County staff will help cities identify LARs suitable for annexation, which would result in changing the LAR to a city street. LARs outside UGBs can be considered for county roads.
A way to reduce subdivision construction costs—added to Oregon statutes in 1981—turns out to have negative long-term consequences. Decades later, property owners on local access roads are asking county commissioners for help. During a work session April 29, Lane County’s Transportation Planning Supervisor Cassidy Mills:
[00:00:22] Cassidy Mills (Lane County Public Works): I’ll just share a little bit about the history and challenges of local access roads.
[00:00:26] Most LARs were built between 60 and 100 years ago, primarily by the private sector to gain access to property divisions and development. LARs are a mechanism developers have historically used to provide access to subdivided property at a lower cost than building to a county road standard…