SILVERTONAPPEAL.COM Potholes Continued from Page 2B of asphalt on top. More rock is required if ground conditions are poor. Nicholas said Kenwood was original- ly a gravel road. “And then somewhere along the way, the neighborhood got together and somebody paid a paver to put about four inches of asphalt down, a strip down the middle of the road, and that’s pretty much how it sat for years and years and years,” Nicholas said. The pandemic may have accelerated the decline of the street. With people shut in their homes, they had more products delivered. Now the large, heavy trucks from Amazon, UPS, DHL and FedEx vie with cars delivering food from Jimmy John’s, Door Dash and Uber Eats multiple times a day. “There’s at least three different food trucks that drive up and down the street selling ice cream. One of them sells ta- males,” Andrew Davis said. Residents tell of large trucks with trailers regularly traveling the street to pick up workers or supplies. None of that has helped the condition of the street. Julie Stone, a medical assistant, moved to a house on the street two years ago. She figured she could live with the condition of the road. After all, how much worse could it get? Stone cares for her mother, who lives with her. She’s afraid if a medical emer- gency befell her mother that she wouldn’t be able to get timely medical attention for her. “If anything really bad was to hap- pen, I don’t think I would want to call an ambulance to even come down my street,” she said. “I think I’d have better luck either meeting them halfway or taking her there myself.” How bad is Kenwood Avenue, really? When Christine Davis was looking to purchase a house on Kenwood Avenue in the early 2000s, her biggest concern was the nearby PictSweet Mushroom factory. To say that it smelled bad is drasti- cally underselling it. Located about a quarter-mile away, it perfumed the neighborhood – and every house within miles – with the smell of manure. That closed for good in 2001 and was demolished in 2002. Davis decided the house on Kenwood was worth it. The road, at that time, was bad. But it wasn’t that bad. “It’s probably all right. I can probably deal with it,” she recalls thinking. But now, four-wheel-drive trucks have problems navigating the street. A monster truck would struggle on it. Honda Accords stand no chance. It’s impossible to determine how many potholes are on Kenwood. Many potholes grow until they consume other potholes. Marion County Sheriffs who patrol that area of East Salem do so in Ford Ex- plorers. The Dodge Chargers in the fleet would have a hard time getting down Kenwood. “The bumps and potholes that are on Kenwood make it more like one of the rural roadways we would go to where we are accessing farm communities,” Mar- ion County Sgt. Jeremy Landers said. Oregon Department of Transporta- tion classifies roads based on condition with “very poor” being the worst. It only ranks roads in state, county and city systems. The worst stretch in the state is a five-mile span of Highway 255 in Curry County, according to ODOT spokesper- son Angela Beers Sydel. But that’s pass- able, by any definition. Kenwood wouldn’t be considered passable by any objective measure. Marion County reported 14 miles of road in poor condition to ODOT and Sa- lem reported six miles. Since Kenwood isn’t in the county system, it’s not included. Some people say Elma Avenue – about a quarter-mile west – is worse. The section of Elma between State Street and Hudson Avenue is gravel and has never been paved. But there are three houses on the street – a church and power substation make up most of the frontage – and those houses have entrances off other streets. Kenwood, on the other hand, has over 30 residences, home to people who have no other way to get in and out. “I think ours is probably the worst I’ve seen in Salem,” Sean Smith said. Is anything being done to fix Kenwood? Matt Fipps has hcolllectosted birth- day parties for his children and holiday family get-togethers at his house. “At first, it was kind of jokingly, natu- ral speed bumps, but as it gets worse, it’s harder and harder,” Fipps said. The residents recognize the potholes have won. For now. Some residents started a crowdfund- ing campaign a few years ago. It raised about $50. “We got a quote for about $22,000, and that was just to (pave) up halfway, just to the worst of it. And nobody want- ed to put any money into it,” resident Dave Beane said. A couple years ago Fipps talked with a company that lays asphalt. A coat of asphalt was quoted at about $100,000. “We looked up grants, trying to see if there was something,” he said. “We’d heard some rumors of it, but never could find anything on it to get help.” According to Oregon law, money the state and county get from gas taxes can only be used to build and maintain roads. But the county can only maintain roads that are in a county system. So money meant exclusively for roads can’t be used to fix Kenwood Avenue. In the summer of 2020, Nicholas, the county public works director, ap- proached the Marion County Commis- sioners and asked if they wanted him to put together a list of solutions for non- county roads in unincorporated East Salem like Kenwood. Commissioners said yes. But after the wildfires in September 2020, the county’s attention went elsewhere. Nicholas was also in charge of public preparedness and emergency response. When Marion County Commissioner Kevin Cameron lived in an unincorpo- rated neighborhood in South Salem be- fore being elected, he and neighbors had problems with similar non-county roads. He said they formed a local improve- ment district. In that, Cameron and his Public Notices WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2022 | 3B neighbors agreed to pay for improve- ments to their street with increases in their property taxes. The street was paved and adopted into the county’s roads system. “Those LID’s are the way to go, and then the county still has a responsibility after that,” Cameron said. “It would have been in the cost of the house to be- gin with if the contractor built it, so those people got a discount at some point in time.” A simple repaving is likely not enough to save Kenwood. It might have to be dug up and the proper 12 inches of aggregate put down. Then it would be paved in accordance with Marion Coun- ty standards. But it probably needs curbs, sidewalks and storm drains, too. That isn’t going to be cheap. Nicholas said if a local improvement district is formed, the county can use road funds to pay up-front costs, and property owners pay that back as an as- sessment on their property taxes. “The end goal is it has to result in the road being adopted into the county road system,” Nicholas said. For a local improvement district to be formed, half of the property owners must agree on it. Some of the residents are fine with that. It would allow them to pay for the improvements to Kenwood Avenue over a period of 10 or years or so. “I know for a fact that we’ve got some low-income people on this street, and I’m concerned,” Christine Davis said. It could take a while, too. The Marion County Commissioners want to have a work session with home- owners along the street. In the meantime, Darrell Sharp’s 87- year-old father hasn’t been able to visit him in five years. Friends of many resi- dents won’t visit them. The residents want to see their friends and loved ones again. “I’m restoring a couple trucks and one of them I’m going to sell when I get done and buy a tractor so I can fix my street. That’s my plan,” Sharp said. “A tractor and a box drag, it would be gold- en.” Bill Poehler covers Marion County for the Statesman Journal. 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