Linda Lovick: If any of you commissioners or your Public Works Department colleagues lived on an LAR, none of you would pass it off with a sympathetic nod.
Presenter: Lane County is asked to right a wrong that has left many River Road and Santa Clara residents feeling like second-class citizens. During public comment June 24, Linda Lovick:
Linda Lovick: I’m returning to petition you all again on behalf of us local access road residents in River Road and Santa Clara neighborhoods. The vast majority of us in this situation just learned our LAR status and its implications a few months ago.
[00:00:28] As a reminder, these LARs are first and foremost geographically within the Lane County public road system. LARs are connected to, feed into, lead off of county-maintained roads. And in every other way, most LARs are indistinguishable from the county-maintained roads. They also are within the much-later-developed urban growth boundary, which the county uses to resist declaring the LARs part of its system and further requires the city to annex them…