Information

Type: Legal Notice

Department: PW - Public Works

Directors' Update: March 10, 2021

Business Meeting: March 23, 2021

Summary:

The property owners abutting the portion of the Branch of E. J. Lentz Road North No.405A have requested that the County vacate the right of way. RCW 36.87 allows for the vacation of a county road that is found useless to the needs of the County pending a Report of the County Road Engineer. Resolution 20-444, passed by the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) December 7, 2020, directed the County Road Engineer to examine a portion of the Branch of E. J. Lentz Road North No.405A right of way, and report his opinion to the BOCC. On February 25, 2021 the Engineer's Report on the matter of the proposed vacation of a portion of the Branch of E. J. Lentz Road North No.405A, was filed with the BOCC. The report and all related materials having been reviewed by the BOCC and found appropriate for further proceedings. This resolution sets April 20, 2021, at or after the hour of 2:00 p.m., in the BOCC Hearing Room on the 2nd floor of the Historic Courthouse in Chehalis, Washington, as the time and place for the hearing on the County Engineer's Report. The resolution also calls for the Clerk of the Board to proceed with all the necessary notifications, posting and publication.

Publications: The Chronicle: March 25 & April 1, 2020

Cover Letter To:

Additional Copies To: Martin Roy, Matt Hinderlie, Tim Fife

Resolution

WHEREAS, RCW 36.87 allows for the vacation of a county road that is found useless to the needs of the County pending a Report of the County Road Engineer; and

WHEREAS, Resolution 20-444, passed by the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on December 7, 2020, directed the County Road Engineer to examine a portion of the Branch of E. J. Lentz Road North No. 405A right of way and to report his findings to the BOCC; and

WHEREAS, as required by RCW 36.87, February 25, 2021, the report of the County Road Engineer on the matter of the proposed vacation of the following described portion of the Branch of E. J. Lentz Road North No.405A right of way, was filed in the office of the BOCC, to wit:

All that portion of the Branch of E. J. Lentz Road North No. 405A and associated right of ways maintained by travel being located in the  North Half of the Southwest Quarter ( N1/2 SW1/4) of Section 5, Township 12 North, Range 2 West, W.M.

Except the South 110 feet of the said North Half to be retained for turnaround use.; and

WHEREAS, the report and all related materials having been reviewed by the BOCC and found appropriate for further proceedings.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that April 20, 2021, at or after the hour of 2:00 p.m. in the Commissioners' Hearing Room on the 2nd floor of the Historic Courthouse in Chehalis, Washington, has been fixed as the time and place for the hearing on the County Road Engineer's Report, when and where all persons may appear and be heard upon report and upon the matter of the vacation of that road described above. Interested parties are encouraged to check the Commissioners’ hearing schedule online at https://lewiscountywa.gov/offices/commissioners/agendas-calendar/ as the hearing date approaches for updated details; and

NOW THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the Board is hereby instructed to proceed with all that necessary notifications, posting and publication.

DONE IN OPEN SESSION this 23rd day of March, 2021.