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HOUSE BILL 3061
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State of Washington 56th Legislature 2000 Regular Session
By Representatives Lantz, Bush, Keiser, Campbell and Haigh
Read first time 01/26/2000. Referred to Committee on Local Government.
AN ACT Relating to public facility siting and planning; adding a new section to chapter 36.70A RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that current processes for the siting and operation of major regional public facilities often fail to adequately address regional and localized impacts and benefits of such facilities. Throughout the state there are proposals for siting major public facilities in which surrounding neighborhoods and communities will be disproportionately impacted while the benefits of the facility are provided to the larger region or to the entire state. These facilities include major transportation facilities such as highways, bridges, airports, and rail lines, and other nontransportation facilities such as prisons and landfills. The legislature also finds that although the growth management act provides procedures for establishing county-wide policies for coordinated planning of such facilities, those procedures do not include all public entities that provide such facilities and do not provide sufficient guidance to local jurisdictions to ensure consideration and mitigation of impacts to surrounding communities and participation in siting processes by those communities.
Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature to ensure that these considerations are incorporated into the county-wide planning policies required under the growth management act, and to provide sufficient authority so that siting decisions and mitigation measures adopted through using such policies may be fully implemented.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 36.70A RCW to read as follows:
Recognizing that RCW 36.70A.103 requires state agencies to comply with local comprehensive plans and development regulations, that planning for public facilities and mitigating impacts from these public facilities are cornerstones of this chapter, the requirement that county-wide planning policies must address the siting of public capital facilities of a state-wide significance, and the importance of siting essential public facilities recognized under RCW 36.70A.200, it is the policy of the state that state agencies must mitigate impacts to communities arising from the siting or expansion of state capital facilities of state-wide significance, including transportation facilities of state-wide significance that are provided under chapter 47.46 RCW. These mitigation requirements include, but are not limited to, impacts to county, city, and town roads and streets, noise impacts, life-style impacts of affected communities, and view impacts. The mitigation of these impacts is declared to be part of the costs of the state capital facilities of state-wide significance and shall be mitigated from moneys used to finance the state capital facilities of state-wide significance.
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