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ORDINANCE NO. 3334 - CREATE LONGVIEW TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT
COUNCIL INITIATIVE ADDRESSED:
Improve streets and roads
CITY ATTORNEY REVIEW: Required
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Following their 2016 retreat, the City Council appointed a Streets and Roads Initiative Committee consisting of Councilmembers Mike Wallin, Chet Makinster, and Steve Moon. The Committee began meeting to review information regarding pavement condition, current street maintenance and repair funding and costs, and discuss potential methods to enhance street maintenance.
The Committee reviewed and discussed information pertaining to street maintenance and presented a report to the full council at a workshop on April 28, 2016, and recommended the council consider forming a Transportation Benefit District (TBD) to fund street maintenance, preservation and improvement projects in the City.
On August 25, 2016, the City Council conducted a public hearing to receive public comment regarding forming a TBD and considered a draft TBD formation ordinance. Nobody spoke in opposition to forming a Transportation Benefit District, and the City Council directed staff to prepare a final ordinance and TBD improvements plan for consideration.
On November 21, 2016, the Streets and Roads Initiative Committee met to review a draft TBD improvements plan. The Committee requested revisions to improvements plan and requested staff to present the TBD formation ordinance to the City Council before the end of this year.
Attached for your review is a final draft ordinance and TBD improvements plan, along with a staff report providing information about TBD formation.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Motion to adopt Ordinance No. 3334.
STAFF CONTACT:
Craig Bozarth, City Engineer
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