Residents press Lane County to accept 'local access roads' into maintenance system, decrying cost and fairness

Jun 9, 2026

Multiple River Road neighborhood residents urged the county to adopt a pragmatic, equitable approach to accepting local access roads (LARs) into the maintenance system, arguing the Public Works report inflates costs and creates barriers that unfairly shift responsibility to homeowners.

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Several River Road neighborhood residents told the Lane County Board of Commissioners on June 9 that the county’s recent Public Works report on local access roads (LARs) failed to account for the human and financial burden on homeowners and recommended steps to accept those roads into the county maintenance system more quickly and equitably.

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