Transportation System Plan 2018-2038

Table 3-1 Continued Jackson County Roads w ithin the City of Medford Street From To Length Stardust W ay Highcrest Dr ive Cloudcrest Drive 1850’ Stew art Avenue 370’ W . of Dixie Lane 181’ E. of T homas Road 2515’ Sycamore W ay Eucaly ptus Drive Cul-de-Sac 700’ Table Rock Road Merriman Road 300’ N. of Morningside 2700’ Yale Drive Harvard Place Stanford Avenue 800’ West Main Street Lewis Avenue 298’ W . of Lew is Avenue 298’ Source: City of Medford, 2002 City Maintained Roads The City of Medford m aintains a com plex network of streets including several one-way streets. The street cross-sections range from two to five lanes with posted speeds of 25-45 m iles per hour. There are multiple public at-grade railroad crossings in Medfor d, with only one grade-separated crossing (located on West McAndrews Road). Several private railroa d crossings also exist, m ostly serving industrial properties. Portions of Highway 99 through the City are also City-maintained. The older central portion of Medford, generally between McAndrews Road and Stewart Avenue including downtown also contains numerous public alley s. Privately Maintained Roads Several streets in Medford are privately maintained. Many of these streets are associated with manufactured home parks and other planned developm ents. Medford also contains num erous private “minimum access streets” that are short cul-de-sacs serving up to three dwellings and are generally utilized for infill developm ent. The private roads in the city are classified as local or residential roads and are not included in the street sy stem inventory in Appendix A that focuses on arterials and collectors. Existing Street Functional Classification and Standards Functional classification provides a sy stem atic basis for determ ining future right-of-way and improvem ent needs, and can also be used to provide general guidance to appropria te or desired vehicular street design characteristics. A street’ s functional classification is based on the relative priority of traffic mobility and access functions that are served by the street. At one end of the spectrum of mobility and access are freeway s, which em phasize m oving high volum es of traffic, allowing only highly controlled access points. At the other end of the spectrum are residential cul-de-sac streets, which provide access only to parcels with direct frontage and allow no through traffic These two roadway types form the ends of a spectru m relating access and traffic flow. Between the ends of this spectrum are local streets, collectors and arterials, each with an increasingly greater em phasis on mobility . Classifications can be further stratified into m ajor and m inor arterials and collectors. Some jurisdictions use other term s in their functional classification sy stem , such as neighborhood street, throughway , and boulevards. The City of Medford uses the Street Functional Classi fication sy stem to reserve future rights-of-way , determ ine street design, and develop future street improvem ent projects. As described in Chapter 10 Article IV of the City of Medford Land Development Code (LDC), this sy stem is com prised of nine individual classifications including: arterial, coll ector, com mercial, industrial, frontage, standard residential, m inor residential, lane, and m inimum access. The city has been using narrowed residential street cross-sections (classified as m inor residential str eets and residential lanes) for m ore than 15 y ears. Planter strips have been required on arterial, collect or, com mercial, industrial, standard residential and minor residential streets since 1994. Traffic calm ing at specific locations in residential areas has been Medford Transportatio n System Plan 3-4 Existing Conditions