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Department of Transportation recommending the Board adopt Resolution 204-2011 accepting the 0.2 mile section of Boulder Mountain Drive into the County of El Dorado Maintained Mileage System.
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Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost: There is no fiscal impact related to this action; however, this change in the County Maintained Mileage System will impact the Department's future maintenance budgets.
Reason for Recommendation:
The Department of Transportation (Department) has completed discussions with the United States Forest Service - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (USFS) with respect to this section of Boulder Mountain Drive and they have accepted our conditions set forth within the Resolution (attached) to incorporate the 0.2 mile section into the County Maintained Mileage System. This section of Boulder Mountain Drive will connect to the existing northerly and southerly Boulder Mountain Drive 50-foot road right-of-way sections already within the County Maintained Mileage System (County Road #2205B and #2206 respectively).
Adoption of Boulder Mountain Road as a County Highway and acceptance into the County Maintained System is necessary to the public convenience because, among other reasons, the road serves as a connector for two subdivisions, providing each subdivision with an additional escape route in case of emergency and additional access for emergency responders. The County of El Dorado holds a prescriptive road easement over this section of Boulder Mountain Road, which has been utilized as a public road since no later than the late 1960s.
Furthermore, this Resolution will provide the necessary documentation to the USFS with respect to maintenance responsibilities as well as allow the Department to receive and expend grant funds for erosion control and water quality improvements within this 0.2 mile 50-foot roadway section as part of the Boulder Mountain Erosion Control Project (JN 95153).
Action to be taken following Board approval:
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