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Pinetop Lakeside council adopts new road-maintenance code, removes confusing "courtesy" category
Summary
The Town Council voted unanimously to rescind older roadway-acceptance resolutions and adopt ordinance 25-4-80 (chapter 12.26), creating a formal process and standards for accepting and maintaining town streets and removing several "courtesy maintenance" listings.
Pinetop Lakeside — The Town Council voted unanimously to rescind Resolution 91-253 and adopt Ordinance 25-4-80, adding chapter 12.26 to the town code to formalize how roadways are accepted into the town-maintenance program and how they will be prioritized for repair.
The change replaces an older three-category regime and eliminates a confusing “courtesy maintenance” label for a handful of roads that the town had not been funding, Town staff member Matt told the council during a public hearing. The new code aligns road classifications with common municipal practice — arterials, collectors and local streets — and sets out a petition process and minimum construction standards for roads the town may accept for long-term maintenance.
Matt said the town’s work for the past decade will be folded into the new chapter so the public can follow a clear process for getting a road accepted. “We had a weird category called,…
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