2013 Revised Code of Washington
Title 36 - COUNTIES
36.70 Planning enabling act.
36.70.330 Comprehensive plan -- Required elements.

RCW 36.70.330 Comprehensive plan — Required elements.

The comprehensive plan shall consist of a map or maps, and descriptive text covering objectives, principles and standards used to develop it, and shall include each of the following elements:

     (1) A land use element which designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of land for agriculture, housing, commerce, industry, recreation, education, public buildings and lands, and other categories of public and private use of land, including a statement of the standards of population density and building intensity recommended for the various areas in the jurisdiction and estimates of future population growth in the area covered by the comprehensive plan, all correlated with the land use element of the comprehensive plan. The land use element shall also provide for protection of the quality and quantity of groundwater used for public water supplies and shall review drainage, flooding, and storm water run-off in the area and nearby jurisdictions and provide guidance for corrective actions to mitigate or cleanse those discharges that pollute Puget Sound or waters entering Puget Sound;

     (2) A circulation element consisting of the general location, alignment and extent of major thoroughfares, major transportation routes, trunk utility lines, and major terminal facilities, all of which shall be correlated with the land use element of the comprehensive plan;

     (3) Any supporting maps, diagrams, charts, descriptive material and reports necessary to explain and supplement the above elements.

[1985 c 126 § 3; 1984 c 253 § 3; 1963 c 4 §36.70.330 . Prior: 1959 c 201 § 33.]