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ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1458
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 2001 Regular Session
State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001
Regular Session
By
READ FIRST TIME 02/27/01.
AN ACT Relating to establishing
a timeline for final decisions on land use project permit applications; and
amending RCW 36.70B.080.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 36.70B.080 and 1995
c 347 s 410 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Development
regulations adopted pursuant to RCW 36.70A.040 shall establish time periods for
local government actions on specific project permit applications and provide
timely and predictable procedures to determine whether a completed project
permit application meets the requirements of those development regulations. The
time periods for local government actions on specific complete project permit
applications or project types should not exceed one hundred twenty days, unless
the local government makes written findings that a specified amount of
additional time is needed for processing of specific complete project permit
applications or project types.
Such development
regulations shall specify the contents of a completed project permit
application necessary for the application of such time periods and procedures.
(2)(a) Counties
subject to the requirements of RCW 36.70A.215 and the cities within those
counties that have populations of at least twenty thousand shall identify the
types of project permit applications for which decisions are issued according
to the provisions of this chapter. For each type of project permit application
identified, these counties and cities shall establish a deadline for issuing a
notice of final decision as required by subsection (1) of this section and
minimum requirements for applications to be deemed complete under RCW
36.70B.070 as required by subsection (1) of this section. Counties and cities
subject to the requirements of this subsection also shall, through September 1,
2003, prepare at least two annual performance reports that include, at a
minimum, the following information for each type of project permit application:
(i) Total number of complete
applications received during the year;
(ii) Number of
complete applications received during the year for which a notice of final
decision was issued before the deadline established under this subsection;
(iii) Number of
applications received during the year for which a notice of final decision was
issued after the deadline established under this subsection;
(iv) Number of
applications received during the year for which an extension of time was
mutually agreed upon by the applicant and the county or city; and
(v) Variance of
actual performance, excluding applications for which mutually agreed time
extensions have occurred, to the deadline established under this subsection
during the year.
(b) Until July 1,
2003, counties and cities subject to the requirements of this subsection shall
provide notice of and access to the annual performance reports required by this
subsection through the county's or city's web site. If a county or city
subject to the requirements of this subsection does not maintain a web site,
notice of the report shall be given by reasonable methods, including but not
limited to those methods specified in RCW 36.70B.110(4).
(3)
Nothing in this section prohibits a county or city from extending a deadline
for issuing a decision for a specific project permit application for any
reasonable period of time mutually agreed upon by the applicant and the local
government.
