Lehi residents whose homes would be demolished should the preferred route for the Mountain View freeway become reality are speaking out, even as Saratoga Springs is attacking Lehi's bid to move the freeway.

Homeowners along Railroad Street and 900 West in Lehi said they have been forced to rely on rumors about the future of their homes and neighborhood.

UDOT will hold what could be the last public hearing on the Mountain View Corridor in Utah County tonight from 4-8 p.m. at Willow Creek Middle School at 2275 W. 300 North. UDOT's plan will next go before the Federal Highway Administration for final approval.

UDOT recently released a list of homes and property that could be taken to build the freeway and connected roads, but said they have not spoken with individual property owners because the federal government has yet to approve UDOT's preferred plan.

Frank and Vickie Snyder's home is on the list.

Their only source of information has been neighbors, they said. They had heard through their LDS home teachers that their home and property were being considered for taking.

"Basically there is nothing we can do," Vickie Snyder said.

"If they decide to take it, they will take it no matter what," Frank Snyder said.

The couple said they have been stressed by the uncertainty of their situation. Frank lost two arms and suffered a permanent head injury six years ago when he was accidentally electrocuted, and five weeks later their home burned down. The couple's new home was built by friends and neighbors.

"We don't know what is going to happen to our home, and we have enough stress," he said.

Their biggest fear is suddenly finding they don't have a home, Vickie said. The couple wants reassurance that if their home is taken, they will be paid enough to replace it with a similar home.

Brandi and Don Walther have rented their home on 900 West for the past eight years. About two years ago they began the process of buying the home, but halted their efforts after hearing rumors the home was going to be taken by UDOT to build the new freeway and connecting roads.

"I would have liked to have stayed here, but we are pretty flexible," Brandi Walther said. "We have brought two babies home here. I tried to call UDOT when we were trying to purchase the house, but all I got was a recording."

She is most worried about how UDOT's plans will affect her neighbors, she said.

Janice Kolan has lived in the home two doors down from the Walthers for 50 years. What concerns her most is that her home is not on the list to be purchased.

"What is the value of our home going to be?" she said. "It is going to drop considerably. Nobody is going to want to live on a freeway offramp."

If UDOT refuses to purchase the family home, which she has sold to her son, it will be unsalable, she said.

Kolan said she already cannot open her windows at any time of year because the noise of the freeway is so loud. She does not want to live on the edge of a freeway, and fears the road will devalue her home so much she could not afford another home even if she could find a buyer. "I don't want to be in an island," she said, noting commuter rail is slated to go in on the other side of her home. She fears her neighborhood will be decimated physically and morally by the freeway plans.

"It just makes me absolutely sick, I tell you," said Donna Jones, who has lived in her home on Railroad Street for 57 years. UDOT's proposal would take homes from behind and to the side of her, and it is not clear if UDOT will be taking part of her backyard, she said. She too does not want to suddenly find herself feet from a freeway onramp. Not knowing is frustrating, and she has had no communication with UDOT.

"I'm not happy," said Jones, who gave her age as "78 and holding." "I'd like them to leave us alone. I just had my roof shingled. I'm planning on being here until I go to the other side, and I'm not planning on that any time soon."

Everyone interviewed said the city has not done enough to protect them from UDOT, and they feel abandoned. Lehi has protested UDOT's preferred plan, which would build the freeway along 2100 North.

Saratoga Springs, American Fork, Eagle Mountain and other cities have supported the 2100 North plan. Saratoga Springs this week mailed 12,000 letters to its residents and residents of Eagle Mountain and Lehi, calling the 2100 North plan "the only reasonable alternative to meet the future transportation needs of northern Utah County."

Lehi's bid to move the freeway crossing into Salt Lake County and build a bridge between Redwood Road and I-15 at the Point of the Mountain instead "would remove any possibility for uninterrupted travel across northern Utah County," wrote Saratoga Springs Mayor Tim Parker in his letter. "Lehi City's bridge proposal, if adopted, will have terrible and permanent consequences for the residents of northern Utah County."

UDOT's preferred plan along 2100 North in Lehi "is at risk and will affect your quality of life if you do not speak up," wrote Parker.

Lehi Mayor Howard Johnson was in a late meeting and could not be reached for comment.

The number of homes and businesses in Utah County that would be taken under the Mountain View Corridor Southern Freeway proposal is 136. Thirty-two homes and businesses would be taken by UDOT under the 2100 North proposal and 74 would be taken under the Arterials Alternative.

UDOT has identified other properties, called strip takes, where a portion of the property, not the whole property, will need to be taken. These are not included in those numbers.

For a list of properties that will be impacted by relocation and strip takes, visit http://udot.utah.gov/mountainview/draft_eis.php and click on Vol. 1, Chapter 6A.