Ninety-two public roads in Eugene with hundreds of homes, are not owned or maintained by any government, and the people who live on them are trying to change that.
Local Access Roads are defined in a 1981 Oregon law. They are public in the sense that anyone can travel on them and the right-of-way must be kept open, but aren’t owned by a city, county or state government.
LARS exist statewide, but Lane County is unique for having so many in an urban area. Of the 514 LARs in Lane County, 167 are inside urban growth boundaries, 92 of which are in Eugene’s UGB, totaling 12 miles of roadway…