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To: Planning and Community Development Committee
Mayor
From: Ingrid Gaub, Assistant City Engineer
CC: Dennis Dowdy, Public Works Director .
Dennis Selle, City Engineer
Date: August 17, 2009
Re: Proposed Revisions to ACC 12.04 Engineering Standards
The recent change to Title 17 of the Auburn City Code includes references to Title 12
that require clarification. Attached you will find the proposed draft changes to Chapter
12.04 which provides correction and clarification of the what documents make up the
City's Engineering Design and Construction Standards.
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Chapter 12.04
PUBLIC WORKS CONSTRUCTION
Sections:
12.04.010 Adoption of standard plans, engineering construction
standardsspecifications, details, and engineering design standards.
12.04.020 Contracts – Conformance to engineering construction standards plans,
specifications, details, and engineering design standards.
12.04.030 Severability.
12.04.040 Engineering construction standards and Standard plans, specifications,
details, andengineering design standards – Copies filed.
12.04.050 Authorities for public infrastructure and right-of-way management.
12.04.010 Adoption of engineering construction standards standard plans,
specifications, details,and engineering design standards.
A. Adopted – Engineering Construction Standards. Standard Plans. The engineering
construction standards include the following documents and manuals which are herein
referred to as the “engineering construction standards” and are adopted by reference:
1.A manual of specific plans or drawings developed, adopted and titled The
“Standard Plans (M21-01) for Road, Bridge, and Municipal Construction” prepared by
the Washington State Department of Transportation and the American Public Works
Association, Washington State Chapter, the latest publication and amendments thereto,
as supplemented and amended by thedetermined appropriate for city infrastructure by
the city engineer for specific construction applications and for conformance with adopted
city engineering design standards, hereinafter referred to as the “standard plans” is
adopted by reference.
2.B.Adopted– Standard Specifications. The Standard Specifications for Road,
Bridge and Municipal Construction, the latest (English) edition publication and
amendments thereto which includes the APWA Supplement (Section 1-99), as issued by
the Washington State Department of Transportation and the American Public Works
Association, Washington State Chapter, as supplemented and amended through special
provisionsby the city engineer for specific construction applications and for conformance
with adopted city engineering design standards., hereinafter referred to as the “standard
specifications” is adopted by reference.
3.C.Adopted– Standard Details. The City of Auburn Engineering Standard
Details, aA manual of specific plans or drawings developed and adopted by the city of
Auburn department of public works which show frequently recurring components of work
that have been standardized for repetitive use, as supplemented and amended by the
city engineer for specific construction applications and for conformance with adopted city
engineeringdesign standards, hereinafter referred to as the “standard details” is adopted
by reference.
BD. Adopted – Engineering Design Standards. The engineering design standards
include the following documents and manuals which are herein referred to as the
“engineering design standards” and are adopted by reference to the extent authorized by
thecommittee:
1.A manual of specific design requirements plans or drawings developed and
adopted by the city of Auburn department of public works which show frequently
recurring public transportation and utility infrastructure standards as approved by the
Public Works Committee, supplemented and amended by the city engineer for specific
design applications to the extent authorized by the Public Works Committee. for each
respective classification of city facilities as approved by the public works committee,
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supplemented and amended by the city engineer for specific construction applications
andfor conformance with adopted city design standards, hereinafter referred to as the
“Design Standards” is adopted by reference.
CE. Adopted – Highway Access Management. Chapter 468-52 WAC, Highway
Access Management – Access Control Classification System and Standards, and
amendments thereto, with the exception of WAC 468-52-060 and 468-52-070, is
adopted by reference with the following amendments:
1. All references to the “Department” shall be changed to “city of Auburn.”
2. All references to Chapter 468-51 WAC or sections thereof shall be changed to
“City of Auburn Engineering Design Standards.” (Ord. 6157 § 1, 2008; Ord. 5042 § 1
(Exh. B), 1998.)
12.04.020 Contracts – Conformance to engineering construction
standardsstandard plans, specifications, details, and engineering design
standards.
