BILL · 2005–06 SESSION

HB 2620: Development regulations

Adjusting the development regulations review by counties with low population densities.

Summary

Allows counties with fewer than 100 persons per square mile to opt out of Growth Management Act (GMA) requirements pertaining to reviews and revisions of comprehensive plans and development regulations.
Allows cities within these qualifying counties to exercise the same exemption option.
Specifies that counties exercising the exemption option, and the cities within these counties, must comply with prescribed review and revision requirements if the county population density subsequently equals 100 or more persons per square mile.
Establishes separate provisions requiring exempting counties, and the cities within those counties, to review and revise their comprehensive plans and development regulations, and policies and development regulations regarding critical areas and natural resource lands, when certain criteria are met.
Removes counties with fewer than 100 persons per square mile, and the cities within those counties, from the recurring comprehensive plan and development regulations review schedule.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to development regulations review by counties with low population densities;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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