State law requires the county to hold a public hearing in order to vacate a road.
The view of the road department conflicts with the view of the Grand County Planning Commission and staff, which two weeks ago recommended Cloudrock's preliminary plat application for approval by the Grand County Council. The resort developers, Moab Mesa Land Company, plan to turn the mesa into a gated community, though they have said they will allow non-motorized public access on the mesa through some sort of fee and permit system. Prior to the planning commission's public hearing on Cloudrock, lawyers for MMLC offered their legal opinion that the mesa roads were not county roads. They also asked that the county designate those roads as private lanes. But Grand County Road Supervisor Dave Warner says the main road leading up onto the mesa and park way across the top of the mesa is part of the county B road system.