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MOORHEAD Chris
Tuesday, August 18,200912:54 PM
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L1MBIRD Andrew
"The Cottage Collection" cluster development plat at Mountaingate, Private road names
I Peggy,
I just talked with Andy Limbird, planner on this project after researching the Springfield Development code and not
finding any street naming requirements for cluster developments. Andy stated that the lack of names on the private
streets was as the developer had proposed, and being that there is no specific condition requiring private streets in a
cluster development and that the Development Services Department, developer, and our addressing folks were OK with
having all lots be addressed on Mountaingate Drive, it was apJroved. It wasn't much of an addressing issue because it
was to be addressed in the same way apartments or condos a~e done. The developer had proposed names at the
beginning of the Mountaingate project, but Andy did say that the names they had first proposed did not meet the road
naming standards. The developer's next submittal did not have road names.
I did take a quick look at the ORS, and didn't find anything on "cluster -type developments". In Ch. 92 the definition of
road or street is: (92.010)
(14) "Road" or "street" means a public or private way that is created to provide ingress or egress for persons to one or
more lots, parcels, areas or tracts of land, excluding a private way that is created to provide ingress or egress to such
land in conjunction with the use of such land for forestry, mining or agricultural purposes.
Also, 92.0S0(4){d) does state "Each street is named and shown on the plat."
. I think it looks like this is one of those sticky situations where it is not absolutely clear what defines a "road or street",
but I would think that labeling an area a "Street" etc. would define it as such. On the Cottage Collection plat, the areas
are not labeled as "roads" or "streets", just as a "private access (etc) easement". Essentially, to me, it seems the same
as a "private access easement" as would be shown on many partition plats. Also I just took a look at some other
"Cluster" subdivisions on the County site and it looks like there are clusters both ways, some with names on the'accesses
(Fox Pines, Aubrey Farm), and others without named accesses (Kendra Park Cluster, Jason Cluster, Lorane Cluster, East
Campus Cluster).
But, overall I hope this should suffice for an explanation, and I think enough people understand the addressing
agreements that there shouldn't be an issue later.
Chris
Chris Moorhead, PiS, CWRE
SUlVeyor, City of Springfield Public WOIKs.
225 Fifth Stree~ Springfield, Oregon 97477
Tel. 541-736-1011
Fax 541-726-3781
cmoorheadiEiJci.sorinafield. or. us
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