Resources for Municipal Representatives

As a city or municipal professional, you are the technical architect behind the success of every Safe Routes Utah plan. While schools identify where their students live, your expertise in engineering, public works, and planning is what transforms those community-drawn lines into viable, data-backed safety corridors. By serving on a school’s Safety Committee, you provide the essential link between recommendations and goals, and municipal reality, ensuring that school crosswalks align with current traffic studies, crossing guards are positioned for maximum impact, and signage meets state MUTCD standards. Your involvement not only fulfills local government obligations under Utah law but also builds a proactive partnership that allows your city to identify high-priority infrastructure gaps, qualify for state safety grants, and ultimately create a more walkable, livable community for your most vulnerable residents.

Each school’s Traffic Safety Committee (Community Council) is responsible for submitting their Safe Routes Utah plan annually to affected municipalities and counties for each elementary, middle, and junior high school within the district (7A.02.11). It is the city’s responsibility to review those plans and ensure that they are consistent with current municipal plans, and identify ways that the city can reduce or eliminate hazards near schools. 

Plans are required for all K-8 schools, including public, private and charter schools.