Permanent Road Divisions

In 2003, the Board of Supervisors adopted a policy on the acceptance of roads into the County Maintained Road System. In general, this policy requires that new roads or extensions of existing roads have a way to fund future road maintenance. A road can be brought into the County maintained system by forming a new sub-zone or annexing into an existing sub zone of a Permanent Road Division (PRD) to fund road maintenance.  The PRD works like an assessment district where assessments to fund major road maintenance projects (such as slurry seals and asphalt overlays) are collected on the tax bill of properties included within the boundary of the PRD sub-zone.  Each year the assessments are adjusted based upon a consumer price index (CPI).

The criteria to make a Permanent Road Division is as follows:

1) 100% of the underlying landowners must be willing to grant public road easements to the County. However, in some rare instances, a public right of way may exist and therefore there is no need to grant pubic road easements;

2) the road must be fully improved to County standards; and

3) 2/3 of the properties that use the road must vote YES to establish an assessment district to fund future road maintenance.

After all three of the above criteria are met, the Department would then recommend to the Board of Supervisors that the road be accepted into the County Maintained Road System.

If you have questions regarding forming a Permanent Road Division, contact the Land Use Division at 707.445.7205. Staff will be able to provide you specific procedures on how to go about forming the Permanent Road Division. 

The following documents relate to County Policy on accepting roads into the County Maintained Road System

  1. 06-11-1973 BOS Agenda Item Policy A RE Improvement of Existing County Roads

The following table includes hyperlinks to the Board of Supervisors agenda items for the petition and formation of the various Permanent Road Divisions.


Permanent Road 

Division No.

Petition Hearing

Formation Hearing

1000

12/03/2002 Item C-38 (BOS Agenda Item)

12/03/2002 Item C-36 (Resolution)

12/17/2002 Item J-2 (BOS Agenda Item)

12/17/2002 Item J-2 (Resolution)

1000-001

06/08/2004 Item C-18

07/27/2004 Item I-1

09/21/2004 Item C-16

1000-002

08/24/2004 Item C-19

09/14/2004 Item C-16

11/09/2004 Item J-1

1000-003

09/12/2006 Item C-18

11/14/2006 Item K-2

12/05/2006 Item K-3

1000-004

09/01/2006 Item B-21

11/14/2006 Item K-1

12/05/2006 Item K-2

1000-005

03/11/2008 Item D-16

05/06/2008 Item K-1

06/10/2008 Item K-1

1000-006

01/11/2011 Item C-7

03/01/2011 Item L-1

05/03/2011 Item L-2

1000-007

04/24/2013 Item C-8

06/12/2012 Item L-1

1000-007

Annexation No. 1

07/02/2013 Item C-6

08/20/2013 Item L-1

1000-007

Annexation No. 2

12/15/2015 Item C-18 (BOS Agenda Item)

12/15/2015 Item C-18 (Appendix A)

12/15/2015 Item C-18 (Affidavit of Posting)

12/15/2015 Item C-18 (Proof of Publication)

02/02/2016 Item L-1 (BOS Agenda Item)

02/02/2016 Item L-1 (Action Summary)

1000-007

Annexation No. 3

03/27/2018 Item C-16 (BOS Agenda Item)

03/27/2018 Item C-16 (Petition to Form Annexation No. 3)

03/27/2018 Item C-16 (Affidavit of Posting)

03/27/2018 Item C-16 (Proof of Posting)


05/15/2018 Item J-1 (BOS Agenda Item)

05/15/2018 Item J-1 (Proof of Publication)


PRD 1000-008

06/19/2018 Item C-23 (BOS Agenda Item)

06/19/2018 Item C-23 (Proof of Publication)


08/21/2018 Item J-1 (BOS Action Summary)

08/21/2018 Item J-1 (BOS Agenda Item)

08/21/2018 Item J-1 (Attachment 1 - Resolution 18-86)

08/21/2018 Item J-1 (Attachment 1 - Resolution 18-87)