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Residents urge action on unpaved Doris Drive spur; Firewise group and property owners warn of evacuation risk
Summary
Multiple residents and the Washington Hill Firewise group told the council that an unpaved portion of Doris Drive and constrained egress near North Church Street create evacuation and safety risks; residents requested regular grading and graveling and clarifications about city responsibility, while staff said the unpaved section is private property
Several residents from the North Church Street / Doris Drive neighborhood urged the Grass Valley City Council to address an unimproved spur of Doris Drive they say poses a safety and evacuation risk in a wildfire or other emergency.
Virginia Whitehead, leader of the Washington Hill Firewise Community, told the council her neighborhood’s boundaries have expanded to roughly 400 residences and that a short, unimproved section of Doris Drive between North Church Street and the Cypress Hill development is now the only secondary egress in some parts of the neighborhood. "If there ever was a fire or something that blocked North Church, everyone would be evacuating out of…
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