TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Transportation
MEETING DATE: January 22, 2019
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Howard N. Dashiell
PHONE:
463-4363
ITEM TYPE: Regular Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: 90 Min.
AGENDA TITLE:
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Discussion and Possible Action Including Acceptance of Presentation Regarding Private Roads as Emergency Access and/or Evacuation Routes - Preliminary Feasibility/Funding/Practical Factors (Countywide)
(Sponsor: Department of Transportation)
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RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
recommendation
Accept presentation regarding Private Roads as Emergency Access and/or Evacuation Routes - Preliminary Feasibility/Funding/ Practical Factors (Countywide); and provide direction as appropriate.
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PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
The Board of Supervisors (BOS) received updates at the BOS meeting of October 16, 2018, (item 5c and item 5d) from the Ad Hoc Committee for Second Access Roads and Brooktrails Emergency Access and/or Evacuation Routes.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
Consider providing for basic "private (dirt) road" emergency access road maintenance efforts by agreement will willing owners over their resource type roads or private road association roads by establishment of new Mendocino County Policies or Codes that define the legal authority and responsibility to participate in "Private Roads as Emergency Access and/or Evacuation Routes."
Specifically, as a beginning demonstration, based on past Board of Supervisors discussions, we will look at two case studies:
1) Case Study: Old FirCO logging haul road that connects with Poppy Drive between the Willits Airport and Sherwood Road in the Brooktrails Subdivision. This "case study" is known as Brooktrails & Region Emergency Travel Route 2A. There is information from past public road feasibility studies.
2) Case Study: use of a private subdivision road connecting Pearl Drive to Canyon Drive in the Mitchell Creek Subdivision. This "case study" is known as the Pearl/Canyon Alternative....
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