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Grant County officials are looking at road improvement districts as an option when neighborhoods want to improve an existing road, like this one near Moses Lake. No decision has yet been made on whether to implement such districts, but they may be one way to address busy dirt roads in the county.

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Road improvements?
March 27, 2023 4:25 p.m.

Road improvements?

Grant officials consider road improvement districts

EPHRATA — Grant County officials are looking at the possibility of residents using a long-existing state law to facilitate the development of roads in unincorporated areas. Grant County Engineer David Bren explained the concept of a “road improvement district” to commissioners last week. Bren said in a separate interview that the idea is to allow neighborhoods to work with county officials to improve a road, and set up the mechanism to pay for it...