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Design Standards

The Public Works Design Standards provides the procedures and standards necessary for the permitting, design, and construction of roadway facilities within Mesa County rights-of-way.

Purposes:

  • Protect public health
  • Ensure vehicular and pedestrian safety and welfare
  • Maintain smooth and efficient traffic flow
  • Maintain present and future road drainage
  • Balance the interests and liability of private property owners with public safety and public investments
  • Balance the economy of construction and land use by designing to minimize maintenance costs
  • Meet state, regional, local and private transportation needs and interests
A site engineer with a white hardhat and a laptop is checking off a list on a clipboard, which are sitting on top of his construction plans.

Main design standards

Appendix and seed mixes

Amendments

Functional classification map

  • Map to be used in conjunction with the Mesa County Design Standards
  • Maps govern roadways in unincorporated Mesa outside the limits of incorporated communities' city limits and/or urban growth boundaries
  • Map references and will be updated as local jurisdictions update their
    • Functional classification maps
    • City limits
    • Development boundaries

Functional classification map