Public Works

All landscaping maintenance (including street trees), are the responsibility of the homeowner.

Street trees are to be trimmed to a height of 10' above the top of the curb and 8' above the sidewalk. Trees that are not trimmed can impede emergency vehicles, school buses, and maintenance equipment

The installation of a crosswalk or stop sign would require a traffic/pedestrian study.

Contact: tfisher@ci.sandy.or.us for questions regarding traffic calming or pedestrian safety.

Most curb and sidewalk improvements take place when a property is going through a permitted improvement at the home. If the value of the home is forecasted to increase by a set percentage, then frontage improvements are required (at the homeowners cost). There are situations where council gives direction on right-of-way enhancements for desired streets. These improvements are made to attract development.

The city uses a pavement management program that is calibrated every few years and assesses a value to every roadway.

Sandy strives to keep the average across all roadways above a value of 80. Every budget cycle, money is allocated to re-pave or re-surface a select number of streets to help maintain our roadway management average.

Ryan Wood ~ Rwood@ci.sandy.or.us

The water may drain into a nearby waterway or a storm detention pond.

It could be a sewer manhole or a storm manhole. Both systems are not always located in the road. Sewer and storm systems work off gravity, so via a utility easement. 

A manhole may be in your back yard due to the engineering and design to achieve gravity flow to the next manhole.

Stormwater detention in the designed control of stormwater runoff. Detention facilities regulate the discharge rate of water and in some cases allow for permeation or evaporation.

Yes, the city removes volunteer trees, knocks down invasive species, and trims the grasses in most stormwater detention ponds. 

Clackamas County and D.E.Q. maintain waterways.