Is Wild Iris Drive off Mantelli Drive a publically maintained street? If so, how can they restrict people from walking there?
Red Phone:
Thank you, good caller, for challenging Red Phone to exercise Red Phone’s investigative prowess on the Internet. After searching the Internet, here is what Red Phone found.
First of all, Red Phone can only surmise by the good caller’s keen sense of observation that Wild Iris Drive is blocked from pedestrian traffic. That would make sense, if a private community owns the street.
On the Internet, Red Phone found a property listing on Wild Iris Drive which provided the following information. The property is in the “Cambridge at Carriage Hills” community, which is a private community. The roads are private. From this key defining information, Red Phone deduces that the roads of this fine community are not open to public access, nor maintained by the City of Gilroy.
Just to make sure, Red Phone contacted South Valley Recology, which is contracted to clean the public streets of Gilroy. Red Phone spoke to General Manager Phil Couchee to get the low down on this street. Couchee spoke to one of his supervisors, who investigated whether or not Wild Iris is being cleaned by the Recology.
Couchee said, “It’s pretty confusing in that area because there is a mix of public and private roads.” In general, street cleaning comes with garbage pickup. However, Couchess said, “We do not clean private roads”. When told that Wild Iris Drive is a private road, Couchee said, “My supervisor visited that site and said that we do clean that street.”
And there you have it.
Red Phone sympathizes with you, good caller, for missing the opportunity to wander through this beautiful and majestic community as described on the Internet!
