The family owns 60 acres of agricultural land near the Pleasant Grove I-15 Interchange. For the past seven years the city has been trying to acquire 10 acres for a road and wants to pay for the land through vouchers the family could cash in later.

"When I pay my city bill it's not with vouchers, it's with cash," said Stan Smith, representative for the family of seven siblings who all own parcels of the property.

But now city officials have abandoned the idea of building 2000 West. The city will instead concentrate on extending Sam White Lane eastward to connect to 700 North in Lindon this spring.

The road, if built, would be a three-lane extension of 2000 West from State Street to the interchange -- providing access to American Fork Hospital and the Mount Timpanogos LDS Temple. It could also attract commercial business to an area that has been landlocked.

Members of the Smith family, along with other property owners, have told the city that while they are not against the road being built, they want fair compensation for their land.

"We are ready and willingly to sell the property at fair market value," Smith said. "How can members of society in good conscious expect a few to sacrifice and the rest bask in the benefits? Why should we?"

Mayor Jim Danklef said they will not have to sacrifice because the city will no longer try to acquire the property. "It's not on the radar," he said. "There are plenty of others to develop."

Smith is not the only property owner who does not want to sell for vouchers. Bob Hall, who lives on 2000 West and owns 2 acres of land the city wants, said he doesn't care if the road is built. He said part of the land the city wants he saw as an investment for retirement.

"I don't think the impact vouchers are fair at all," Hall said. "It would take too long a time to be worth anything."

The impact fee vouchers would mean property owners would give the land to the city for the road now, and the city would in turn give the owners vouchers that they could cash in lieu of paying for impact fees on development in the future, Danklef said.

Smith said his family members are worried they won't see development fast enough to be able to recoup the benefits from the vouchers. He said the city should instead look into bonding for the road, as they did in 2000 to build Pleasant Grove Boulevard, the city's main connector to the interchange. Smith said the city doesn't take the property owners seriously.

"They think of us as poor dumb farmers," Smith said.

But Danklef said the city doesn't want to bond because the property is not worth much without the road.

Edward Sanderson, former mayor of Pleasant Grove when the boulevard was planned, said if the city needs to condemn or bond to get the land, then they should do it. He said this road is important because it provides the loop to the northern cities in the county and alleviates 500 East in American Fork.

"It is a vital portion of transportation to the north end of the county," Sanderson said. "I think 2000 West is the next one that must happen."

Danklef said the road benefits the northern cities much more than Pleasant Grove and that's why it is not a priority for the city.