Regulatory Reform Provisions Adopted by Cities, Towns, and Counties in Washington State
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ALGONA - Ordinance No. 827 allows for optional consolidated permit processing, passed 3-97. (PL 2.0500)
ANACORTES - Ordinance No. 1419 adopts rules for appeals of land use administrative decisions, passed 8-96. (PL 2.0500)
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND
Ordinance No. 96-14. Passed 4-96. (PL 2.1122);
Ordinance No. 96-03. Passed 2-96. (PL 2.0500) REGULATORY REFORM - ESHB 1724 - SITE PLAN AND DESIGN REVIEW (PL 2.0500);
Ordinance No. 96-20, passed 6-96. REGULATORY REFORM - ESHB 1724 - SITE PLAN AND DESIGN REVIEW - (PL 2.0500).
BATTLE GROUND - Ordinance No 96-801 amends procedural and substantive requirements for the approval of development permit applications. Passed 4-96. (PL 2.0500)
Ordinance No. 99-008 amends land use permit procedures, passed 4-99 (PL 2.0500)
BELLEVUE
Ordinance No. 4819 changes citations from board of adjustment to hearings examiner, passed 11-95;
Ordinance 4822 adopts new transportation development code; improves clarity of regulatory standards, passed 11-95 ENVIRONMENTAL PROCEDURES;
Ordinance No. 4817. Passed 11-95. - TRANSPORTATION - TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT CODE;
Ordinance No. 4822 adopts a new transportation development code; regulatory reform clarification, passed 11-95;
Ordinance No. 4972 amends procedural provisions contained in Title 20, passed 3-97;
Ordinance No. 4973 modifies Ordinance No. 4816 to preserve the approval/disapproval authority of the Community Councils, passed 3-97;
Ordinance No. 4978 corrections in the procedures sections of the city code and centralization of appeals from city administrative decisions, passed 3-97;
Ordinance No. 4979 clean up of errors and omissions, passed 3-97 (PL 2.0500)
BELLINGHAM - Ordinance No. 10719 amends land use development ordinance, subdivision ordinance, landmark preservation and shorelines; adds new administrative title 21. Passed 3-96. (PL 2.0500)
BLAINE - Ordinance No. 96-2250 re coordination of development procedures. Passed 4-96. (PL 2.0500)
BOTHELL - Ordinance No. 1691, passed 4-97. ADMINISTRATION OF DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS ADOPTED - (PL 2.0500)
BREMERTON - Ordinance No. 639 re administration of development regulations. Passed 6-96. (PL 2.1110)
BREWSTER - Ordinance No. 639 administration of developmentregulations . Passed 6-96. (PL 2.1110)
BURIEN
Ordinance No. 168 expands and modifies its interim environmental procedures; readopts King County Code Ch. 20.44, entitled "County Environmental Procedures." Passed 12-95;
Ordinance No. 173 adopts new administrative procedures for processing project permit applications, passed 7-96. (PL 2.0500)
BURLINGTON - ESHB 1724 - Ordinance No. 1318 amends zoning code, passed 4-96. (PL 2.0500)
CASHMERE - Ordinance No. 878 enacts a new title 14, development code administration, passed 6-96. (PL 2.1110)
CHENEY - Ordinance No. Q-95 provides for local project review for land use and development, passed 2-97. REGULATORY REFORM - ESHB 1724 (PL 2.0500)
CLARK COUNTY - ESHB 1724 - DEVELOPMENT PROCEDURES Code, Title 18 draft. Dated 10-96. (PL 2.0500)
CLYDE HILL
Ordinance No. 741 short plats, passed 3-96;
Ordinance No. 742 zoning code, passed 5-96;
Ordinance No. 743 permit applications, passed 5-96. (PL 2.0500)
DES MOINES - Ordinance No. 1174 adds "Land Use Review Procedures," passed 11-96. (PL 2.0500)
EAST WENATCHEE - Ordinance No. 96-5, adopts administrative procedures for processing project permit applications, passed 2-96. (PL 2.0500)
EDGEWOOD
Ordinance No. 97-0071 revises the process for reviewing planning and land use applications, passed 2-97;
Ordinance No. 97-0069 establishes interim environmental review process, passed 3-97. (PL 2.0500)
Ordinance No. 01-0170 amends the Edgewood Municipal Code to revise references to SEPA. Passed 4-01. (PL 2.0500)
EDMONDS
Ordinance No. 3078 amends the development code; adopts new administrative procedures for the processing of project permit applications Passed 3-96 - ESHB 1724 - DEVELOPMENT CODE AMENDMENTS;
Ordinance No. 3099 amends regulatory reform hearing date, passed 5-96;
Ordinance No. 3112, passed 9-96 (PL 2.0500)
ELLENSBURG - Ordinance No. 4028 administration of land use permits, passed 5-96. (PL 2.0500)
EVERSON - Ordinance No. 498 adds title 16.01 to Administration of Development Regulations, passed 4-96. (PL 2.0500)
FERNDALE
Municipal Code, Title 14 development review and application procedures adopted by Ordinance No. 1112.
