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Road Maintenance Special Districts
County Service Areas and Permanent Road Divisions provide road maintenance and snow removal to public roads within defined boundaries of unincorporated Tuolumne County.
Snow removal performed in County Service Areas follows the Tuolumne County Snow Removal Policy. To learn more please visit the road operations webpage.
Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Annual Reports
Why did Tuolumne County create Special Districts for road maintenance?
Tuolumne County has not taken new subdivision roads into the County maintained system since 1989. In many cases, a condition of approval for new subdivisions was to require a County Service Area to be formed as a mechanism to fund road maintenance services. Any special assessment or special tax charges for road maintenance for parcels in special districts such as a County Service Area or a Permanent Road Division zone of benefit are line items billed along with your property taxes.
There is an established procedure if you want to create a PRD Zone of Benefit.
There is an established procedure if you want to create a PRD Zone of Benefit.
Why do some districts have more funding than others?
County Service Areas and Permanent Road Divisions Zones of Benefit that collect special assessments or special taxes yearly are considered active. Each of the active special districts receives annual reports. Areas where the property owners have not approved a funding source such as a special assessment or special tax are considered inactive. These CSAs do not receive annual reports or have a formal maintenance program in place since the funds have not been approved to prepare or administer them. Maintenance or repair work is done as funds allow.
Since the 2009 changes in California County Service Area law now requires CSAs to be perpetually funded, a CSA with no source of income may be considered for dissolution.
Since the 2009 changes in California County Service Area law now requires CSAs to be perpetually funded, a CSA with no source of income may be considered for dissolution.
Contact Us
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Kim MacFarlane
Public Works Director
Blossom Scott-Heim
Supervising Engineer
Email
Please use the Staff Directory or Call our Main Line
Physical Address:
A.N. Francisco Building
48 Yaney Ave.
Floor 3
Sonora, CA 95370
Mailing Address:
2 S. Green St.
Sonora, CA 95370
Ph: 209-533-5601
Fx: 209-533-5698
Hours:
Monday through Thursday
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Closed on Fridays
Telephone Service:
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Why is my neighborhood a County Service Area?
- Why are my County Service Area roads not plowed at the same time as the nearby County road?
- Can we put a gate up on our County Service Area road so that non-residents can’t get in?
- There’s a streetlight out in my neighborhood. How can I report it?
- I live on a private road and want to create a Permanent Road Division Zone of Benefit so we can all chip in for road maintenance. How can I do that?
- How can I find out how much my parcel pays into the CSA?
- I live in an “inactive” CSA. What does that mean?
- There used to be a County Service Area in my neighborhood but it was dissolved. Who is maintaining the roads now?
- What is the governing body for the CSA? Can’t we just call the County and get the funds released so we can do maintenance work ourselves
- How do I pay my special assessment or special tax?
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