HUN Project Metrics

Hunnell Project Metrics 

I. Number of Households, Lots and Individuals Represented by the HUNS

a. Total Lot Parcels (not Including Starwood) is 235. (Starwood would add an additional 178). Number of Direct Roads serviced by Hunnell 12 (see section IV. below)

b. Number of HUN individual E-mail addresses is 135. (Less 19 of these presently have multiple e-mails for the same address) 135-19=116 is Number of parcels represented of total 116/235=49% 

c. Number of lots represented by 2 people and only one e-mail address is 46. 

d. Estimated number of People presented by HUNS is 135+46=181. This represents of total (assuming 2 voters per lot) 181/470=39% of all voters on these 11 roads 

II. Traffic and ADT based on Visual Counting

a. ADT is approximately 100 per day based on 6 hours of random test over 12 days. 

III. Survey

a. The Survey finished on August 18th. Delivered to 115 members of which 70% open the delivery. We had 64 responses  

Question Summary

1. Retain Character of Neighborhood - 98 % Agree

2. Favor Existing Plan from County - 50% disagree

3. Paving Size same as OBRH-79 % disagree

4. Speed design same as OBRH- 90% disagree

5. Recognize our Input- 95% agree

 6. Approve our 9 items - 81% agree

 7. Hire Attorney - 82% agree

IV. Population and Square miles addressed by Hunnell Improvements 

a. Assumptions Population

1. Hunnell Road Area Direct Service approximately 3.5 to 5 square miles

2. The roads that are serviced by Hunnell include:

a. Hunnell (including 50 in Mobile home Park), Sun Beam, Low Lane, Pohaku, Rodgers Road, Quail Haven, Tanglewood, Crosswinds, Bachelor Way, Jefferson, Harris Way, Bowery Lane and Starwood (178)

b. According to Dial there are approximately 412 individual parcels at these addresses.

c. Percentage of Total Population of County Directly Serviced by Hunnell =.2% (.0024)

b. Assumptions Area Serviced

1. Bend City Sq Miles is 33.32

2. Deschutes County Square Miles is 3,055.

3. Average Deschutes Count Road Annual Department Budget of $19 Million

4. Average per square Mile Spend in County = $6,219 Per mile

5. Average Amount of Spend Projected on Hunnell Road Area per mile = $900,000/mile

6. Factor 144 times greater

c. Assumptions on Net Area Serviced

1. Primary Area around Bend Oregon assume 10-mile radius= 314 square miles (note it is 8.2 miles from the Intersection of Hunnell at Tumalo road to the center of Bend)

2. Primary Area Around Bend Oregon assume 8-mile radius is 213.5 square miles

3. Net County Area Serviced taking out city (10-mile radius) is = (314-33.32) =280.68 square miles

4. Net County Area Service taking out city (8-mile radius is = (213.5-33.32) = 180.2 square miles

5. Area addressed by Hunnel is 2.7% of area in Non-city around Bend for an 8-mile radius)

6. Area addressed by Hunnell is 1.7% of area of Non-city are around Bend for 10-mile radius

We will be measuring responses to a new survey being sent to members after the November 18th meeting

The Deschutes County Road Department notified property owners on February 26, 2020 that they were preparing to "improve" Hunnell Road. The project will include constructing and widening Hunnell Road from Loco Road to Tumalo Road. They are currently in the design stage of the project and it is to begin the spring of 2022. They will hold an open house in the fall of 2020 to provide details of the project. According to public records, the estimate for this project and its overall ranking was done in 2012 and was split into two separate projects. Both were ranked high in priority. The first project involves a new road from Loco Road to Rodgers Road. The second was widening and paving from Rodgers Road to Tumalo Road.  It is worth noting that the RFP sent to construction companies in August 2019 specifies a 34 ft wide road with additional 2 ft shoulders. In conversation with Deschutes County Road Department we learned that it is to be engineered for a 55 mph speed limit.  (This is not necessarily what the posted speed limit will be.) The original estimated costs for these two projects are $880,000 and $2,650,000 respectively. 

The goal of this project as stated in the February letter is to "Upgrade the roadway to meet Deschutes County collector road standards and improve safety, carrying the road department's mission to maintain the quality and improve the experience for all users of the Deschutes County transportation system".   

This project seems to be a part of a series of activities we believe are at work.

They include City projects related to the New Urban Growth Boundary, support for the development of Juniper Ridge and various projects to promote growth of Bend in the North.

ODOT has a project called "US Bend North 97 Corridor" which calls for significant changes to Cooley, Robal and the alignment of Highway 97 with the By Pass though Bend..

A development called Cascade Village North is in the works which will include a new Costco and a new Fred Meyer at the corner of Cooley and Hwy 20.

Deschutes county has announced  at least two new roundabouts on Old Bend Redmond at Highway 20  and also one on Old Bend Redmond at Tumalo road (Deschutes Market),

On the page below are several links that explain many of these projects and we invite you dive in and see for your self what we have discovered. 

It is difficult to determine how Hunnell fits in and what are the real metrics driving this project. Is it a road to nowhere? A road to create more mess at Cooley? A second Old Bend Redmond Highway? A rarely used emergency third way to go North or South to Redmond? A way to service 10 driveway exits from homes on highway 97? What ever is driving this project has not been discussed with the HUNS.. BUT in any case we do not want or need a 55 mile per hour infrastructure built in our neighborhood whose primary objective is: 'improve the user experience of the transportation system in the county'

At the present time our objectives are to learn more about the high level requirement details and design of the Hunnell project and disclose this information to our members quickly using this website. We are not currently opposed to improvements on Hunnell as long as they support our primary goal noted by Michel Bayard, the HUNS president, 'any road project should  maintain and not degrade the special quality of life in our neighborhood'. 

We intend to make use of automated surveys to understand what our members reactions are to this project and measure its appropriateness for the neighborhood.  

Based on our current research and conversations with the Road Department we are concerned about the size and scale of this project. We are particularly concerned about speed and road and traffic sizing assumptions anticipated in the design of the project. 

Several members of the group have prepared a list of questions to be sent to the county road and planning departments and we are requesting a meeting to be held very soon.

An Attorney has been contacted and has agreed to represent the HUNS

Here are some of the important links you should review

1. Deschutes County

County Transportation System Plan(TSP) adopted in 2012 see pages #144 and #158 (Only places in the 268 pages Hunnell is mentioned). This 7 sentence portion is the only specific justification we found referencing Hunnell. Also there is a list of public meetings pages 133-137. There is no mention of a HUNS meeting

 https://www.deschutes.org/sites/default/files/fileattachments/community_development/page/738/transportation_plan_table_of_contents.pdf

Request of Proposal Engineering Consulting Services Hunnell Road. Submittal indicating the width of the road as 34 feet.   www.deschutes.org › road › page › rfp_-_hunnell_rd

2. Information on the North 97 realignment

    Grant application for Completing the US 97 Bend North Corridor Project INFRA. https://www.oregon.gov/odot/Projects/Project%20Documents/Final_US97BendNorthCorridorINFRA.pdf

US 97 North Corridor Final EIS. Please see the map on page ES9 that show the 10 closures and extensions to other streets in our area that is part of of this project.   

www.bendoregon.gov › home › showdocument

A recent Bend Bulletin article about the US 97 North Corridor project.

https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/bend-parkway-project-lurches-forward/article_d9a4d2e1-de31-5ab4-8179-7258b1062f7b.html

3. Cascade village Project PZ 20-0080 Costco and Fred Meyer new development 

https://eplans.ci.bend.or.us/ProjectDox/Frame.aspx?ProjectID=37610

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