Ordinance No. 1113 Buildings and construction;
Ordinance No. 1114 Environment;
Ordinance No. 1115 Subdivisions;
Ordinance No, 1116 Administration and enforcement of zoning regulations. Passed 4-96. (PL 2.0500)
FIFE
Ordinance No. 1227 adoption of new administration procedures for project permit processing. Passed 3-96;
Ordinance No. 1145 amends Ordinance No. 1227, passed 3-97. (PL 2.0500)
FIRCREST
Ordinance No. 1120 new administrative procedures for the processing of project permit applications, passed 4-96. (PL 2.1110);
Ordinance No. 1122 subdivisions, passed 4-96. (PL 7.2000);
Ordinance No. 1145 amends Ordinance No. 1120, passed 3-97. (PL 2.0500)
Ordinance No. 1245 relates to administrative procedures for processing project permit applications. Passed 3-00. (PL 2.0500)
FRIDAY HARBOR
Ordinance No. 1052 implements regulatory reform requirements of Ch. 30.70B RCW, passed 12-97. (PL 2.0500);
Ordinance No. 1119 repeals Ordinance No. 1052 and implements the regulatory reform requirements of Ch. 36.70B RCW, passed 10-99. (PL 2.0500)
GIG HARBOR - ESHB 1724 - Ordinance No. 711 amending land use procedures, subdivisions, and SEPA procedures. Dated 1-96. (PL 2.0500);
Ordinance No. 721 - relates to the city's environmental policy ordinance and administrative procedures under SEPA, passed 5-96;
Ordinance No. 726 - Wetlands, passed 6-96;
Ordinance No. 727 adopts critical area permit processing consistent with regulatory reform, passed 6-96. (PL 2.0500)
GOLD BAR - Ordinance No. 456 adopts new administrative procedures for the processing of development permit applications, passed 11-97 (PL 2.0500)
HUNTS POINT - Ordinance No. 314 allows for optional consolidated permit processing; consolidated environmental review with permit processing; provides open record hearings; eliminates the requirement for a separate open record public hearing before the planning commission, passed 3-96. (PL 2.0500)
INDEX Ordinance No. 328 provides procedures for land use permits, passed 8-97. (PL 2.0500)
KENNEWICK - Ordinance No. 3644 Draft amending SEPA regulations. (PL 2.0500)
KING COUNTY - Ordinance No. 12196 implements ESHB 1724 relating to permitting; providing new permit processes and administrative appeals, approval timelines, notice requirements, judicial reive, SEPA/GMA integration through use of existing rules, passed 3-96. (PL 2.0500)
KIRKLAND - Ordinance No. 3528 amends zoning code;
Ordinance No. 3529 creates a new title 20 entitled "Development Projects;"
Ordinance No. 3530 amends SEPA procedures;
Ordinance No. 3531 amends shoreline administration and procedures;
Ordinance No. 3532 amends judicial review of land use decisions under title 22. Passed 4-96. ESHB 1724 - (PL 2.0500)
LA CONNER - Ordinance No. 743 revises the project permit review process. Passed 3-99 (PL 2.0500)
LACEY - Draft revisions to zoning, subdivision and environmental policy codes. Dated 4-96. ESHB 1724 - (PL 2.0500)
LANGLEY - Ordinance No. 714. Passed 4-96. - ESHB 1724 - ENVIRONMENT - PROJECT REVIEW - ZONING ADMINISTRATION (PL 2.0500)
LEAVENWORTH
Ordinance No. 1016 consolidates procedural actions for development activities, passed 4-96;
Ordinance No. 1052, passed 7-97. (PL 2.0500)
LYNNWOOD
Ordinance No. 2071 - application processing and review. ESHB 1724;
Ordinance No. 2072 - administration of development regulations and permit requirements for permits administered by the department of public works;
Ordinance No. 2073 - administrative appeals of actions or decisions under SEPA;
Ordinance No. 2076 - amends provisions weekend work approval, street, water, sewer, building and grading, sensitive areas relating to permit requirements and application processes for construction and development;
Ordinance No. 2076 - powers of hearing examiner. Passed 3-96. (PL 2.0500)
