Council approves 10 property conveyances and easements to ODOT for ADA ramp upgrades

The Grants Pass City Council approved a set of ten separate resolutions (items 2a–2j) authorizing the sale or conveyance of small portions of city property, and temporary or permanent easements, to the Oregon Department of Transportation for Phase 3 of a statewide ADA ramp upgrade project.

Wade Elliott, assistant director, briefed the council on the project background, explaining the action continues a multiyear program of ADA ramp replacements tied to a state settlement. “ODOT lost a lawsuit related to ADA ramp construction on state highways and are under a settlement agreement to replace every ADA ramp within the state,” Elliott told council; he said the state is on schedule to complete roughly 26,000 ramps by 2032 and that the current batch includes ten city properties that require small conveyances, permanent easements or temporary easements for construction and restoration.

Elliott described standard right‑of‑way acquisition procedures: fee acquisitions transfer title of tiny pieces of…