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Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part ONE - GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS › Section 365-196-060 - Goals

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The act lists thirteen overall goals in
							RCW
							 36.70A.020, plus the shoreline goal added in
							RCW
							 36.70A.480(1). Counties and
							cities should design comprehensive plans and development regulations to meet
							these goals.
(1) This list of fourteen
						goals is not exclusive. Counties and cities may adopt additional goals.
						However, these additional goals must be supplementary. They may not conflict
						with the fourteen statutory goals.
(2) Balancing the goals in the act.
(a) The act's goals are not listed in order
						of priority. The ultimate burden and responsibility for planning, harmonizing
						the planning goals of this chapter, and implementing a county's or city's
						future rests with that community. Differences in emphasis are expected from
						jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Although there may be an inherent tension between
						the act's goals, counties and cities must give some effect to all the goals.
						Counties and cities should consider developing a written record demonstrating
						that it considered the planning goals during the development of the
						comprehensive plan and development regulations.
(b) When there is a conflict between the
						general planning goals and more specific requirements of the act, the specific
						requirements control.
(c) In some
						cases, counties and cities may support activities outside their jurisdictional
						boundaries in order to meet goals of the act.
(d) Development regulations must be
						consistent with the goals and requirements of the act and the comprehensive
						plan. In most cases, if a comprehensive plan meets the statutory goals,
						development regulations consistent with the comprehensive plan will meet the
						goals.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part TWO - DEFINITIONS › Section 365-196-200 - Statutory definitions

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The following definitions are contained in chapter 36.70A
							RCW and provided under this section for convenience. Most statutory definitions
							included in this section are located in
							RCW
							 36.70A.030. Other relevant statutory terms
							defined elsewhere in chapter 36.70A RCW are also included in this
							section.
(1) "Adopt a comprehensive
						land use plan" means to enact a new comprehensive land use plan or to update an
						existing comprehensive land use plan.
(2) "Agricultural activities" means all
						agricultural uses and practices as defined in
						RCW
						 90.58.065.
(3) "Agricultural land" means land primarily
						devoted to the commercial production of horticultural, viticultural,
						floricultural, dairy, apiary, vegetable, or animal products or of berries,
						grain, hay, straw, turf, seed, Christmas trees not subject to the excise tax
						imposed by *RCW 84.33.100 through
						
										84.33.140, finfish in upland
						hatcheries, or livestock and that has long-term commercial significance for
						agricultural production.
(4) "City"
						means any city or town, including a code city.
(5) "Comprehensive land use plan,"
						"comprehensive plan," or "plan" means a generalized coordinated land use policy
						statement of the governing body of a county or city that is adopted pursuant to
						this chapter.
(6) "Critical areas"
						include the following areas and ecosystems:
(a) Wetlands;
(b) Areas with a critical recharging effect
						on aquifers used for potable water;
(c) Fish and wildlife habitat conservation
						areas;
(d) Frequently flooded
						areas; and
(e) Geologically
						hazardous areas.
"Fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas" does not
							include such artificial features or constructs as irrigation delivery systems,
							irrigation infrastructure, irrigation canals, or drainage ditches that lie
							within the boundaries of and are maintained by a port district or an irrigation
							district or company.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-300 - Urban density

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(1) The role of
						urban areas in the act. The act requires counties and cities to direct new
						growth to urban areas to allow for more efficient and predictable provision of
						adequate public facilities, to promote an orderly transition of governance for
						urban areas, to reduce development pressure on rural and resource lands, and to
						encourage redevelopment of existing urban areas.
(2) How the urban density requirements in the
						act are interrelated. The act involves a consideration of density in three
						contexts:
(a) Allowed densities: The density,
						expressed in dwelling units per acre, allowed under a county's or city's
						development regulations when considering the combined effects of all applicable
						development regulations.
(b)
						Assumed densities: The density at which future development is expected to occur
						as specified in the land capacity analysis or the future land use element.
						Assumed densities are also referred to in
						RCW
						 36.70A.110 as densities sufficient to permit
						the urban growth that is projected to occur.
(c) Achieved density: The density at which
						new development occurred in the period preceding the analysis required in
						either RCW  36.70A.130(3) or
						36.70A.215.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-305 - County-wide planning policies

