Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Chapter 12.01 COUNTY ROADS AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS
12.01.030 Design standards.
A. Roadway plans and profile shall be prepared in ink on approved mylar
federal-aid sheets with a standard four and one-fourth inches by seven inches
Skamania County title block, and shall be signed and sealed by a Washington
registered professional engineer. Minimum data on the face of the plan shall in
all cases be sufficient to allow a resurvey of the improvement in the future.
Design data on all natural factors, such as terrain, rainfall and drainage,
shall be provided in support of the proposal.
B. Storm drainage will be
designed to protect the roadway against surface and subsurface water, conveying
water across, along and away efficiently without damage to roadway or adjacent
property.
1. All facilities shall be designed to accommodate, at a minimum,
the flow from a twenty-year flood. No cross-roadway culvert shall be less than
eighteen inches in diameter.
2. Roadway ditches shall be a minimum of two
feet in depth, with side slopes of two to one or flatter.
C. Right-of-way
width shall be sixty feet minimum, but in no case less than that required to
include all features of the improvement that will require continued county
maintenance attention. The entire right-of-way shall be cleared at the time of
the construction.
D. Basic roadway design standards are as set out in Table
12.01.030. (Ord. 1981-05 (part))
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