MARYSVILLE - Ordinance No. 2079 adds title 15, Development Code Administration. Passed 7-96. (PL 2.1110)
MEDICAL LAKE - Ordinance No. 817 provides rules for land use permits under Titles 15, 16, 17 and to any regulation implementing these provisions or any other ordinance or law. Passed 3-96. (PL 2.0500)
MESA Ordinance No. 96-06 combines and consolidates application review and approval processes of applications involving land use; complies with state guidelines to combine, expedite, and integrate development and environmental reviews, passed 11-96. (PL 2.0500)
MILL CREEK - Ordinance No. 96-379. Passed 4-96. ESHB 1724 - DEVELOPMENT CODE ADMINISTRATION - (PL 2.1100)
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE
Ordinance No. 2108 - planning commission procedures;
Ordinance No. 2109 - removal of trees;
Ordinance No. 2110 - board of adjustment;
Ordinance No. 2111 - subdivision procedures - definition of calendar days;
Ordinance No. 2112 - SEPA appeals;
Ordinance No. 2113 - binding site plan;
Ordinance No. 2114 - storm drainage and erosion control plans;
Ordinance No. 2115 - mobile home parks; Ordinance No. 2116 - public hearings, site postings, and administrative review of smaller scale site plans;
Ordinance No. 2117 - land use policy and project development procedure ordinance. Passed 4-96. (PL 2.0500)
MUKILTEO Ordinance No. 870 - PROJECT PERMIT REVIEW PROCESS - Passed 3-96. (PL 2.1110)
NACHES - Ordinance No. 503 relating to land use and development regulations; establishes a process to combine environmental review with project review; establishes an integrated and consolidated project review process; establishes a process for public notice of land use development applications and decisions, passed 7-99 DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATIONS (PL 2.0500)
NEWCASTLE Ordinance No. 97-153adds new title "Administrative Procedures" to Municipal Code, passed 9-97 (PL 2.0500)
NOOKSACK - Ordinance No. 440 administration of development regulations. Passed 5-96. (PL 2.1110)
OAK HARBOR - Ordinance No. 1040 adds a new chapter 18.20 to Title 18 entitled "Permit Process." Passed 4-96. PERMIT PROCESS - (PL 2.1110)
OLYMPIA
Ordinance No. 5570 relates to public services, specifically domestic water and sewer service, environmental policy, critical areas, building and construction, impact fees, land clearing, tree protection and replacement, preliminary plats, short plats, large lot plats, zoning and related types of variances, design review, limited zones, site plan review, townhouses, zoning code administration, vesting of development rights, appeals, public notification, hearing examiner, neighborhood association recognition and notification, conforming the OMC to the provisions of the Regulatory Reform Act by providing a development project review process which enforces the city's comprehensive plan and integrates environmental review within the frame of uniform administrative review. Passed 12-95.
Ordinance No. 5594 relates to land use project permit applications; clarifies descrepancies contained in Ordinance No. 5570; enacts a new chapter 18.77 - Application Content Lists. Passed 2-96. (PL 2.0500)
OROVILLE - Ordinance No. 613 relating to regulartory reform and the city's zoning ordinance. Passed 6/99. (PL 2.0500)
PACIFIC COUNTY - Ordinance No. 145B pertains to procedures for processing land use development applications - PERMIT PROCESS - REGULATORY REFORM. Passed 8-99 (PL 2.0500)
PIERCE COUNTY - Ordinance No. 96-19S adopts title 18, development regulations. Passed 7-96. (PL 2.0500)
PIERCE COUNTY - Ordinance No. 97-84 reorganizes Land Use Regulatory Provisions in the Pierce County Code. Passed 2-98. (PL 2.0500)
PORT ANGELES
Ordinance No. 2911 - DEVELOPMENT PERMIT PROCESS - Passed 3-96.