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(1)
						Purpose of county-wide planning policies. The act requires counties and cities
						to collaboratively develop county-wide planning policies to govern the
						development of comprehensive plans. The primary purpose of county-wide planning
						policies is to ensure consistency between the comprehensive plans of counties
						and cities sharing a common border or related regional issues. Another purpose
						of county-wide planning policies is to facilitate the transformation of local
						governance in the urban growth area, typically through annexation to or
						incorporation of a city, so that urban governmental services are primarily
						provided by cities and rural and regional services are provided by
						counties.
(2) Relationship to the
						act. County-wide planning policies must comply with the requirements of the
						act. County-wide planning policies may not compel counties and cities to take
						action that violates the act. County-wide planning policies may not permit
						actions that the act prohibits nor include exceptions to such prohibitions not
						contained in the act. If a county-wide planning policy can be implemented in a
						way that is consistent with the act, then it is consistent with the act, even
						if its subsequent implementation is found to be out of compliance.
						RCW
						 36.70A.210(4) requires state
						agencies to comply with county-wide planning policies.
(3) Relationship to comprehensive plans. The
						comprehensive plans of counties and cities must comply with both the
						county-wide planning policies and the act. Any requirements in a county-wide
						planning policy do not replace requirements in the act or any other state or
						federal law or regulation.
(4)
						Required policies. Consistent with
						RCW
						 36.70A.210(3) and
						36.70A.215, county-wide planning
						policies must cover the following subjects:
(a) Policies to implement
						RCW
						 36.70A.110, including:
(i) Designation of urban growth
						areas;
(ii) Selection and
						allocation of population between cities and counties as part of the review of
						an urban growth area;
(iii)
						Procedures governing amendments to urban growth areas, including the review
						required by
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(3);
(iv) Consultation between cities and counties
						regarding urban growth areas; and
(v) If desired, policies governing the
						establishment of urban service boundaries or potential annexation
						areas.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-310 - Urban growth areas

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(1)
(a) Except as provided in (b) of this
						subsection, counties and cities may not expand the urban growth area into the
						one hundred-year flood plain of any river or river segment that:
(i) Is located west of the crest of the
						Cascade mountains; and
(ii) Has a
						mean annual flow of one thousand or more cubic feet per second as determined by
						the department of ecology.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-315 - Buildable lands review and evaluation

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(1) Purpose. The review and evaluation
						program required by
						RCW
						 36.70A.215 is referred to as the "buildable
						lands program." The buildable lands program is intended to determine if urban
						densities are being achieved within urban growth areas by comparing local
						planning goals and assumptions with actual development and determining if
						actual development is consistent with the comprehensive plan. It also
						determines if there is sufficient commercial, industrial and housing capacity
						within the adopted urban growth area to accommodate the county's twenty-year
						planning targets. If, through this evaluation, it is determined that there is
						an inconsistency between planned and built-out densities or there is
						insufficient development capacity, counties and cities must adopt and implement
						measures, other than expanding urban growth areas, that are reasonably likely
						to increase consistency. These measures are referred to as "reasonable
						measures." Products derived through the program should be used as a technical
						resource to local policy makers for subsequent comprehensive plan
						updates.
(2) Required
						jurisdictions.
(a) The following counties,
						and the cities located within those counties, must establish and maintain a
						buildable lands program as required by
						RCW
						 36.70A.215:
(i) Clark;
(ii) King;
(iii) Kitsap;
(iv) Pierce;
(v) Snohomish; and
(vi) Thurston.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-320 - Providing urban services

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(1)
						Urban governmental services.
(a) Urban
						services are defined by
						RCW
						 36.70A.030(18) as those
						public services and public facilities at an intensity historically and
						typically provided in cities. Urban services specifically include:
(i) Sanitary sewer systems;
(ii) Storm drainage systems;
(iii) Domestic water systems;
(iv) Street cleaning services;
(v) Fire and police protection
						services;
(vi) Public transit
						services; and
(vii) Other public
						utilities associated with urban areas and normally not associated with rural
						areas.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-325 - Providing sufficient land capacity suitable for development

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(1) Requirements.
(a)RCW
						 36.70A.115 requires counties and cities to
						ensure that, taken collectively, comprehensive plans and development
						regulations provide sufficient capacity of land suitable for development within
						their jurisdictions to accommodate their allocated housing and employment
						growth, including the accommodation of, as appropriate, the medical,
						governmental, educational, institutional, commercial, and industrial facilities
						related to such growth, as adopted in the applicable county-wide planning
						policies and consistent with the twenty-year population forecast from the
						office of financial management. To demonstrate this requirement is met,
						counties and cities must conduct an evaluation of land capacity sufficiency
						that is commonly referred to as a "land capacity analysis."
(b) Counties and cities must complete a land
						capacity analysis that demonstrates sufficient land for development or
						redevelopment to meet their adopted growth allocation targets during the review
						of urban growth areas required by
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(3)(a). See WAC
						365-196-310 for guidance in
						estimating and providing sufficient land capacity.
(c) Counties and cities subject to
						RCW
						 36.70A.215 must determine land capacity
						sufficiency as part of the buildable lands reporting required no later than one
						year prior to the deadline for periodic review of comprehensive plans and
						development regulations required by
						RCW
						 36.70A.130, and adopt and implement measures
						that are reasonably likely to increase the consistency between land capacity
						and growth allocations. See WAC
						365-196-315 for
						guidance.
(d) A complete land
						capacity analysis is not required to be undertaken for every amendment to a
						comprehensive plan or development regulation outside of the act's required
						periodic reviews. However, when considering amendments to the comprehensive
						plan or development regulations which increase or decrease allowed densities,
						counties and cities should estimate the degree of increase or decrease in
						development capacity on lands subject to the amendments, and estimate if the
						capacity change may affect its ability to provide sufficient capacity of land
						suitable for development. If so, the county or city should complete a land
						capacity analysis.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-330 - Phasing development within the UGA

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(1) Purpose of development phasing.
						Development phasing is the sequencing of development subareas within a city or
						urban growth area over the course of the twenty-year planning period.
						Development phasing should be considered a way to achieve one or more of the
						following:
(a) Orderly development pursuant to
						RCW
						 36.70A.110(3), which states
						that urban growth should first be located in areas with existing urban
						development and existing service capacity; second in existing urban development
						areas where new services can be provided in conjunction with existing services;
						and third in the remainder of the urban growth area;
(b) Preventing the irreversible commitment of
						land to urban growth before the provision of adequate public facilities. Within
						the comprehensive plan, the capital facilities element, transportation element,
						and parks and recreation element each must contain a plan to provide urban
						areas with adequate public facilities. The comprehensive plan must identify
						those facilities needed to achieve and maintain adopted levels of service over
						the twenty-year planning period, but only requires a six-year financing plan.
						Development phasing is a tool to address those areas for which capital facility
						needs have been identified in the twenty-year plan, but financing has not yet
						been identified. Because no irreversible commitment of land has been made in
						the zoning ordinance, if provision of urban governmental services ultimately
						proves infeasible, the area can be removed from the urban growth area when
						reassessing the land use element if probable funding falls short;
(c) Preventing a pattern of sprawling low
						density development from occurring or vesting in these areas prior to the
						ability to support urban densities. Once this pattern has occurred, it is more
						difficult to serve with urban services and less likely to ultimately achieve
						urban densities;
(d) Serving as a
						means of developing more detailed intergovernmental agreements or other plans
						to facilitate the orderly transition of governance and public
						services.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-335 - Identification of open space corridors

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(1) Requirements.
(a) Each county or city planning under the
						act must identify open space corridors within and between urban growth areas.
						They must include lands useful for recreation, wildlife habitat, trails, and
						connection of critical areas as defined in
						RCW
						 36.70A.030.
(b) The county or city may seek to acquire by
						purchase the fee simple or lesser interests in open space corridors using funds
						authorized by
						RCW
						 84.34.230 or other sources.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-340 - Identification of lands useful for public purposes

