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 SIX - REVIEWING, AMENDING, AND UPDATING COMPREHENSIVE PLANS AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS › Section 365-196-610 - Periodic review and update of comprehensive plans and development regulations

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1)
						Requirements.
(a) Counties and cities must
						periodically take legislative action to review and, if needed, revise their
						comprehensive plans and development regulations to ensure the plan and
						regulations comply with the requirements of the act. This review and revision,
						required under RCW 36.70A.-130(1), is referred to in this section as the
						periodic update.
(b) Deadlines for
						periodic update. Comprehensive plans and development regulations are subject to
						periodic update on a schedule established in
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(5).
(i) Deadlines for completion of periodic
						review are as follows:
Table WAC 365-196-610.1
Deadlines for Completion of Periodic Review 2015 -
							2018
Update must be complete by June 30 of:
Affected counties and the cities within:
2015/2023
King, Pierce, Snohomish
2016/2024
Clallam, Clark, Island, Jefferson, Kit-sap,
										Mason, San Juan, Skagit, Thurston, Whatcom
2017/2025
Benton, Chelan, Cowlitz, Douglas,
										Kit-titas, Lewis, Skamania, Spokane, Yakima
2018/2026
Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Franklin,
										Garfield, Grant, Grays Harbor, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pacific, Pend
										Oreille, Stevens, Wahkiakum, Walla Walla, Whitman
(ii)
						Certain smaller, slower-growing counties and cities may take up to an
						additional two years to complete the update.
(A) The eligibility of a county for the
						two-year extension does not affect the eligibility of the cities within the
						county.
(B) A county is eligible if
						it has a population of less than fifty thousand and a growth rate of less than
						seventeen percent.
(C) A city is
						eligible if it has a population of less than five thousand, and either a growth
						rate of less than seventeen percent or a total population growth of less than
						one hundred persons.
(D) Growth
						rates are measured using the ten-year period preceding the due date listed in
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(5).
(E) If a city or county qualifies for the
						extension on the statutory due date, they remain eligible for the entire
						extension period, even if they no longer meet the criteria due to population
						growth.
(c)
						Taking legislative action.
(i) The periodic
						update must be accomplished through legislative action. Legislative action
						means the adoption of a resolution or ordinance following notice and a public
						hearing including, at a minimum, a finding that a review and evaluation has
						occurred and identifying the revisions made, or that a revision was not needed
						and the reasons therefore.
(ii)
						Legislative action includes two components. It includes a review of the
						comprehensive plan and development regulations and it includes the adoption of
						any amendments necessary to bring the comprehensive plan and development
						regulations into compliance with the requirements of the act.
(d) What must be reviewed.
(i) Counties and cities that plan under
						RCW
						 36.70A.040 must review and, if needed, revise
						their comprehensive plans and development regulations for compliance with the
						act. This includes the critical areas ordinance.
(ii) Counties and cities that do not plan
						under RCW
						 36.70A.040 must review and, if needed, revise
						their resource lands designations and their development regulations designating
						and protecting critical areas.
(iii) Counties participating in the voluntary
						stewardship program must review and, if needed, revise their development
						regulations not governed by the voluntary stewardship program, except as
						provided in
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(8).
(e) The required scope of review.
						The purpose of the review is to determine if revisions are needed to bring the
						comprehensive plan and development regulation into compliance with the
						requirements of the act. The update process provides the method for bringing
						plans into compliance with the requirements of the act that have been added or
						changed since the last update and for responding to changes in land use and in
						population growth. This review is necessary so that comprehensive plans are not
						allowed to fall out of compliance with the act over time through inaction. This
						review must include at least the following:
(i) Consideration of the critical areas
						ordinance;
(ii) Analysis of urban
						growth area review required by
						RCW
						 36.70A.130(3) (see WAC
						365-196-310);
(iii) Review of mineral resource lands
						designations and mineral resource lands development regulations adopted
						pursuant to
						RCW
						 36.70A.040 and
						36.70A.060; and
(iv) Changes to the act or other applicable
						laws since the last review that have not been addressed in the comprehensive
						plan and development regulations.