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SENATE BILL 5498
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Senators Niemi, Haugen, Wojahn and Winsley
Read first time 02/01/93. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
AN ACT Relating to essential public facilities; and amending RCW 36.70A.200.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 36.70A.200 and 1991 sp.s. c 32 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The comprehensive plan of each county and
city that is planning under this chapter shall include a process for
identifying and siting essential public facilities. Essential public
facilities ((include)) are those that are critical for the protection
of the public health and safety or those public facilities that are
typically difficult to site, such as airports, state education facilities and
state or regional transportation facilities, state and local correctional
facilities, and solid waste handling facilities((, and in-patient)).
Essential public facilities may also include facilities owned, operated,
or licensed by the state that are essential for the operation of state programs,
including substance abuse facilities, mental health facilities, and group
homes.
(2) The office of financial management shall
maintain a list of those types of essential ((state)) public
facilities owned, operated, or licensed by the state that are required
or likely to be built or needed by a state agency for its programs
within the next six years. The office of financial management may at any time
add facilities to the list. Public facilities owned, operated, or licensed
by the state that are not critical to the protection of public health and
safety or not typically difficult to site shall not be listed by the office of
financial management as essential public facilities.
(3) No local comprehensive plan or development regulation may preclude the siting of essential public facilities.
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