BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

SB 6274: Street standards

Concerning street standards and frontage improvement requirements.

Summary

Requires a county or city fully planning under the Growth Management Act (GMA) to identify infrastructure barriers that may constrain the feasibility of housing development, including public infrastructure and frontage improvement requirements under the housing element of the comprehensive plan.
Requires a county or city fully planning under the GMA to evaluate whether local street, frontage, and right-of-way standards are consistent with adopted land use and housing goals under the transportation element of the comprehensive plan.
Requires counties and cities to periodically review and, if necessary, revise street standards, frontage improvement requirements, and related public works design standards a s part of the periodic review and revision of comprehensive plans and development regulations.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 6274), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor

AN ACT Relating to street standards and frontage improvement requirements;

No recorded floor votes.

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

SB 6274 (2023–24) School resource officers · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6274 (2019–20) Psychiatric patient safety · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6274 (2017–18) Apprenticeships/foster, etc. · Enacted · Chapter 232, Laws of 2018
SB 6274 (2015–16) Columbia river endorsement · Enacted · Chapter 223, Laws of 2016
SB 6274 (2013–14) St. agency tortious conduct · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 6274 (2011–12) Firearms and ammunition · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6274 (2009–10) Trail interactions work grp · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 6274 (2007–08) Six inch freeboard exception · Did not pass · died in committee