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zoned lot or parcel), it staff policy, that the completion of the house - move from the trailer into BOOK .78 pA JE Dig was determined, consistent with trailer would be removed upon allowing. for the resident(s) to the new house. 2. Abandonment of the septic tank servicing the trailer had to be addressed by the Environmental Health Department. 3. The development parcel is not a platted lot and its creation date and status had to be reviewed to ensure compliance with the subdivision ordinance. 4. Because the parcel is over 1 acre in size, compliance with land clearing and tree protection requirements had to be ensured. 5. Because the site is on a Thoroughfare Plan Road (8th Street), right-of-way research by Public Works was required. Upon receiving the right-of-way information from Public Works (September 19th), the Planning department had to contact Mr. Jackson to explain and ensure compliance with the applicable right-of-way requirements. By September 21, 1989, the application and all of the previously cited issues had been reviewed and addressed, and all requirements for building permit issuance had been satisfied save one: the right-of-way requirement. The Planning department attempted for 2} days to contact the applicant by phone. Then, the applicant contacted the planning department in person on September 21st. The right-of-way situation and requirements were explained to him `and a copy of the ordinance requirements and a form -letter (letter of agreement to dedicate right-of-way prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy) were given out. Right Of Way Requirement, The second of the two major issues in attorney Jackson's letter concerns the county's right-of-way dedication requirement. As revised in January, 1988 through an ordinance amendment, (Section 25(f), see attachment #3), the county's right-of-way rule now requires that an applicant for any type of development activity, from a single-family building permit to a multi -lot subdivision, dedicate to the county without compensation his share of right-of-way needed to bring any abutting roadway up to minimum local road standards (60 feet). When the board adopted the present right-of-way policy in ordi- nance form, the reasoning was that 60 feet is the minimum right-of-way needed to serve single-family residences. To accom- modate a paved road, drainage, utilities, and roadside recovery area, the sixty feet is needed for a local road serving one homesite or multiple homesites. For that reason, the board determined that a sixty foot roadway should be the responsibility of the residents fronting the road, while any needed right-of-way over and above sixty feet would be the county's responsibility and only be acquired when the county could compensate the landowner. Consequently, a tiered system of right-of-way acquisition has developed. When a building permit or development project is submitted where adjacent roadways have deficient right-of-way, the .applicant must dedicate without compensation his share of e right-of-way.to bring the roadway up to the sixty foot local road `minimum. On thoroughfare plan ro'a'ds, requiring up to 120 feet of right-of-way, the county will purchase or provide impact fee ms.. i::credits for the amount of right-of-way over and above the 60 foot minimum local road standard. When no development activity occurs yet the county needs right-of-way for a road project (such as 13