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OCT 1� <br />BDOK 62' PAF 616 <br />ALTERNATIVES <br />There are various alternatives available to the County in <br />addressing the issue of road paving. These alternatives range <br />from not requiring new developments to pave any off-site <br />roadways to mandating that all new development regardless of <br />its size or intensity ensure paved access to the site. <br />Between these two extremes, there are various other alterna- <br />tives to accomplish the County's objectives. <br />Based upon the analysis of specific issues, it appears that <br />the County has several objectives regarding road paving. One <br />objective is to ensure that unpaved roads accessing sites <br />proposed for high intensity development projects be paved. <br />Another objective is to establish road paving responsibility. <br />A final objective is to ensure fairness.. and equity in road <br />paving requirements. Of the available alternatives, the best <br />will be the one which most efficiently meets those objectives. <br />Identification of road paving alternatives involves consid- <br />eration of several components, each having various choices. <br />These major components or categories of any County road paving <br />policy are as follows: the paving required, the responsibility <br />for paving, and the financing/ timing of the paving. Within <br />each of these categories, there are various choices which can <br />be combined in various ways to produce a number of different <br />road paving policy alternatives. <br />° Required Paving <br />The first and probably most important component of a road <br />paving policy is the delineation of what paving or how much <br />paving is necessary. With respect to this component of the <br />road paving policy, several alternatives exist. These range <br />from no paving to the paving of all access and abutting <br />roadways. <br />-No Paving <br />This alternative is the default alternative. It would <br />establish a policy of not requiring developers to pave <br />any offsite roadways on any type of project. If this <br />alternative were accepted, the other components of the <br />County's road paving policy (responsibility for paving <br />and the financing/timing of paving) would not be issues. <br />Selection of this alternative, however, would not achieve <br />the County's objectives of improving unpaved roadways. <br />-Paved Access for Some Developments <br />Another alternative is requiring paved access for some <br />developments, particularly those which are high traffic <br />generators or attracters and those which are not high <br />intensity developments but are located only a short <br />distance from a paved road. Basically, this is the road <br />paving policy currently.pursued by the County. It does <br />serve to further the County's objective of improving <br />unpaved roads, although by exempting some developments <br />from providing paved access as a condition of project <br />approval this alternative does not completely meet the <br />paving objective. When combined with a requirement for a <br />commitment to participate in future paving, however, this <br />alternative would meet the paving objective. <br />30 <br />� � r <br />