HB 1950-S - DIGEST

(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 3/18/97)

     Provides that a proposed city or town in a county that plans under RCW 36.70A.040 may not include any area located outside of an urban growth area designated under RCW 36.70A.110, unless the area meets the following requirements:  (1) At least twenty-five percent of the boundaries of the area proposed to be incorporated are coterminous with a portion of the boundaries of an urban growth area;

     (2) the area has a population of at least five thousand;

     (3) the area has a density of at least five hundred persons per square mile; and

     (4) the area is already characterized by significant industrial development.

     Applies also to an area that is a peninsula that is surrounded on all sides with salt water and the Canadian border.