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Urban Road Maintenance District (URMD)


              URMD is a county service district formed by urban unin-    y Funds pedestrian and biking improvement
              corporated voters in 1987. URMD:                      projects on roads within the district
                 y Serves as the funding mechanism for maintenance      y Provides traffic-calming activities on local streets
               of public neighborhood streets in urban areas        and neighborhood routes in the district through
               outside of cities                                     the Neighborhood Streets Program (NSP)





                                          Neighborhood Streets Program                     FY 2016–17  FY 2017–18
                                                                                                                                  Washington County Department of
                                          Neighborhood safety campaigns                         71            50                  Land Use & Transportation                                             Get Involved!
                                          Neighborhood meetings held                             4            9
                                          Lawn signs distributed                                36            56                                       main 503-846-4530                                Serve on a committee
                                          Radar seed reader board loan-outs to residents         4            2                   office of the director           engineering and                      Volunteer community  committees
                                          Permanent speed display signs posted                  6             4                    503-846-6106                    construction services                help guide our work. Some are per-
                                          Traffic-calming projects complete                      4            4                    lutdir@co.washington.or.us      Capital Project Management           manent, like the Planning Commis-
                                                                                                                                                                     503-846-7800                       sion, the Rural Roads Operations
                                                                                                                                  Communications                     lutproj@co.washington.or.us
                                                                                                                                   503-846-4963                                                         and Maintenance Advisory Com-
                                                                                                                                   lutcomm@co.washington.or.us     Development Review                   mittee and the Urban Road Main-
              pedestrian and biking improVement projeCts funded in fy 2017–18:                                                                                       503-846-7800                       tenance District Advisory Commit-
                                                                                                                                  Administrative Services
                 y Bull Mountain Road, sidewalk on the north side,      y Alexander Street, sidewalk on north side, from           503-846-6128                      lutproj@co.washington.or.us        tee. Others are temporary, formed
               from Grandview Lane to Roshak Road; east side        209th Avenue to 20485 SW Alexander Street                      lutadmin@co.washington.or.us    Traffic Engineering
               from Roashak Road to Nemarnik Drive                                                                                                                                                      to provide guidance on a particu-
                                                                      y Johnson Street, sidewalk on south side,                   Assurances/Street Lighting/        503-846-7950                       lar project such as the Transporta-
                 y 143rd Avenue, sidewalk on east side, from Melody    from Jasmine Place to 178th Avenue                         Public Improvement Permits         luttraffic@co.washington.or.us     tion System Plan Update or a road
               Lane to 2000 NW 143rd Avenue
                                                                      y Johnson Street, sidewalk on north side,                    503-846-3843                    County Surveyor’s Office             improvement project. To learn more,
                 y 175th Avenue, sidewalk on east side              from 214th Avenue to 21415 Johnson Street                      lutassurances@                    503-846-8723                       call 503-846-6106 or email lutdir@
               from Kinnaman Road to Chris Street                                                                                  co.washington.or.us               lutsurvey@co.washington.or.us
                                                                      y Taylors Ferry Road, sidewalk on north side,                                                                                     co.washington.or.us.
                 y 214th Avenue, sidewalk on east side, from        from 78th Avenue to Washington Drive                          planning and                     operations and
               Tualatin Valley Highway to Johnson Street                                                                          development services             maintenance                          Adopt-A-Road and
                                                                      y Thompson Road, sidewalk on south side,                    Long Range Planning              Road Maintenance                     Adopt-A-Landscape
                                                                    from Knollview Drive to 114th Avenue                           503-846-3519                      503-846-7623 (846-ROAD)            Consider adopting a road to pick up
                                                                                                                                   lutplan@co.washington.or.us       lutops@co.washington.or.us
                                                                                                                                                                                                        litter or to maintain roadway land-
                                                                                                                                  Current Planning Services        Adopt-A-Road                         scaping. Adopt-A-Road is LUT’s larg-
                                                                                                                                   503-846-8761                      503-846-7623                       est volunteer program. Call Adopt-
                                          URMD expenditures                                FY 2016–17  FY 2017–18                  lutdev@co.washington.or.us
                                                                                                                                                                   road work info                       A-Road  at  503-846-7623  or  visit
                                                                                                                                  Building Services                  www.wc-roads.com                   https://www.co.washington.or.us/
                                          Total expenditures                                  $4.4 M         $4 M                  503-846-3470                      www.twitter.com/washcoroads        LUT/Divisions/Operations/Programs/
                                          Contract safety improvement                          67%           67%                   lutbldg@co.washington.or.us                                          adopt-a-road.
                                          Contract surface treatments                          13%           18%
                                                                                                                                  Code Compliance
                                          Contract prep and administration                      9%            4%                   503-846-4875                                                         Stay up-to-date
                                          Maintenance and service requests                      5%            5%                   pdscodecompliance@                                                   Sign up for LUT publications
                                          Neighborhood Streets Program                          3%            3%                   co.washington.or.us                                                  and updates. Visit http://washtech.
                                          CWS drainage                                          3%            3%                                                                                        co.washington.or.us/subscriptions.



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