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                         SENATE BILL 5748

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Senators McAuliffe, Horn, Shin, Winsley, Oke, Haugen, Kohl‑Welles and Kastama; by request of The Blue Ribbon Commission on Transportation

Read first time 02/01/2001.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Integrating transportation and land use planning.

    AN ACT Relating to integration of transportation and land use planning; and amending RCW 35.63.060 and 35A.63.060.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 35.63.060 and 1988 c 127 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    The commission may act as the research and fact finding agency of the municipality.  To that end it may make such surveys, analyses, researches and reports as are generally authorized or requested by its council or board, or by the state with the approval of its council or board.  The commission, upon such request or authority may also:

    (1) Make inquiries, investigations, and surveys concerning the resources of the county, including but not limited to the potential for solar energy development and alternative means to encourage and protect access to direct sunlight for solar energy systems;

    (2) Assemble and analyze the data thus obtained and formulate plans for the conservation of such resources and the systematic utilization and development thereof;

    (3) Make recommendations from time to time as to the best methods of such conservation, utilization, and development;

    (4) Cooperate with other commissions and with other public agencies of the municipality, state and United States in such planning, conservation, and development; and

    (5) In particular cooperate with and aid the state within its territorial limits in the preparation of the state master plan provided for in RCW 43.21A.350 and in advance planning of public works programs.

In carrying out its powers and duties, the commission should demonstrate how land use planning is integrated with transportation planning.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 35A.63.060 and 1967 ex.s. c 119 s 35A.63.060 are each amended to read as follows:

    Every code city, by ordinance, shall direct the planning agency to prepare a comprehensive plan for anticipating and influencing the orderly and coordinated development of land and building uses of the code city and its environs.  The comprehensive plan may be prepared as a whole or in successive parts.  The plan should integrate transportation and land use planning.

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