Southern Ute Division of Transportation (SUDOT)

Mission

Ensure that Tribal lands are preserved, occupied or developed in a manner which at all times considers and adheres to the best interests of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. 

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Road Maintenance Request

• SU Road Maintenance Update
• Road Maintenance Matrix
• SUDOT Tiered SU Routes

Current Planning Documents

The following are Tribal Council approved documents that help guide transportation, land use designation and expansion, capital improvement projects, and more. All plans have gone through vetting processes that include Tribal Member and Tribal Leadership comment periods and often incorporate critical partners such as other Tribal Departments and Divisions, local towns and cities, counties, states, planning organizations, and even federal entities. The Southern Ute Division of Transportation (SUDOT) has digital copies of all the following;

2022 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)

The Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) is a critical transportation planning document that the Tribe strives to update on a periodic basis. This plan functions to show a number of near- (1-2 years), mid- (3-6 years) and long- (7+ years) term projects that affect the Tribal membership and public at large. The Division of Transportation uses this document not only to identify those projects by the categories mentioned above, but to also guide future development to address life safety issues, healthy transportation, and transit growth, and to keep our roads in compliance with federal standards. Through this document, the annual Control Schedule is created to show which projects will receive federal funding. The projects and overall planning document also help the Tribe to identify multiple partner agencies for projects, which have included the Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Town of Ignacio, and La Plata County, among others. Finally, we use the document to solicit additional grant funding where applicable.

• SUIT Long Range Transportation Plan 2022 *

2016 Tribal Transportation Safety Plan (TTSP)

In 2016, in conjunction with the Tribe’s LRTP update, SUDOT was awarded an additional safety grant to produce its first ever iteration of the Tribal Transportation Safety Plan (TTSP). This document further elaborates on critical safety problems that affect the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the greater Four Corners region. Through the creation process of the plan, the Tribe solicited responses from Tribal Members and key stakeholders about what the most important transportation safety issues were and how we might creatively solve them going forward. In addition to a litany of data to help drive projects based on the pursuit of safety, the document provides four areas of action that can be applied to a number of issues. As in the 2016 LRTP, a number of specific safety-oriented projects were identified during the plan iteration, many of which have been actively worked on since the plan was formally adopted in 2017.

• SUIT Safety Plan 2016 *

2005 Comprehensive Master Land Use Plan (Update in progress)

The 2005 Comprehensive Master Land Use Plan (CMLUP) shows another dynamic side of the Southern Ute Division of Transportation, as our focus is largely shifted from transportation issues and re-purposed to focus on land use designation and capital development within the Tribal Campus and areas in near proximity. The 2005 plan is still cited today in the development of projects and helped promote ideal and suitable locations for a number of large projects such as Growth Fund II, the Sky Ute Casino Resort, the Southern Ute Museum and Cultural Center and the Multi-Purpose Facility and Chapel. In many cases, rather than identifying sites specifically meant for one project, land was examined for fitting “designations” such as office, recreational, cultural, residential, and others. A plan update began in 2017 and more work is required before it can be submitted to succeed the current 2005 plan.

• Comprehensive Master Land Use Plan 2005 *

* These plans do not include appendices due to the size constraints and limiting of some information for anyone who accesses the website; these appendices for every document are available from the Southern Ute Division of Transportation upon request.

For additional information on any of the projects or plans previously mentioned or to learn more about the functions of SUDOT, please contact us at 970-563-2283.

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