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RIDs <br />introduction <br />Counties in Washington State can utilize LIDs for water, sewer and storm sewer system <br />improvements under Chapter 36.94 RCW. Procedures under that statute are very similar to LID <br />procedures in cities and towns under Chapters 35.43-50 RCW and the material in the first six <br />chapters of this manual are generally applicable to water, sewer and storm sewer LIDs in <br />Counties. <br />Assessment districts for road improvement projects in counties however, must follow the RID <br />procedures under Chapter 36.881ICW, warranting a separate chapter in this manual. While RIDS <br />operate under a separate state statute, they differ only somewhat from the provisions and <br />procedures for LIN in cities and towns. Therefore the preceding six chapters, especially the <br />details in Chapter 3, are very helpful resources for the RID process and should be used in <br />conjunction with this RID chapter. This chapter attempts to highlight some of the items unique <br />to cR I Ds. <br />Road improvement projects under the RID statute obviously include paving. However, the law <br />goes onto include several other types of improvement. RCW36.88.010 and RCW36.88.015 give <br />counties the power to- <br />"... create county road improvement districts for the acquisition of rights of way and <br />improvement of county roads, existing private roads that will become county roads as a <br />result of this improvement districtprocess and, with the approval of the state department <br />of transportation, state highways,- for the construction or improvement of necessary <br />drainage facilities, bulkheads, retaining walls, and other appurtenances therefor, bridges, <br />culveMsidewalks, curbsandgutters, escalators, ormoving side walks; andforthe draining <br />or filling of drainage potholes or swamps." <br />and <br />create county road improvement districts for the construction, installation, <br />improvement; operation, and maintenance of street and road lighting systems for any <br />countyroads, andsubjectto the approval of the state department of transportation, forstain <br />highways, and forsafeguards to protectthe public from hazards of open canals, flumes, or <br />ditches, ... " <br />Much of the material in this chapter is adapted from Spokane County docurr.ents and the <br />county's RID process. A complete set of Spokane County documents in electronic form is <br />available (see appendix for listing). Spokane County's RID work is mostly upgrading of gravel <br />roads to pavement with associated improvements to drainage facilities. Virtually all RIDs have <br />been for public roads, though they have in a few instances used the process to improve private <br />roads before taking them into the public system. <br />74 Local and Road Improvement Districts Manual for Washington State Sixth Edition <br />