The Roads Committee is responsible for maintenance of our private roads. The cul-de-sacs along which our houses are located are owned and maintained by the HOA. Our main feeder streets, Evans Mountain Drive and Ventana Canyon Drive, are owned by Pima County. The HOA is not responsible for these streets but will notify the county of maintenance and safety requirements and monitor responses.
Committee Report: Safe Streets Proposal (October 2025)
At the October 14, 2025 meeting, the FCHOA Board will consider this action item:
“Approve a six-month Safe Streets planning process in support of a Safety Action Plan for Foothills Clusters Homeowners Association.”
BACKGROUND: The Roads Committee and the Foothills Clusters Homeowners Association have heard community concerns about safety on and along our streets. We propose a six-month process, from November 2025 to April 2026, to assess these concerns and develop both short-term actions and long-term strategies to maintain safe streets in our community.
To begin this process, we ask you to join with us and Pima County to complete a Safety Action Plan survey — part of a larger Safe Streets initiative launched this month by the county.
This article, by the directors of Pima County Health and Transportation departments, introduces the Safe Streets project:
“Local Opinion: Help us Make Pima County Streets Safer.” Theresa Cullen, Kathryn Skinner. (Arizona Daily Star, Oct. 5, 2025). tucson.com/opinion/column/article_78fb0c45-2564-4e9e-836c-a655e0c99fa7.html. (Subscription may be required.)
We suggest you visit the county’s Safety Action Plan page and complete the Safe Streets / Safety Action Plan Survey at www.pima.gov/safestreets. We will complete the survey and share updates at the November 2025 Annual Meeting, where we’ll also discuss current status and future steps for safe streets, including a proposed six-month process that seeks to:
- Collect concerns and experiences to define the hazards and risks, including identification of specific locations where safety concerns are highest. (To expand our ongoing collaboration with Pima County, we suggest you share your specific concerns via the Pima County SAP Public Input Reporter: burgessniple.m…0c74449444e19.)
- Develop a range of solutions based in education, engineering and enforcement strategies.
- Define responsibilities for managing potential Safe Street strategies, which may include a range of collaborative options with residents, the HOA and Pima County.
- Explore funding options.
- Initiate selected actions from the Safety Action Plan.
Street Seal-Coat Project (completed summer 2025)
The FCHOA Street Seal-Coat project was proposed and planned in spring of 2025 and completed in summer 2025. Background on this project can be found at the Project page and in supporting documents:
Private Road Replacement Project (completed 2022)
The 35 sections of private roads owned by the Homeowners Association (the cul-de-sacs along which the homes are situated) are over forty years old and were not constructed to modern paving standards. Prior to the Road Replacement Project, the roads were in either “poor” or “failed” condition. Simple re-coating or chip sealing would not fix the roads and would quickly fail.
To read the committee reports and engineering documents regarding the HOA re-pavement, see the Private Road Maintenance Project background reports on the planning process, beginning in 2016. The financing process and road-surface replacement were approved by a vote of the HOA members and were completed in 2022-2023.
County Road Maintenance
The two main thoroughfares to the HOA streets — Evans Mountain Drive and Ventana Canyon Drive to the turn-around — are owned and maintained by Pima County. The HOA has no direct control over the maintenance of these streets. However, the Roads and Landscape Committees regularly inspect these roads and right-of-ways and report serious deficiencies to the county, such as potholes, crumbling of the pavement edges, overgrown vegetation, and traffic safety concerns.
In 2016, neighbors organized a petition to have the county roads repaired. As part of a county-wide initiative, Pima County conducted Pavement Preservation (re-paving) on Evans Mountain Drive and the county section of Ventana Canyon Drive from 2022-2023.
In 2024, concerns about visibility resulted in landscape maintenance by the county along the county right-of-way.
Residents are encouraged to report county street issues via the Pima County See-Click-Fix form and to notify the Roads Committee of questions or concerns at Contact@FoothillsClusters.com.
Roads Committee (2025)
- Co-Chairs: Angie Sellers, Ron Steffens
- Members: John Bonner, Angie Sellers, Ron Steffens