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3. The condition of the road; <br />4. Whether it will be advisable to preserve it for the county road system in the future; <br />5. Whether the public will be benefited by its vacation and abandonment; <br />6. A determination by appraisal of the fair market value of the area sought to be vacated; <br />7. The classification of the road area according to the type and amount of expenditures <br />made and the nature of the county's interest therein according to the following <br />classification; <br />a. Class A - public expenditures made <br />b. Class B - no public expenditures made. <br />8. Whether the proposed area to be vacated contains utilities. <br />9. All other matters which will be of interest to the board including an itemized list of costs <br />and expenses incurred in the examination, report, appraisal and all proceedings <br />pertaining to such petition to vacate and abandon. (Ord. 94-32 (part), 1994; Ord. 93-17 <br />(part), 1993. Formerly 12.60.040), <br />12.22.050 Notice of hearing. <br />Notice of hearing upon the report for vacation and abandonment of a county road shall be <br />published by the board at least once a week for two consecutive weeks preceding the date fixed for <br />the hearing in the county official newspaper and a copy of the notice shall be posted for at least <br />twenty days preceding the day fixed for hearing at each termini of the county road or portion thereof <br />proposed to be vacated or abandoned. Notice of hearing shall also be addressed through the United <br />States mail to all property owners of record within a radius of three hundred feet of the exterior <br />boundaries of the subject property and mailed not less than twelve days prior to the hearing. (Ord. <br />94-32 (part), 1994; Ord. 93-17 (part), 1993. Formerly 12.60.050). <br />12.22.060 Hearing. <br />Hearing. On the day fixed for the hearing, the board shall proceed to consider the report of the <br />director, together with any evidence for any objection against such vacation and abandonment. If the <br />county road is found useful as a part of the county road system it shall not be vacated, but if it is not <br />useful and the public will be benefited by the vacation, the board, by ordinance, may vacate the road <br />or portion thereof. (Ord. 94-32 (part), 1994; Ord. 93-17 (part), 1993. Formerly 12.60.060). <br />12.22.070 Expense of proceeding. <br />If the board determines to vacate the road, one of the conditions for vacation shall be that <br />petitioners pay to the county road fund the itemized costs and expenses detailed in Kittitas County <br />Code Chapter 4.16. Upon payment of these costs and the meeting of any other terms and conditions <br />included in the ordinance granting vacation and entered into its minutes, the road or portion thereof <br />shall be considered vacated. (Ord. 94-32 (part), 1994; Ord. 93-17 (part), 1993. Formerly 12.60.070). <br />12.22.080 Compensation to county as condition to vacation. <br />The board in its ordinance of vacation may require persons benefiting from the vacation of county <br />roads to pay Kittitas County for the appraised fair market value of the property vacated. Such <br />compensation shall be one of the conditions precedent to the actual vacation of the county road <br />right-of-way. Pursuant to RCW 36,87.110 the board may separately classify county roads for which <br />no public expenditures have been made in the acquisition, improvement or maintenance of the <br />same, according to the nature of the county's property interest in the road, and determine <br />