Affirming that cities and counties planning under chapter 36.70A RCW retain the ability to accommodate state projected population growth within urban growth areas without requiring a minimum residential density.
Summary
Grants qualifying rural counties and the cities within those counties that are planning under the Growth Management Act discretion to make choices about appropriate urban residential densities within urban growth areas (UGAs).
Specifies that these qualifying rural counties and cities must not be required to establish a uniform minimum residential density that is applicable to each property within a UGA.
Provides that a qualifying rural county is a county with a population density of less than 100 persons per square mile or a county smaller than 225 square miles.
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AN ACT Relating to affirming that cities and counties planning under chapter 36.70A RCW retain the ability to accommodate state projected population growth within urban growth areas without requiring a minimum residential density;