacate a county road during their Tuesday, May
2 meeting.
The petition to create a county road concerns a stretch of Four Corners Road in a southern corner of the county and eventually leads into Laramie County. For many years, the Goshen County Road and Bridge department maintained all of the Four Corners Road, but recently discovered that part of the road had never actually been designated as a county road.
On the advice of the county attorney’s office, the department decided a few months ago to no longer maintain that section of Four Corners Road not designated as a county road due to liability issues that could be associated with plowing, grading and repairing, what was essentially, a private road.
As soon as that decision was made several of the property owners along Four Corners Road voiced their concerns about losing county maintenance of the road and on Tuesday the commissioners were presented with a petition to incorporate that section of the road that is not a county road into the Goshen County county road system.
Alan Kirkbride, one of the landowners along the Four Corners Road, brought the petition to the commissioners with the signatures of 41 other landowners in the area. Wyoming statute only requires five signatures and signatories included captains from four of the fire districts, Hawk Springs, LaGrange, Meridan and Midway, that would respond to emergencies in the area.
“That road is used a lot,” Kirkbride explained. “We want to make sure that access can be properly maintained because there are a few places where it will drift four feet or more during a storm. Fire, ambulance, UPS, FedEx and the mail service all need to be able to access that road.
“We don’t need less roads in that area.”
The section of the road described in the petition is between Laramie County Road 143 and a substation, approximately three miles north.
Though the petitioners asked that the road remain right where it is now located, road and bridge supervisor Jerry Hort advised there were a few changes that could be made along the petitioned strip of road that would help travel during the winter.