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Commissioners consider returning private-road oversight to Building and Planning after staff concerns
Summary
County staff described a history of private-road regulation and recommended moving oversight from Public Works back to Building and Planning; commissioners agreed to study the change and hold stakeholder workshops.
Cowlitz County commissioners heard a staff presentation on private-road regulation and discussed returning oversight to Building and Planning after years under Public Works.
Susan (last name not specified in the transcript), who spoke to the commissioners about the issue, traced the history: a county ordinance in the mid-1990s regulated private roads under Building and Planning until 2019, when concerns about litigation prompted county legal advice and a memo that moved authority to Public Works. "In the mid '19 nineties, the…
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