PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners on Tuesday set a Nov. 17 public hearing on a proposal to lower the speed limits on West Sequim Bay Road and Old Mill Road south of Port Angeles.
The speed limit on West Sequim Bay road would fall from 35 mph to 30 mph. The proposal stemmed from a private petitioner.
The steep, windy southern section of Old Mill Road would see its 35 mph speed limit lowered to 20 mph under the proposal.
Ross Tyler, Clallam County engineer, pitched the change to lower the speed limit from milepost 1.39, where the road pinches down, to its southern end.
Public comment will be taken through the hearing.
Comments can be e-mailed on the county’s Web site, www.clallam.net, or sent to the commissioners’ office (Suite 4) at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
In the shortest board meeting of the calendar year, the board also approved the sale of two abandoned houses on Towne Road near Sequim.
A prospective buyer can bid for the structures, which must be moved or scrapped by November 2010, at 10 a.m. Nov. 13 in the lobby of the Clallam County Courthouse.
The properties will make way for the Dungeness River once the dikes are moved back from the channel.
The board added a proclamation to its the agenda to recognize the 50th anniversary of the Clallam Conservation District.
The district works with tribes, cities, non-profit organizations and the county to help private landowners conserve natural resources. It assists irrigation districts to conserve water, manage manure runoff and replaces culverts along logging roads.
The district has three full-time and two half-time employees.
An interlocal agreement with the city of Port Angeles for district court filing fees and a notice of bids for the renovation of a Third Street building for county office space were postponed.
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Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-417-3537 or at rob.ollikainen@peninsuladailynews.com.