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(1) Requirements. Each county and city
						planning under the act must identify land useful for public purposes such as
						utility corridors, transportation corridors, landfills, sewage treatment
						facilities, storm water management facilities, recreation, schools, and other
						public uses. The county must work with the state and with the cities within the
						county's borders to identify areas of shared need for public facilities. The
						jurisdictions within the county must prepare a prioritized list of lands
						necessary for the identified public uses including an estimated date by which
						the acquisition will be needed. The respective capital acquisition budgets for
						each jurisdiction must reflect the jointly agreed upon priorities and time
						schedule. See WAC
						365-196-405(2)(g),
						Land use element.
(2)
						Recommendations for meeting requirements. Counties and cities should identify
						lands useful for public purposes when updating the urban growth area
						designations and the land use, utilities and transportation elements of
						comprehensive plans. The department recommends that the information derived in
						meeting this requirement be made generally available only to the extent
						necessary to meet the requirements of the public disclosure laws.
Statutory Authority:
								RCW
								36.70A.050 and
								36.70A.190. 10-03-085, §
											365-196-340, filed 1/19/10,
								effective 2/19/10.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part THREE - URBAN GROWTH AREAS AND COUNTY-WIDE PLANNING POLICIES › Section 365-196-345 - New fully contained communities

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(1) Any county planning under the act may
						reserve a portion of its twenty-year population projection for new fully
						contained communities, located outside of the designated urban growth
						areas.
(2) Proposals to authorize
						fully contained communities must be processed according to the locally
						established policies implementing the criteria set forth in
						RCW
						 36.70A.350. Approval of a new fully contained
						community has the effect of amending the comprehensive plan, therefore it is a
						legislative action and should follow the procedures associated with
						comprehensive plan amendments.
Statutory Authority:
								RCW
								36.70A.050 and
								36.70A.190. 10-03-085, §
											365-196-345, filed 1/19/10,
								effective 2/19/10.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-400 - Mandatory elements

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(1)
						Requirements.
(a) The comprehensive plan must
						include, at a minimum, a future land use map.
(b) The comprehensive plan must contain
						descriptive text covering objectives, principles, and standards used to develop
						the comprehensive plan.
(c) The
						comprehensive plan must be an internally consistent document and all elements
						shall be consistent with the future land use map.
(d) Each comprehensive plan must include each
						of the following:
(i) A land use
						element;
(ii) A housing
						element;
(iii) A capital facilities
						plan element;
(iv) A utilities
						element;
(v) A transportation
						element.
(e) Required
						elements enacted after January 1, 2002, must be included in each comprehensive
						plan that is updated under
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(1), but only if
						funds sufficient to cover applicable local government costs are appropriated
						and distributed by the state at least two years before the applicable review
						and update deadline in
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(5). The
						department will notify counties and cities when funds have been appropriated
						for this purpose. Elements enacted after January 1, 2002, include:
(i) An economic development element;
						and
(ii) A parks and recreation
						element.
(f) County
						comprehensive plans must also include a rural element including lands that are
						not designated for urban growth, agriculture, forest, or mineral
						resources.
(g) Additionally, each
						county and city comprehensive plan must contain:
(i) A process for identifying and siting
						essential public facilities.
(ii)
						The goals and policies of the shoreline master program adopted by the county or
						city, either directly in the comprehensive plan, or through incorporation by
						reference as described in WAC
						173-26-191.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-405 - Land use element

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(1) Requirements.
						The land use element must contain the following features:
(a) Designation of the proposed general
						distribution and general location and extent of the uses of land, where
						appropriate, for agricultural, timber, and mineral production, for housing,
						commerce, industry, recreation, open spaces, public utilities, public
						facilities, general aviation airports, military bases, rural uses, and other
						land uses.
(b) Population
						densities, building intensities, and estimates of future population
						growth.
(c) Provisions for
						protection of the quality and quantity of ground water used for public water
						supplies.
(d) Wherever possible,
						consideration of urban planning approaches to promote physical
						activity.
(e) Where applicable, a
						review of drainage, flooding, and storm water runoff in the area covered by the
						plan and nearby jurisdictions, and guidance for corrective actions to mitigate
						or cleanse those discharges that pollute waters of the state, including Puget
						Sound or waters entering Puget Sound.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-410 - Housing element

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(1) Requirements.
						Counties and cities must develop a housing element ensuring vitality and
						character of established residential neighborhoods. The housing element must
						contain at least the following features:
(a)
						An inventory and analysis of existing and projected housing needs.
(b) A statement of the goals, policies, and
						objectives for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing,
						including single-family residences.
(c) Identification of sufficient land for
						housing, including, but not limited to, government-assisted housing, housing
						for low-income families, manufactured housing, multifamily housing, group homes
						and foster care facilities.
(d)
						Adequate provisions for existing and projected housing needs of all economic
						segments of the community.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-415 - Capital facilities element

