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2023 Docket Enabling Ordinance December 19, 2023 <br />Page 65 <br /> <br /> <br />b. County Rural Collector. Rural collectors (major and minor) are the main <br />county roads in the nonurban areas. The predominant function of rural <br />collectors is the movement of through traffic, but they also provide <br />connections to traffic generators such as schools, shipping points, parks, <br />important agricultural areas, etc. Rural collectors provide for considerable <br />local traffic that originates or is destined to points along the corridor and <br />provide links to nearby towns or cities or with other routes of higher <br />classification. Collectors allow for more emphasis on land access than <br />major and minor arterials. See KC Standard Plan 5. <br /> <br />c. County Rural Local Access. Rural local access roads typically provide <br />access to individual homes, businesses, and similar traffic destinations. <br />Through traffic is discouraged by appropriate geometric design and/or <br />traffic control devices and these roads typically do not include on-street <br />parking. Direct access to abutting land is encouraged, but urban local <br />access roads may terminate in a cul-de-sac or other dead end turn- <br />around configuration. For dead ends and turn-arounds, see KC <br />12.04.04.110 and KCC Standard Plan 9-10. See KC Standard Plan 6. <br /> <br />2. County Primitive Roads. Primitive roads are a specialized classification of road. <br />They are defined as unpaved rural roads with an annualized average daily traffic <br />(AADT) of less than 100. They are identified and included in the Kittitas County <br />Road Log. Primitive roads are not adequate for further development without <br />extending new improvements to an identified county arterial or county collector <br />in accordance with the design and construction standards identified in these <br />standards. Primitive County Roads are further defined by RCW 36.75.300 <br />3. County Unimproved Rights-of-Way. In various locations throughout the <br />county there are portions of dedicated or deeded public road right-of-way that <br />do not contain a roadway and have not been identified in the Kittitas County <br />Road Log. These rights-of-way are public, but are unimproved. These rights-of- <br />way should not be construed as adequate access for any type of land use <br />application. They are not adequate for further development under any <br />circumstances without extending new improvements to an identified county <br />arterial or county collector in accordance with the design and construction <br />standards identified in these standards. The county does not provide <br />maintenance for unimproved county rights-of-way.