It is narrow, only 20 feet. I believe that in the YouTube video of the Council Meeting on October 5, 2025, it was said there would not even be a yellow stripe down the center.
This is an arterial used by large RVs (busses, even) and trailers to and from the State Park. It will become much busier. It’s already narrower than it should be (which is 22 feet according to the extensive planning the State ODOT gave us), and the $400,000 Manzanita paid to a superior national engineering firm. That firm was fired, their excellent plan discarded. (It had a west retaining wall to designed to curtail long-term road failure on the west side). A contractor who bid unsuccessfully on that $400,000 design now has a legal protest against the City.
The new design has no western retaining wall, only paying for a City-built $400,000 cost Classic Cottages wall. The Cottages neighborhood will then own and keep up the wall built by the City.
When it comes to a “Value vs. Cost” equation, the City, for a pittance of difference between a higher value, better lasting road and a slightly cheaper narrow road, has chosen the latter. Another classic decision.