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Route change for road near Sundance Mountain

The county commissioners kick-started the process last week of altering a public road near Sundance. South Mountain Road 281 lies towards Sundance Mountain, said County Attorney Joe Baron, and the affected landowners have already expressed their consent to change its route.

“This is not a county road, it is a public road, and there is a petition that Mr. [Trey] Hendrickson has filed, and the other landowners have signed off and consented to, to alter that,” Baron told the county commissioners.

Baron explained that it has been discovered that a septic tank sits in the right-of-way on a stretch...