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(1) Requirements. The capital facilities
						element of a comprehensive plan must contain at least the following features:
(a) An inventory of existing capital
						facilities owned by public entities, also referred to as "public facilities,"
						showing the locations and capacities of the capital facilities;
(b) A forecast of the future needs for such
						capital facilities based on the land use element;
(c) The proposed locations and capacities of
						expanded or new capital facilities;
(d) At least a six-year plan that will
						finance such capital facilities within projected funding capacities and clearly
						identifies sources of public money for such purposes; and
(e) A requirement to reassess the land use
						element if probable funding falls short of meeting existing needs and to ensure
						that the land use element, capital facilities plan element, and financing plan
						within the capital facilities plan element are coordinated and consistent. Park
						and recreation facilities shall be included in the capital facilities plan
						element.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-425 - Rural element

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Counties must include a rural element in their comprehensive
							plan. This element shall include lands that are not designated for urban
							growth, agriculture, forest, or mineral resources. The rural element shall
							permit land uses that are compatible with the rural character of such lands and
							provide for a variety of rural densities.
(1) Developing a written record. When
						developing the rural element, a county may consider local circumstances in
						establishing patterns of rural densities and uses, but must develop a written
						record explaining how the rural element harmonizes the planning goals in the
						act and meets the requirements of the act. This record should document local
						circumstances the county considered and the historic patterns of development in
						the rural areas.
(2) Establishing a
						definition of rural character.
(a) The rural
						element shall include measures that apply to rural development and protect
						rural character. Counties must define rural character to guide the development
						of the rural element and the implementing development regulations.
(b) The act identifies rural character as
						patterns of land use and development that:
(i) Allow open space, the natural landscape,
						and vegetation to predominate over the built environment;
(ii) Foster traditional rural lifestyles,
						rural-based economies, and opportunities to both live and work in rural
						areas;
(iii) Provide visual
						landscapes that are traditionally found in rural areas and
						communities;
(iv) Are compatible
						with the use of land by wildlife and for fish and wildlife habitat;
(v) Reduce the inappropriate conversion of
						undeveloped land into sprawling, low-density development;
(vi) Generally do not require the extension
						of urban governmental services; and
(vii) Are consistent with protection of
						natural surface water flows and ground water and surface water recharge and
						discharge areas.
(c)
						Counties should adopt a locally appropriate definition of rural character.
						Rural areas are diverse in visual character and in density, across the state
						and across a particular county. Rural development may consist of a variety of
						densities and uses. It may, for example, include clustered residential
						development at levels consistent with the preservation of rural character.
						Counties should define rural development both in terms of its visual character
						and in terms of the density and intensity of uses. Defining rural development
						in this way allows the county to use its definition of rural development both
						in its future land use designations and in its development regulations
						governing rural development.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-435 - Economic development element

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(1) Requirements.
(a) The economic development element should
						establish local goals, policies, objectives, and provisions for economic growth
						and vitality and a high quality of life. An economic development element should
						include:
(i) A summary of the local economy
						such as population, employment, payroll, sectors, businesses, sales, and other
						information as appropriate;
(ii) A
						summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the local economy defined as the
						commercial and industrial sectors and supporting factors such as land use,
						transportation, utilities, education, workforce, housing, and natural/cultural
						resources; and
(iii) An
						identification of policies, programs, and projects to foster economic growth
						and development and to address future needs. Identification of these policies,
						programs, and projects should include a summary of each.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-440 - Parks and recreation element

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(1) Requirements.
(a) The park and recreation element of the
						comprehensive plan must contain at least the following features:
(i) Consistency with the capital facilities
						element as it relates to park and recreation facilities;
(ii) Estimates of park and recreation demand
						for at least a ten-year period;
(iii) An evaluation of facilities and service
						needs; and
(iv) An evaluation of
						intergovernmental coordination opportunities to provide regional approaches for
						meeting park and recreational demand.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-445 - Optional elements

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(1) A
						comprehensive plan may include additional elements, items, or studies dealing
						with other subjects relating to the physical development within its
						jurisdiction, including, but not limited to:
(a) Conservation;
(b) Solar energy.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-455 - Land use compatibility adjacent to general aviation airports

