Planning for affordable housing under the growth management act.
Summary
Requires cities and counties planning under the Growth Management Act to consider single-family residences such as detached dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes in urban growth areas (UGAs) in the housing element of the comprehensive plan, and to consider housing locations in relation to employment locations when making provisions to meet the needs of all economic segments of the community.
Requires that cities and counties that do not plan for each specified housing type, including single-family residences such as detached dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes in a UGA, to explain how the county as a whole and the cities within the county will meet existing and projected housing needs.
Allows counties and cities outside of Clark, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, Thurston, and Whatcom counties to exempt themselves from requirements related to considering and planning for duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes within a UGA if the county or city adopts findings showing that the infrastructure within the UGA cannot support such development or that infrastructure to support the development is unlikely to be built within the two-year planning period.
Requires countywide planning policies to be updated at least 14 months before the deadline to update a comprehensive plan, and to address how counties and cities will jointly meet the land use element requirements.
From the Engrossed Substitute House Bill Analysis 2022 (ESHB 1232), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not passDid not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate