CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1458

Chapter 322, Laws of 2001

57th Legislature

2001 Regular Legislative Session

LAND USE PROJECT PERMIT APPLICATIONS--TIMELINE

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/22/01

Passed by the House April 17, 2001

Yeas 88 Nays 5

FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 11, 2001

Yeas 47 Nays 1

CERTIFICATE

We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1458 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

CYNTHIA ZEHNDER

Chief Clerk

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

Chief Clerk

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

Approved May 15, 2001

FILED

May 15, 2001 - 2:46 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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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 House Committee on Local Government & Housing (originally sponsored by Representatives Edwards, Mulliken, Hatfield, DeBolt, Mielke, Edmonds and Rockefeller)

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.