Agenda Packet 9-10-18 Work Session

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September 10, 2018, Work Session – Item 3 EUGENE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Work Session: Improvement of Unimproved Roads Meeting Date: September 10, 2018 Agenda Item Number: 3 Department: Public Works Engineering Staff Contact: Mark Schoening www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-5243 ISSUE STATEMENT This work session is to review the elements to consider and the practical application for an ordinance to be drafted in response to the following council motion passed at the council work session on June 21, 2017: In furtherance of the City Council’s policy choices regarding densification, Vision Zero and complete streets, any new housing development of (x) number of units or greater that is predominantly served by sub-standard road(s) triggers road improvements that will be completed with (x) years of the development’s approval, paid for by the developer and/or the City, but at no cost to the neighboring property owners, that bring the road up to a condition consistent with the Council’s Vision Zero Policy. BACKGROUND The City Council held a work session on June 21, 2017, on New Housing Development on Unimproved Roads to discuss the following issues raised in the poll for the work session: • Potential policy changes that consider developer, resident and City responsibility for bringing unimproved roads to City standards • Implications of outward growth decisions as they affect unimproved roads. • Development of a comprehensive plan for unimproved streets (including County roads as they are brought into the city through annexation) • The idea of policy changes toward County road annexations without a plan for their improvement to City standards There are 490 miles of improved roads and 52 miles of unimproved roads within the City of Eugene. The estimated cost to improve the unimproved roads to meet urban street design standards is approximately $60 million. There are approximately an additional 68 miles of improved roads and 47 miles of unimproved roads within the City’s urban growth boundary, but currently outside the city limits. The eight maps in Attachment A show the residential land supply developed as part of the buildable lands inventory and the unimproved and partially improved roads within the City’s Urban Growth Boundary.