Title: An act relating to the alignment of state route number 290.

Brief Description: Modifying the alignment of state route number 290.

Sponsors: Representatives Wood and Ormsby; by request of Transportation Improvement Board.

Brief History:

Transportation: 2/7/05, 3/3/05 [DP].

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

Majority Report: Do pass. Signed by 26 members: Representatives Murray, Chair; Wallace, Vice Chair; Woods, Ranking Minority Member; Skinner, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Appleton, Buck, Campbell, Curtis, Dickerson, Ericksen, Hankins, Hudgins, Jarrett, Kilmer, Lovick, Morris, Nixon, Rodne, Schindler, Sells, Shabro, Simpson, B. Sullivan, Takko, Upthegrove and Wood.

Staff: Jerry Long (786-7306).

Background:

The 1991 Legislature designated the Transportation Improvement Board (TIB), to review requests from cities, counties or the state for route jurisdiction transfers and to provide a recommendation to the House and Senate Transportation Committees by November 15 of each year for recommended transfers. The TIB adopted Washington Administrative Code rules for the administration of the Route Jurisdiction Transfer process. After soliciting public testimony, the TIB will transfer the request to the Legislature. If a route being considered for transfer is located wholly within one or more contiguous jurisdictions, responsibility can remain at the local level if local officials prefer. Based on the criteria established by the Legislature, the City of Spokane requested that the jurisdiction for a portion of State Route 290 be transferred from the WSDOT to the City of Spokane.

Summary of Bill:

The definition of State Route 290 is amended. Transfers approximately eight tenths of a mile of State Route 290, which is in the City of Spokane from the WSDOT to the City of Spokane. The portion of State Route 290 being transferred begins at State Route 2 and ends at Hamilton Street.

Appropriation: None.

Fiscal Note: Available.

Effective Date: The bill takes effect 90 days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For: The City of Spokane proposed the transfer of jurisdiction from the WSDOT to the City of Spokane. The segment of roadway has changed from a manufacturing and warehouse industrial area to a college campus setting.

Testimony Against: None.

Persons Testifying: (In support) Tom Parker, City of Spokane; and Steve Gorcester, Transportation Improvement Board.

Persons Signed In To Testify But Not Testifying: None.