Referred to the House Local Government Committee on January 18, 2021
Substitute offered in the House on February 10, 2021
Increases the review and revision cycle for comprehensive plans and Shoreline Master Plans from eight to 10 years.
• Requires cities and counties with a population of 7,500 or more, that have not experienced a specified recent population decline, to produce an annual work program for implementing the comprehensive plan.
• Requires counties and cities to submit an implementation progress report with certain required information to the Department of Commerce (Commerce) five years after reviewing and revising a comprehensive plan.
The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on February 10, 2021
Amendment offered by Rep. Davina Duerr (King) (D) on March 8, 2021
Limits implementation progress report requirements to counties that on or after January 1, 2021, have either: (a) A population density of at least 100 people per square mile and a population of at least 200,000; or (b) a population density of at least 75 people per square mile and an annual growth rate of at least 1.75 percent as determined by the office of financial management, and to cities within such counties with a population of more than 6,000 as of January 1, 2021.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 8, 2021
Amendment offered by Rep. Davina Duerr (King) (D) on March 8, 2021
Provides that only those counties that are required or that
choose to plan under RCW 36.70A.040 are potentially subject to the implementation progress report requirements.
Provides that once a county meets either of the criteria that would required it to submit an implementation progress report, the county and the cities with populations greater than 6,000 as of January 1, 2021, therein will remain subject to the implementation progress report requirements even if the county later does not meet either or both of the criteria..
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 8, 2021