BILL REQ. #: H-2300.1
| State of Washington | 58th Legislature | 2003 Regular Session |
READ FIRST TIME 03/05/03.
AN ACT Relating to the integration of shoreline management policies with the growth management act; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 (1) The legislature finds that the final
decision and order issued in Everett Shorelines Coalition v. City of
Everett and Washington State Department Of Ecology, Case No. 02-3-0009c, issued by the central Puget Sound growth management hearings
board was a case of first impression for interpreting the integration
of the shoreline management act into the growth management act, and
that the board considered the appeal and issued its final order and
decision without the benefit of shorelines guidelines to provide
guidance on the implementation of the shoreline management act and the
adoption of shoreline master programs.
(2) This act is intended to affirm the legislature's intent that
the shoreline management act be implemented in accordance with
decisions of the shoreline hearings board and the Washington courts
prior to the integration of the shoreline management act into the
growth management act as provided by RCW 36.70A.480. Specifically, it
is the intent of the legislature that:
(a) The goals and policies of the shoreline management act, RCW
90.58.020, be read, interpreted, applied, and implemented as a whole;
(b) The goals of the growth management act, including the goals and
policies of the shoreline management act set forth in RCW 36.70A.020
and 36.70A.480, continue to be listed without priority; and
(c) Shorelines of statewide significance may include critical areas
as designated by RCW 36.70A.172, but that shorelines of statewide
significance are not critical areas simply because they are shorelines
of statewide significance.