Washington County commissioners voted 4-0 on Tuesday, Sept. 15, to acquire right-of-way for a sidewalk project along Kinnaman Road between Farmington Road and 185th Avenue.
The vote, part of the consent agenda at the Board of Commissioners' regular meeting in Hillsboro, clears the way for construction on a corridor that lacks continuous sidewalks, according to draft meeting minutes.
The county's Land Use and Transportation department lists an expected construction start of summer 2027.
Chair Kathryn Harrington, District 1 Commissioner Nafisa Fai, District 2 Commissioner Pam Treece and District 3 Commissioner Jason Snider all voted in favor. District 4 Commissioner Jerry Willey was excused.
Commissioner Fai made the motion and Commissioner Treece seconded it.
The board also approved a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) policy framework and accepted a Comcast Corporation cable franchise agreement as part of the same consent agenda.
Aloha resident presents crash data at board meeting
During the meeting's public comment period, Suraj Sindia, a property owner at 19158 SW Burkwood Lane in unincorporated Aloha, told commissioners that parked cars on SW 192nd Avenue block drivers' sight lines at the intersection with SW Burkwood Lane. The county-maintained road has no center line, no curbs, no sidewalks and gravel shoulders.
Sindia submitted a 35-page packet to the board the day before the meeting. It included ODOT crash data, archived Google Street View imagery and sight-distance standards.
ODOT records cited in the packet show a Dec. 5, 2019, angle-type collision at the intersection that injured three people. A second crash on Feb. 21, 2025, involved a vehicle striking a parked car on SW 192nd Avenue near SW Fernshire Lane, about 225 feet north. ODOT marked that record as preliminary.
The posted speed limit is 25 mph. Archived Street View captures from 2007, 2011, 2019 and 2024 each show at least one vehicle parked on the east side of SW 192nd Avenue near the Burkwood Lane corner.
"All I'm asking for is execution to the commitment that they have," Sindia told the board, referring to the county's open service request investigating the sight-distance complaint.
Chair Harrington said the county team was following up on the complaint and moving forward with its investigation.
Sindia asked the board to ensure the county's evaluation applies intersection sight-distance standards rather than driveway guidance, that field measurements happen when parking conditions are representative and that the county set a specific completion date.
The board's next meeting is Tuesday, Sept. 22, with a work session at 3 p.m. and a board meeting at 6:30 p.m.
