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To: Foerstler, Kevin (RIS1) <br />Cc: McVey, Fred <br />Hammitt, Bob (RIS1) <br />Subject: Vegetation Policy on Excess R/W <br />Date: 1993 -09 -08 08:21 <br />Priority: <br />Message ID: 35422FBB <br />Conversation ID: 35422FBB <br />Kevin, Bob Hammitt briefed me on the situation regarding Delta Highway North <br />and the question of how much R/W the property owners next to the mobile home <br />park should be responsible for. <br />I seem to remember that we established a policy a number of years ago that <br />the property owner was responsible for up to a maximum of thirty feet. This <br />was done in a similar situation (Centennial Blvd.) where we took over a <br />street from the County in which they were mowing by County forces and we <br />needed to transition it into our policy framework. The specific area in <br />question was the area immediately west of the entrance into Chevy Chase on <br />the south side of Centennial. <br />The logic for establishing thirty feet was this: We have approximately four <br />miles worth of undeveloped dedicated R /W. We have for years been telling <br />the property owners that abut these properties that they were responsible <br />for vegetation control un to the centerline of the street. With these R /Ws <br />typically being sixty feet, each property owner was responsible for half of <br />that (thirty feet). Therefore, the thought was that in cases where we had <br />odd R/W widths we needed to require the property owners to maintain the <br />first thirty feet closest to their properties to be consistent with the <br />above situation. In other words, it wouldn't be fair to require less of <br />abutting property owners in other cases than we did on the undeveloped R /Ws. <br />I don't think this got written down in the policy manual. I suspect the <br />revision and the development of the policy came close to the same time. I <br />guess this is something we need to address in the next policy manual <br />revision. <br />Come to think of it, we have other changes in policies to add as well. What <br />we are doing about designated wetlands needs to be documented as well when <br />we get the chance. <br />In any case, I hope the above was helpful. Johnny <br />