Well if you haven’t been following the drama then here’s a link to the entry and a lil’ recap:

We’re “fortunate” enough to live right next door to the local highway and they’re doing upgrades to the intersection light. Udot (Utah Department of Transportation) wants to purchase some of our land so they can satisfy an easement with the Jordan Valley Water Conservatory District. Their well or access to the water pipes is in front of the wall which is in front of our back yard.

Well I know you all are on pins n’ needles of what’s been going on since my blog entry in July, like we’ve been. Okay, we haven’t been on pins n’ needles. . but damn it’s been a long time since we’ve gotten some kind of news.

We’re finally meeting with Udot to talk some money tomorrow morning.

They’re just purchasing land. The garage won’t be affected but our yard. . sprinklers. . . will be.

(did I just say my last name on the internets. . . oh well you got me on Facebook right?)

Yes, it was in the back of our minds when they did the continuous flow intersection on 3500 south, then 4700 south, and 5700 south. . that they could-might do it to our little corner 4100 south.

A couple weeks ago, UDot (Utah Department of Transportation) came knocking at our door wanting to know if they could get access to our back yard. I said, “sure” and the guy was kind of shocked. “There’s no dog back there.” (too soon) and he asked, “how do I get access?” I pointed at the tiny gate. . . and he was like “Oh it’s just a gate.”

Well Brad later told me there’s a huge pink spike in the back yard.

If that’s the measurement on where they’re going to do the continuous-flow intersection, that means more than half of our backyard would be gone!

So we got a nice pink notice on our door last night about a council meeting on Monday night to discuss what’s going to happen to our lovely intersection on 4100 south.

Brad is a bit freaked out and pissed off. He thought we’d be living here til we retired. And when we bought this house, I was thinking the same thing. But I will have to say the govt. bought our house . . there would be some perks in the situation.

1. We wouldn’t be losing money on the house. . . well at least I hope so. We can take the chunk of money and put it towards another house.
2. Getting away from most of our neighbors. We’ve been here for 4yrs and we really only like our neighbors to the north. The rest is annoying. The guy across the street and he’s scrap metal collecting. His big trucks. . he doesn’t even care about his yard because it’s a rental. The hispanics on the corner across the street blarin’ their stereos. The polys two houses down, drinking, pit bulls, and their yard looks like crap too. And don’t forget our neighbors to the south. Half naked. Animal fattin’ to eat. Burning aspen wood in a pit. Red-neck sign!
3. The housing market is geared towards buying. The interest rates are super low. We’re not in a bidding war like we were when we bought the place.

More tiny reasons why I could let this house go.

I think the plan for family would be kind of crazy depending on when they want us out and depending on the sale price.

Gut our house. . meaning taking everything we can! A/C, waterheater. . . everything that I thought would be value because they’re just going to take the house down.

Store most of our furniture and stuff.

Rent a 2bedroom apt (because 3br would cost the same as mortgage) sure Pepper would have to stay in our room for a bit, but it’s totally doable.

I would want the boy to finish his year at Pioneer.

And then look for a house again. . . and this time not so close to a major-major road that could later turn on us.