River Road/Santa Clara Urban Services Committees Final Report and Recommendations

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SPECIFIC SERVICE RECOMMENDATIONS l STORM SEWER (continued) ' i The City of Eugene needs to make contractors accountable for their impact on the various drainage waterways. When the City of Eugene allows a new development, it needs to take into consideration the y impact on the drainage system. Goals and Recommendations • Lane County should institute a regular scheduled leaf pick-up coordinated with the Eugene schedule. ~ • Eugene and Lane County need to develop consistent plans, regulations, and practices and work together to address storm water and drainage issues. • Both agencies need to ensure new development provides adequate drainage and minimizes ' impacts on the drainage systems. There needs to be a coordinated enforcement and follow-up on illegal dumping and filling of the natural drainage channels and ditches. TRANSPORTATION AND STREET MAINTENANCE By Susan Miller How the Service is Provided: Street maintenance within the River Road and Santa Clara area is coordinated through an intergovern- mental agreement (IGA) between the City of Eugene's Public Works Maintenance Division and Lane ~ County's Public Works Engineering Division. The 1999 street maintenance IGA developed clear borders for each agency: the County maintains all streets north of Belt Line and the areas west of River Road and south of Belt Line. The City maintains those streets south of Belt Line and east of River Road. The exception is that the City maintains the roadway surface, signs, striping and traffic signals on River Road itself from the Chambers overpass to Irving Rd. In this agreement, the City maintains 21.35 miles of County roads and the County maintains 18.96 miles of City roads. i Annexed areas in River Road and Santa Clara are maintained according to urban standards regardless of whether services are provided by the City or County. The County/City Road Partnership Program Agreement, adopted in 1997, provides for the transfer of County roads to Eugene or Springfield when areas are annexed. In at least one instance (Greenwood Street off Scenic) this has led to a gravel street paved, curbed and guttered on the half of the street nearest the annexed property, leaving the other half graveled. The City's priority for maintenance is focused on streets with curbs and gutters, minimal maintenance on asphalt streets without curbs and gutters, and zero maintenance on gravel streets. The City does minimal maintenance on streets not up to City standards. Routine maintenance includes ~ potholes, etc. but not overlay or sealing programs. _ 45