The claim
No bond was required for Pony Express Parkway
“Why didn't the city make big tech bond for Pony Express since they were going to ruin it from driving on it?”
Seen: Eagle Mountain City Tax Referendum Facebook group, August 2026.
The record contradicts it.
Put as a failure that already happened. The company is funding the entire project, and a bond is not the instrument that does this job.
The numbers
What’s true
The corridor is the city's biggest cost problem, and residents are right that it has been paid for locally for years. In May 2019 the council approved a UDOT Transportation Infrastructure Fund loan of up to $2,000,000 for widening Pony Express Parkway, and further work ran through 2024 and 2025.
Where it goes wrong
A subdivision improvement bond guarantees that a developer finishes and warranties roads inside its own project, so the city is not left with an unfinished street. There is nothing to guarantee completion of when an existing employer's staff drive an existing public arterial. The lawful tools there are impact fees and negotiated reimbursement or participation agreements, and a reimbursement agreement is what the mayor said he opened the QTS call by proposing. The result was QTS paying the whole bill.
Where this comes from
Every finding here is drawn from an open-meeting recording or a published document. Check it yourself.
“QTS, I made one phone call to them and said, hey, maybe we could do a reimbursement agreement, like how to work this out.”
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More checks on roads & impact fees
- Not accurateA $5.5 million gift was spent on a road
- Accurate, but incompleteBig Tech should have bonded for the road
- MisleadingThirty years of impact fees for Pony Express
- Accurate, but incompleteDevelopers are made to bond for roads
Checked August 21, 2026. Nothing goes on the fact-check list unless an open-meeting recording or a published document can settle it: the rules. Spot a mistake? civicrollcall@gmail.com