All public works construction contracts of the city, including but not limited to streets
and sidewalks, storm water and sanitary sewers systems, and water distribution
systems, shall conform to the specifications adopted in ACC 12.04.010. Furthermore, all
work within city public ways performed by others subject to Chapter 12.24 ACC,
Construction Permits, shall conform to the same standards. (Ord. 5042 § 1 (Exh. B),
1998.)
12.04.030 Severability.
If any provision of this chapter or the engineering construction standards or
engineering design standardsstandard plans, specifications, or details adopted by
reference in ACC 12.04.020 and effective from and after January 16, 1998, or their
application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter or
its application of the provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.
(Ord. 5042 § 1 (Exh. B), 1998.)
12.04.040 Standard plans, specifications, details,Engineering construction
standards and engineering design standards – Copies filed.
Under the provisions of RCW 35A.12.140, the ordinance codified in this chapter shall
be published as required by law, but the aforementioned engineering construction
standardsstandard plans, specifications, or details and engineering design standards
adopted by reference in ACC 12.04.020 need not be published but shall be
authenticated and recorded with the Auburn city clerk, and not less than one copy of
each such standard documents in the form in which it was adopted shall forthwith be
filed in the office of the Auburn city clerk for use and examination by the public. (Ord.
5042 § 1 (Exh. B), 1998.)
12.04.050 Authorities for public infrastructure and right-of-way management.
A. Develop and Publish City Engineering Standards. The city engineer or his/her
designee shall develop, implement and publish engineering design standards
manualsdetails and specifications for all public works after review and approval by the
public works committee. The city engineer or his/her designee shall develop, implement
and publish engineering construction standards manuals and establish engineering
standard construction practices for regulation of all work within the public way by all
persons to include, but not limited to, franchise public/private utilities and entities
possessing a right-of-way agreement and/or permit to assure the public’s safety, welfare
and interest is protected.
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B.Management of Record Drawings. The city engineer or his/her designee shall
develop office procedures for the safe keeping of record drawings of all public
infrastructure to include, but not limited to, improvements in streets, sidewalks,
illumination systems, pavement condition surveys, water, sanitary and storm water
sewers utility systems.
BC. Survey Record Controls. The city engineer or his/her designee shall develop
office procedures for establishing horizontal and vertical control registration of existing
and future development within the urban growth areas of the city. Procedures will utilize
both city and private development record drawings and survey efforts to continue to
maintain an accurate current database for future reference. The city will provide the most
current benchmark geodetic survey data to new developers and for city construction
projects at the administrative cost of providing the service, and require in exchange, at
no cost to the city, the developer and/or city project sponsors to provide equal quality
record drawings in Autocadd drawing file format at completion of the development and/or
city project to update records reflecting survey controls of the new development and/or
city infrastructure.
CD. Subdivision Records. The city engineer or his/her designee shall develop office
procedures for the safe keeping of record drawings of all recorded plats and short plats.
D. Management of Record Drawings. The city engineer or his/her designee shall
develop office procedures for the safe keeping of record drawings of all public
transportation, water, sanitary sewer, and storm drainage infrastructure as defined in
ACC 13.40.010.
E. Management of Right-of-Way and, Easements, and Extensions of Public Facilities
by Private Developers. The city engineer or his/her designee shall develop office
procedures for the safe keeping of record drawings of all public right-of-way, public
access easements, city utility easements, cross drainage easements, and public
facilities developed and dedicated to the city by private developers.
The city engineer may accept easements granted to the city as part of an approved
development project for city utilities, drainage, slope protection, public access, and right-
of-way, and may also accept public facility extensions that are not dedicated through
plats and short plats. After review by the public works committee, the city engineer may
execute a release or partial release of any city utility, drainage, temporary road, or slope
protection easements that are not needed or are no longer needed for city purposes. All
other city-held easements shall be released only by city council action, and public right-
of-way easements shall be subject to the vacation provisions set forth in Chapter 12.48
ACC, and in accordance with Chapter 35.79 RCW. For management of developer facility
extensions, the city engineer will develop procedures to receive developer fees and/or
deposits, accounting for the costs of reviewing and approving developer plans, and
inspection of construction work performed by the developer, and reimbursement of city
costs by developer funds. (Ord. 6013 § 1, 2006; Ord. 5042 § 1 (Exh. B), 1998.)
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