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Planning commission recommends Castlewood streets be dedicated to the city, subject to stormwater agreement details
Summary
After months of edits and negotiation with the homeowners association, the commission voted to recommend that City Council accept dedication of internal streets in the Castlewood subdivision, contingent on final signatures and resolution of remaining legal questions in the stormwater management agreement.
The Reading Planning Commission on Feb. 25 voted to recommend that City Council accept dedication of internal streets in the Castlewood subdivision, following resolution of stormwater management agreement language and signature questions.
Public Works and planning staff said the survey and revised plan of record for the subdivision have been corrected to staff’s satisfaction. The primary remaining issue was the stormwater management agreement: staff and the developer’s attorney worked with the homeowners association (HOA) to prepare an agreement that allocates maintenance responsibility and provides for future enforcement. Public Works staff noted the city’s MS4 permit requires the city to manage stormwater for public roads and that the HOA’s agreement had to be structured so the long‑term maintenance obligations are clear.
Phil Urbina, speaking for the HOA, said the association is prepared to sign the agreement and to undertake maintenance obligations that may be recorded against individual properties; he said the HOA would step in and charge owners if individual homeowners fail to maintain required features. Public Works staff and municipal attorneys discussed who should sign the recorded documents and whether a city resolution amending or removing a recorded note on the original plan might be a simpler procedural route than a revised plan of record. Staff said there were minor survey corrections and a road name change that warranted the revised plan of record in any event.
The commission moved and unanimously approved a recommendation to City Council to dedicate the internal streets within the Castlewood subdivision (identified in discussion as Kings Way and Queens Court) to the City of Reading, subject to the revised plan of record and recording of the stormwater agreement and required signatures. Commissioners and staff asked the HOA and the city solicitor to coordinate with Attorney Steve Price to finalize signature and ordinance language so the council packet can be prepared.
Votes at a glance - Recommendation to City Council to dedicate Castlewood internal streets (Kings Way and Queens Court): outcome: recommend dedication (unanimous).
