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Cowlitz County staff urge returning private-road review to building and planning; commissioners call for more study
Summary
Cowlitz County staff raised the issue of jurisdiction over private roads at Tuesday’s commissioners meeting, recommending that oversight be returned to the Building and Planning department and that the memo transferring review authority to Public Works in 2019 be rescinded.
Cowlitz County staff raised the issue of jurisdiction over private roads at Tuesday’s commissioners meeting, recommending that oversight be returned to the Building and Planning department and that the memo transferring review authority to Public Works in 2019 be rescinded.
A county staff member summarized the history: the county adopted private-road regulations in the mid-1990s, and Building and Planning administered the rules until 2019, when concerns about litigation in a different county prompted the transfer of review to Public Works by memo. “We never had a problem in Cowlitz County, but another county…had an issue,” the staff member…
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