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(1) Requirements:
(a) Counties and cities in which there is
						located a general aviation airport operated for the benefit of the general
						public must, through their comprehensive plans and development regulations,
						discourage the siting of incompatible uses adjacent to such an
						airport.
(b) Comprehensive plans or
						development regulations that affect lands adjacent to a general aviation
						airport may only be adopted or amended after formal consultation with the
						following: Airport owners and managers, private airport operators, general
						aviation pilots, ports, and the aviation division of the Washington state
						department of transportation.
(c)
						All proposed and adopted plans and regulations must be filed with the aviation
						division of the Washington state department of transportation within a
						reasonable time after release for public consideration and comment, but at
						least sixty days before adoption. See WAC
						365-196-630 regarding notice to
						state agencies.
(d) General
						aviation airports are essential public facilities. Counties and cities must
						also ensure that proposed changes to comprehensive plans and development
						regulations are consistent with policies governing siting essential public
						facilities adopted under
						RCW
						 36.70A.200. See WAC
						365-196-550 regarding essential
						public facilities.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-465 - Major industrial developments

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(1) General authority for major industrial
						developments. A county required or choosing to plan under the act may
						establish, in consultation with cities under the county-wide planning policies
						outlined in
						RCW
						 36.70A.210, a process for reviewing and
						approving proposals to authorize siting of specific major industrial
						developments outside urban growth areas.
(2)
(a)
						"Major industrial development" means a master planned location for specific
						manufacturing, industrial, or commercial businesses that:
(i) Requires a parcel of land so large that
						no suitable parcels are available within an urban growth area; or
(ii) Is a natural resource-based industry
						requiring a location near agricultural land, forest land, or mineral resource
						land upon which it is dependent.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-470 - Industrial land banks

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(1) In
						addition to the major industrial development allowed under
						RCW
						 36.70A.365, a county planning under
						RCW
						 36.70A.040 that meets the criteria in
						subsection (2) of this section may establish a process for designating an
						industrial land bank consisting of no more than two master planned locations
						for major industrial activity outside urban growth areas.
(a) "Industrial land bank" means up to two
						master planned locations, each consisting of a parcel or parcels of contiguous
						land, sufficiently large so as not to be readily available within the urban
						growth area of a city, or otherwise meeting the criteria contained in
						RCW
						 36.70A.367(4)(a), suitable
						for manufacturing, industrial, or commercial businesses and designated by the
						county through the comprehensive planning process specifically for major
						industrial use.
(b) The process of
						designating industrial land banks must occur in consultation with cities
						consistent with the county-wide planning policies and, where applicable
						multicounty planning policies.
(c)
						A master planned location for major industrial developments may be approved
						through a two-step process: Designation of an industrial land bank area in the
						comprehensive plan; and subsequent approval of specific major industrial
						developments through a local master plan process described under subsection
						(3)(f) of this section.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-480 - Natural resource lands

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(1)
						Requirements.
(a) In the initial period
						following adoption of the act, and prior to the development of comprehensive
						plans, counties and cities planning under the act were required to designate
						natural resource lands of long-term commercial significance and adopt
						development regulations to assure their conservation. Natural resource lands
						include agricultural, forest, and mineral resource lands. The previous
						designations and development regulations shall be reviewed in connection with
						the comprehensive plan adoption process and, where necessary, altered to ensure
						consistency.
(b) Counties and
						cities planning under the act must review their natural resource lands
						designations, comprehensive plans, policies, and development regulations as
						part of the required periodic update under
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(1) and
						36.70A.131.
(c) Counties and cities not planning under
						RCW
						 36.70A.040 must review their natural resource
						lands designations, and if necessary revise those designations as part of the
						required periodic update under
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(1) and
						36.70A.131.
(d) Forest land and agricultural land located
						within urban growth areas shall not be designated as forest resource land or
						agricultural resource land unless the county or city has enacted a program
						authorizing transfer or purchase of development rights.
(e) Mineral lands may be designated as
						mineral resource lands within urban growth areas. There may be subsequent reuse
						of mineral resource lands when the minerals have been mined out. In cases where
						designated mineral resource lands are likely to be mined out and closed to
						further mining within the planning period, the surface mine reclamation plan
						and permit from the department of natural resources division of geology should
						be reviewed to ensure it is consistent with the adopted comprehensive land use
						plan.
(f) In adopting development
						regulations to conserve natural resource lands, counties and cities shall
						address the need to buffer land uses adjacent to the natural resource lands.
						Where buffering is used it should be on land within the adjacent development
						unless an alternative is mutually agreed on by adjacent landowners.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FOUR - FEATURES OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN › Section 365-196-485 - Critical areas

