The legislature finds that:

(1) Many cities have planned under the growth management act, chapter 36.70A RCW, and designated and zoned lands for industrial and manufacturing use;

(2) The industrial and manufacturing industries provide family living wage jobs;

(3) In the current economic climate the creation of additional family living wage jobs is essential;

(4) It is critical that Washington state promote its continued strength in the fields of aerospace, technology, biomedical, and other industries that will provide family wage job growth; and

(5) Planning for industrial and manufacturing use is inadequate to attract new industry and manufacturing and an incentive should be created to stimulate the development of new industrial and manufacturing uses in the existing inventory of lands zoned for industrial and manufacturing use in targeted urban areas through a tax incentive as provided by this chapter.

[2015 1st sp.s. c 9 § 1.]