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                                  HOUSE BILL 2804

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By Representatives Haugen, Scott, Forner, Ferguson, Zellinsky, Wood, Beck, Paris and Betrozoff

Read first time 01/28/92.  Referred to Committee on Local Government.Making furtherance of the goals of the growth management act an objective of boundary review boards.

     AN ACT Relating to local government boundary changes; and amending RCW 36.93.180.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 36.93.180 and 1989 c 84 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

     The decisions of the boundary review board shall attempt to achieve the following objectives:

     (1) Preservation of natural neighborhoods and communities;

     (2) Use of physical boundaries, including but not limited to bodies of water, highways, and land contours;

     (3) Creation and preservation of logical service areas;

     (4) Prevention of abnormally irregular boundaries;

     (5) Discouragement of multiple incorporations of small cities and encouragement of incorporation of cities in excess of ten thousand population in heavily populated urban areas;

     (6) Dissolution of inactive special purpose districts;

     (7) Adjustment of impractical boundaries;

     (8) Incorporation as cities or towns or annexation to cities or towns of unincorporated areas which are urban in character; ((and))

     (9) Protection of agricultural and rural lands which are designated for long term productive agricultural and resource use by a comprehensive plan adopted by the county legislative authority; and

(10) Furtherance of the goals and requirements of chapter 36.70A RCW.