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(1) Relationship
						to the comprehensive plan.
(a) The act
						requires that the planning goals in
						RCW
						 36.70A.020 guide the development and adoption
						of comprehensive plans and development regulations. These goals include
						retaining open space; enhancing recreation opportunities; conserving fish and
						wildlife habitat; protecting the environment and enhancing the state's high
						quality of life, including air and water quality, and the availability of
						water.
(b) Jurisdictions are
						required to include the best available science in developing policies and
						development regulations to protect the functions and values of critical
						areas.
(c) Counties and cities are
						required to identify open space corridors within and between urban growth areas
						for multiple purposes, including those areas needed as critical habitat by
						wildlife.
(d)RCW
						 36.70A.070(1) requires
						counties and cities to provide for protection of the quality and quantity of
						ground water used for public water supplies in the land use element. Where
						applicable, the land use element must review drainage, flooding, and storm
						water runoff in the area and in nearby jurisdictions, and provide guidance to
						mitigate or cleanse those discharges that pollute waters of the state,
						including Puget Sound or waters entering Puget Sound.
(e) Because the critical areas regulations
						must be consistent with the comprehensive plan, each comprehensive plan should
						set forth the underlying policies for the jurisdiction's critical areas
						program.
(f) In pursuing the
						environmental protection and open space goals of the act, such policies should
						identify nonregulatory measures for protecting critical areas as well as
						regulatory approaches. Nonregulatory measures include but are not limited to:
						Incentives, public education, and public recognition, and could include
						innovative programs such as the purchase or transfer of development rights.
						When such policies are incorporated into the plan (either in a separate element
						or as a part of the land use element), the consistency of the regulations can
						be readily assessed.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FIVE - CONSISTENCY AND COORDINATION › Section 365-196-500 - Internal consistency

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(1)
						Comprehensive plans must be internally consistent. This requirement means that
						differing parts of the comprehensive plan must fit together so that no one
						feature precludes the achievement of any other.
(2) Use of compatible assumptions. A county
						or city must use compatible assumptions in different aspects of the plan.
(a) A county or city should use common
						numeric assumptions to the fullest extent possible, particularly in the
						long-term growth assumptions used in developing the land use, capital
						facilities and other elements of the comprehensive plan.
(b) If a county or city relies on forecasts,
						inventories, or functional plans developed by other entities, these plans might
						have been developed using different time horizons or different boundaries. If
						these differences create inconsistent assumptions, a county or city should
						include an analysis in its comprehensive plan of the differences and reconcile
						them to create a plan that uses compatible assumptions.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development) › Chapter 365-196 - Growth Management Act-Procedural criteria for adopting comprehensive plans and development regulations › Part FIVE - CONSISTENCY AND COORDINATION › Section 365-196-510 - Interjurisdictional consistency

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(1)
						Each county or city comprehensive plan must be coordinated with, and consistent
						with, the comprehensive plans of other counties and cities that share common
						borders or related regional issues with that county or city. Determining
						consistency in this interjurisdictional context is complicated by the
						differences in timing of comprehensive plan adoption and subsequent
						amendments.
(2) Initially,
						interjurisdictional consistency should be met by the adoption of comprehensive
						plans, and subsequent amendments, which are consistent with and carry out the
						relevant county-wide planning policies and, where applicable, the relevant
						multicounty planning policies. Adopted county-wide planning policies are
						designed to ensure that county and city comprehensive plans are consistent.
						More detailed recommendations about county-wide planning policies are contained
						in WAC 365-196-305.
(3) To better ensure consistency of
						comprehensive plans, counties and cities should consider using similar policies
						and assumptions that apply to common areas or issues.
Statutory Authority:
								RCW
								36.70A.050 and
								36.70A.190. 10-03-085, §
											365-196-510, filed 1/19/10,
								effective 2/19/10.