2013 Revised Code of Washington
Title 36 - COUNTIES
36.70A Growth management -- Planning by selected counties and cities.
36.70A.1301 Request to amend urban growth area -- Timing -- Criteria.

RCW 36.70A.1301 Request to amend urban growth area — Timing — Criteria. (Expires December 31, 2015.)

(1) The legislative authority of a city planning under RCW 36.70A.040 may request, as part of the county's annual comprehensive plan amendment process, that the applicable county legislative authority amend the urban growth area within which the city is located. A request must meet the county's application deadline for that year's comprehensive plan amendment process. A determination to honor, modify, or reject a request under this section must be issued by the county, as part of the county's annual comprehensive plan amendment process.

     (2) Urban growth area amendment requests under this subsection:

     (a) May only occur in counties located east of the crest of the Cascade mountain range that have more than one hundred thousand and fewer than two hundred thousand residents;

     (b) Must be for the purpose of increasing the amount of territory within the amended urban growth area that is zoned for industrial purposes and the additional land is needed to meet the city's and county's documented needs for additional industrial land to serve their planned population growth;

     (c) May not increase the amount of territory within the amended urban growth area by an amount exceeding seven percent of the total area within the requesting city. Land area determinations under this subsection (2)(c) must be made on a per occurrence, noncumulative basis;

     (d) Must be preceded by a completed development proposal and phased master plan for the area to which the amendment applies and a capital facilities plan with identified funding sources to provide the public facilities and services needed to serve the area; and

     (e) Are null and void if the applicable development proposal has not been wholly or partially implemented within five years of the amendment, or if the area to which the amendment applies has not been annexed within five years of the amendment.

     (3) Nothing in this section limits or otherwise modifies the authority of counties and cities to enter into interlocal agreements under chapter 39.34 RCW for planning costs incurred by a county in accordance with a request under this section.

     (4) This section expires December 31, 2015.

[2012 c 191 § 2.]