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What
is a Street Maintenance Fee?
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Street Maintenance Fee (sometimes known as a Transportation
Utility Fee, Road User Fee, or Street Utility
Fee) is a monthly fee based on use of the transportation
system that is collected from residences and businesses
within Lake Oswego city limits. The fee is based
on the number of trips a particular land use generates
and is collected through the City's regular utility
bill. It is designated for use in the maintenance
and repair of the City's transportation system.
Users of the road system share the costs of the
corrective and preventive maintenance needed to
keep the street system operating at an adequate
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What
does the Street Maintenance Fee do? |
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It
helps preserve the City's investment in the
street infrastructure by providing revenue to
maintain and repair the City's streets.
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Why
a Street Maintenance Fee in Lake Oswego?
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In the past, the largest funding source for maintenance
of the City's street system was the State Gas
Tax which has been used to pay for street maintenance
and the energy and maintenance costs for the street
lights and traffic signal systems citywide.
The City Council determined that the gas tax
must be supplemented by additional funding sources
to complete pavement overlays, pavement treatments
and reconstruction work that are necessary to
keep the street system functioning satisfactorily.
On November 4, 2003, the Lake Oswego City Council
approved the implementation of a Street Maintenance
Fee as the preferred alternative source of funding
for the City's street infrastructure investment.
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What
kind of street system do we have?
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Of Lake Oswego's 181 miles of streets, 12% are
arterials (e.g., Boones Ferry Road); 16% are collectors
(e.g., Bryant Road); and 72% are residential streets
(e.g., Twin Fir Road). The investment value
is currently valued at $270.7 million.
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Why
is there a need for timely maintenance of Lake
Oswego's streets?
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Through
timely maintenance of streets, cities are better
able to provide safe roads on which people may
travel. Studies have shown that pavement condition
worsens at an increasing rate as the pavement
gets older. Restoration of pavement near the end
of its service life will typically cost 4 to 5
times more than rejuvenation performed in a timely
manner.
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The City Council
established a policy that residents within Lake
Oswego city limits would be the sole beneficiaries
of the investments made in the City's street system.
To that end, revenue will only be invested in
streets under the ownership and maintenance control
of the City. Streets outside the City's boundary are maintained by other agencies.
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What
kind of street treatments are available? |
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Crack Sealing
- Injection of hot tar or asphalt into cracks
and paving seams.
Slurry Seal - Very thin layer of liquid
asphalt and sand used to seal street surfaces.
Overlay - A new layer of asphalt or concrete,
which adds structural strength and seals the surface.
Rehabilitation - Surface repairs to streets.
Examples include slurry seals and overlays.
Reconstruction - The most expensive street
treatment, reconstruction entails extensive street
repair work that involves excavating the existing
street and rebuilding road bed and surface layers.
At least four to five times more costly than rehabilitation.
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How
are the Street Maintenance Fee determined?
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An
inventory of all the existing uses on occupied
parcels in the City provided the starting point
for calculating the Street Maintenance Fee rates
for the City of Lake Oswego.
The
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) trip
generation rates were then used to determine trip
generation values for each use. Residential
and non-residential groups were established to
help generate a maintenance fee rate to be applied
to each group. The trip generation rates for non-residential
uses most commonly are "number of trips per
thousand gross square feet of building per day".
Single Family (Detached)
- Multi-family
- Group 1 - Land uses with less than 29 vehicle-trip-miles
per day per 1,000 sf. of building space
- Group 2 - Land uses with more than 29, but
less than 90, vehicle-trip-miles per day per
1,000 sf. of building space
- Group 3 - Land uses with more than 90 vehicle-trip-miles
per day per 1,000 sf. of building space
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What
are the rates that each trip generation group
will pay?
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Typical
Investments, rates current through June 30, 2010
(per unit or 1,000 square feet)
| Residential (per SFR*) |
Multi-Family (per MFR**) |
Non-Residential
Group 1 |
Non-Residential
Group 2 |
Non-Residential
Group 3 |
$4.00 |
$2.68 |
$2.45 |
$5.51 |
$20.58 |
*Single Family Residential
**Multi-Family Residential
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How
much does the fee cost local service providers
and businesses?
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Non-residential
fees vary based upon the type and gross floor
area (GFA) of businesses. Typical ranges are between
$4.00 and $20.58 per 1,000 sf of GFA. Some
examples are shown as follows:
- Example
1: A medical-dental office building falls
into non-residential Group 2. The unit of
measure is 1,000 square feet of gross floor
area. Assuming the office building has 10,000
square feet of gross floor area, the multiplier
would be 10,000/1,000 = 10. The group rate
of $5.51 multiplied by 10 equals $55.10 per
month.
- Example
2: A 24-hour convenience market falls
into non-residential Group 3. If the market
has 5,000 square feet of gross floor area,
the monthly rate for that market would be
the group rate of $20.58 per month multiplied
by 5 (5,000/1,000) to produce a monthly bill
of $102.90.
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Yes.
The cities of Ashland, Eagle Point, Eugene/Springfield,
Hubbard, La Grande, Medford, Phoenix, Talent,
Tigard, Tualatin, and Wilsonville all have a Street Maintenance
Fee.
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Who
can I contact for questions regarding the Street
Maintenance Fee?
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Crystal M. Shum, P.E.
Associate Engineer
380 A Avenue
P. O. Box 369
Lake Oswego, Oregon
Phone: 503.697.7420
Fax: 503.635.0269
e-mail
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