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JEFFERSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE Craig Ward, Director
MEMORANDUM
TO: Jefferson County Department of Public Works
FROM: Michelle Wood, Permit Technician Specialist-W
DATE: November 24 , 1992
SUBJECT: Road Vacation: Portion of Old Hadlock Road within the
Northeast Quarter of Section 11, Township 29 North, Range
1 West, WM.
The Jefferson County Planning and Building Department has the
following comments on the Old Hadlock Road vacation request:
1. The area of the proposed vacation is designated as Commercial
by the Tri-Area Community Development Plan.
2 . The Jefferson County Emergency Zoning Ordinance Map designates
the properties to the north, east, south, and west as general
commercial.
3 . The request complies with the Jefferson County Comprehensive
Plan and the Tri-Area Community Development Plan.
4 . The following policies apply to the request. They are
Commercial Development Policy 2 and Transportation Policies
2 and 13 . Each of these policies are discussed below.
a) Commercial Development 2 states " . . . Commercial
enterprises should be arranged and developed on blocks
of land so that signs, accesses, and traffic congestion
can be kept to a minimum; so that security can be
provided; and so that adjacent property values can be
maintained or enhanced. "
The vacation of this portion of Old Hadlock Road would result
in the consolidation of this parcel which is currently
separated by the right-of-way, into one block which could
better facilitate future commercial development.
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b) Transportation Development Policy 2 states
"Transportation and circulation facilities should be
located, designed and installed to meet reasonable
foreseeable future needs . "
This property will eventually be developed as commercial . The
circulation and transportation requirements of commercial
activity at this site could be better served with fewer
potential access points onto the existing streets.
c) Transportation Development Policy 13 states, in part (i)
. . . prior to a vacation decision, an examination should
be made of its probable effect on overall area
circulation in the neighborhood. . . " ; (ii) "The
effectiveness of fire, medical, law enforcement, or other
emergency services should not be impaired. . . " ; (iii)
"roads should not be vacated when such routes can
effectively be used for utility corridors" ; (iv) "should
not be vacated when such routes can effectively be used
for trials or pathways" ; and (v) "no county road or part
thereof should be vacated which abuts on a body of salt
or freshwater unless. . . "
Access to the adjoining parcels will not be altered because
the property which could be affected by the vacation also has
frontage on a east/west county road. The Jefferson County
Park, Recreation and Open Space Plan designated the major
county road to the east of the property as a bike route. The
requested road right-of-way vacation area is west of the
designated bike route. The requested road vacation is not a
route which provides access to any body of water.
PLANNING STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Based on the above findings and conclusions staff recommends
approval of this requested vacation.