From: KIEFFER Loretta L

Sent: Thu Apr 20 09:03:17 2017

To: BACON Dan W; KEYES Michael E

Cc: Gerald Fisher (gfisher@cityofmolalla.com)

Subject: FW: Stowers & Main in Molalla

Importance: Normal

Attachments: RE: 100 Stowers Street, Molalla- Sidewalk;

From the way I am interpreting this email we can go ahead and install the single ADA ramp that Gerald recommended.

From: GUTIERREZ Rodger C

Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 4:33 PM

To: KIEFFER Loretta L; Gerald Fisher (gfisher@cityofmolalla.com)

Cc: CHRISTOPHER Basil R; KIMLINGER Michael J; SHOBLOM Heidi E; PAPPE Robert G; KEYES Michael E; BACON Dan W

Subject: Stowers & Main in Molalla

Loretta,

I have read the emails you have sent me about the missing curb ramp at this corner. The impression I get from it is that we do not have the resources available to get the ideal solution at this corner and that we have a pressing need to fill this sidewalk gap that is inaccessible to the public right now. Based on this understanding of the conditions here, we concur with an ‘emergency maintenance’ approach that fills this sidewalk gap with one curb ramp – and that we will need to come back with the ideal fix later.

The standard is two curb ramps per corner unless one direction is closed. We took a preliminary look at the corner and believe that it may not be approved for closure. Each curb ramp is required to have a detailed design to help ensure that slopes are met. I understand that the proposed design is a sketch rather than an engineered drawing. Curb ramps have to pass inspection using the ODOT ADA Curb Ramp Inspection Forms 734-5020. It sounds like a single curb ramp directed across Stowers Road is feasible and that the contractor can be held to meet the requirements in the standard drawing. I understand that these were not the contractor’s expectations and it sounds like it took some convincing to get the contractor to come back to do any work here at this point. We cannot altogether waive the ADA requirements, but recognize that something is better than nothing. I believe we can provide a curb ramp that serves the crossing of Stowers Road now and we can add the second curb ramp at the corner across Main Street in the future. We would need to use an ODOT ADA Curb Ramp Design Exception to explain the decision to provide one ramp instead of two because of the circumstances at hand. Since the contractor is not an engineer, I think the Design Exception would be requested by the City. I can help with that.

Thanks,

Rodger Gutierrez, P.E.

ADA & Bicycle/Pedestrian Engineer | Oregon Department of Transportation| rodger.c.gutierrez@odot.state.or.us | 503-986-3554