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Jefferson County adopts private-road ordinance setting construction and maintenance standards
Summary
The county replaced a three-house private-road limit with a new ordinance tied to Appendix D of the 2018 fire code: minimum easement, travel-width and structural requirements, turnaround specifications and mandatory road-owner maintenance agreements; county will not routinely plow private roads except in emergencies.
County staff described a new private-road ordinance that replaces the prior three-house limit with technical construction and maintenance standards derived from Appendix D of the 2018 fire code. Unidentified Speaker 2 said the new rule standardizes private-road specifications and requires property owners to form a road-owner maintenance agreement.
Key technical details cited in the meeting: roads must lie in a 60-foot easement; normal travel width must be 20 feet (26-foot travel width required when a private road exceeds 500 feet);…
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