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The proposed update to the County’s strategic plan is limited to refinements to the organization’s current strategic direction. As the plan draft describes:
“It is our hope that this document lives and provides foundational information and direction to the Washington County organization as we navigate our way forward together into 2028."
County officials are anticipating a more extensive strategic planning process and broader community engagement four years from now, once significant projects under the organization’s “Design the Future” initiative – reach their conclusion. These multi-year projects, already underway, include:
the replacement of the organization’s core financial and human resources planning tool, referred to as enterprise resource planning modernization;
an inventory of the county government’s approximately 350 lines of public service, many of which are mandated by state or federal law;
an organization-wide assessment of current and projected capital improvement needs across the categories of transportation, facilities and technology.
Our 2018 ARTS grant application did not include a traffic signal. Data available at the time indicated that a left turn lane would be about as effective at reducing crashes as a traffic signal. A left-turn lane is less expensive and met the ARTS grant criteria.
Adding a traffic signal or roundabout as part of this project would cost more than the nearly $1 million ARTS grant award. We haven’t done engineering studies to justify a roundabout or traffic signal and we haven’t planned for the cost. However, we will do the engineering studies we need to consider a signal or roundabout as a future project. Traffic and safety data and funding availability will also be considered.
A roundabout requires large amounts of right-of-way. This would be expensive and impact nearby property owners.
We will also do the needed engineering studies to consider the possibility of an all-way stop. Traffic volumes need to justify the addition of an all-way stop.
