A. Develop and Publish City Engineering Standards. The city engineer or designee shall develop, implement and publish engineering design standards manuals in accordance with ACC 12.04.010(B). The city engineer or 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 be 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.

B. Survey Record Controls. The city engineer or 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 AutoCAD 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.

C. Subdivision Records. The city engineer or designee shall develop office procedures for the safekeeping of record drawings of all recorded plats and short plats.

D. Management of Record Drawings. The city engineer or designee shall develop office procedures for the safekeeping 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. The city engineer or designee shall develop office procedures for the safekeeping 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.

The acquisition of real property and relocation of inhabitants required for the completion of city projects shall be pursuant to ACC 2.03.030 and Chapter 3.10 ACC.

The city engineer may accept easements granted to the city as part of an approved development project or capital projects of the city 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. 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. (Ord. 6532 § 15, 2014; Ord. 6312 § 1, 2010; Ord. 6265 § 2, 2009; Ord. 6258 § 1, 2009; Ord. 6013 § 1, 2006; Ord. 5042 § 1 (Exh. B), 1998.)