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Clerk 4/4/2007
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AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the 2007 update to the King County Road Design and Construction Standards as the standards for road design and construction in King County; amending Ordinance 11187, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 14.42.010, Ordinance 8041, Section 3, and K.C.C. 14.42.020, Ordinance 8041, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 14.42.030, Ordinance 8041, Section 5, and K.C.C. 14.42.040, Ordinance 8041, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 14.42.050, and Ordinance 8041, Section 7, and K.C.C. 14.42.060 and Ordinance 8041, Section 8, as amended, and K.C.C. 14.42.070, and adding new sections to K.C.C. chapter 14.42 and decodifying K.C.C. 14.42.062, K.C.C. 14.42.080 and K.C.C. 14.42.090.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
NEW SECTION. SECTION 1. There is hereby added to K.C.C chapter 14.42 a new section to read as follows:
A. Chapter 36.75 RCW authorizes the county to perform all acts necessary and proper for the administration of the county roads. County roads shall be established, laid out, constructed, altered, repaired, improved and maintained by the legislative authority of the county or by private individuals or corporations who are allowed to perform such work under an agreement with the county legislative authority. The work and improvements shall be done in accordance with adopted county standards under the supervision and direction of the county road engineer.
B. The purpose of the King County Road Design and Construction Standards ("the standards") is to set forth specific, consistent and acceptable road design and construction elements for developers and other private parties constructing or modifying road or right-of-way facilities that require county licenses or permits and to establish uniform criteria to guide the county's own design and construction of new county roads or reconstruction of existing roads. The standards support the county's goals for achieving affordable ho...

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