Ordinance No. 2935 clarifies the types of development applications to which the consolidated development permit process applies, passed 11-96 (PL 2.1110)
POULSBO
Ordinance No. 96-13 adopts legislative finding for new administrative procedures for the processing of permit applications, passed 6-96;
Ordinance No. 96-11 provides interim standards for project permit application procedures, passed 4-96;
Ordinance No. 96-22 extends ordinance No. 96-11 for six months, passed 10-96;
Ordinance No. 97-12 makes interim project permit application procedures permanent, passed 3-97. (PL 2.0500)
PUYALLUP
Ordinance No. 2472 relates to Shoreline Master Program;
Ordinance No. 2474relates to shoreline master program;
Ordinance No. 2475 amends title 2, Administration and Personnel (re: Planning Commission and Hearing Examiner);
Ordinance No. 2476 relates to the comprehensive plan;
Ordinance No. 2477relates to plats and subdivisions;
Ordinance No. 2478 relates to the zoning code;
Ordinance No. 2479 relates to environment, passed 4-96;
Ordinance No. 2490 relates to the shorelines master program, passed 9-96. (PL 2.0500)
PRESCOTT - Ordinance No. 340 re development code administration procedures. Passed 4-96. (PL 2.1110)
REDMOND - Ordinance No.1883. Passed 4-96. - DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS - PROJECT PERMIT APPLICATION PROCEDURES (PL 2.1100)
RENTON - Ordinance No.4587 amends building regulations and zoning code; adds Ch. 36 entitled "Renton Regulatory Reform Ordinance." Passed 3-96. (PL 2.0500)
RUSTON, WA Ordinance No. 990 adopts new administrative procedures for processing of project permit applications, passed 7-97. (PL 2.0500)
SEATAC
Ordinance No. 96-1008. - DEVELOPMENT CODE ADMINISTRATION - Passed 4-96;
Ordinance No. 96-1019 amends Ordinance No. 96-1008, passed 8-96.(PL 2.0500);
Ordinance No. 99-1009 affirms consistancy between city's development regulations and comprehensive plan. Passed 3-99. (PL 2.0500)
SEATTLE
Ordinance No. 118012. Passed 2-96. WORK PROGRAM (PL 2.0500);
Resolution No. 29316 - directs further evaluation measures to implement regulatory reform; calls for submittal of a work program to Council by April 25, 1996; directs that executive shall develop and propose amendments to SMC as may be needed to implement regulatory reform. Passed 3-96;
Resolution No. 29315 adopts rules for quasi-judicial proceedings before the city council; ESHB 1724 amendments. Passed 3-96. (G 4.2500);
Ordinance No. 118181 further implements and clarifies the effects of Ch. 347 Laws of 1995 and corrects errors and omissions in prior implementation, passed 6-96. (PL 2.0500)
SHORELINE
Ordinance No. 96 provides for administrative procedures for permit review, land use hearing and appeals. Passed 6-96;
Ordinance No. 126 amends Ordinance No. 96 to clarify administrative procedures permit review, land use hearings and appeals, passed 4-97. (PL 2.0500)
SNOHOMISH Ordinance No. 1803 adopts Title 14, Development Code Administration, passed 5-96. (PL 2.0500)
SNOHOMISH COUNTY
Ordinance No. 96-003 amends SCC and adds a new chapter 32.50 - permit processing. Passed 2-96;
Ordinance No. 96-032 provides procedures for amending and revising the GMA comprehensive plan and development regulations, passed 6-96. (PL 2.1110)
SNOQUALMIE - Ordinance No. 768 adds development review chapter to the municipal code and establishes a work program for amendment of other development regulations, passed 9-96. (PL 2.0500)
SOAP LAKE - Ordinance No. 930 combines and consolidates the application, review and approval processes for land development permits. Passed 5-00 REGULATORY REFORM (PL 2.0500)
SPOKANE - Ordinance No. C-32260 amends land use regulatory & administrative procedures. Passed 10-98. (PL 2.0500)
SUMNER
Ordinance No. 1749 adopts an interim land use permit process. Passed 4-96. (PL 2.0500);
Ordinance No. 1763 adopts subdivision code in compliance with ESHB 1724. Passed 6-96. (PL 7.2000)
TACOMA
Ordinance No. 25852 creates new land use permit procedures;
Ordinance No. 25856 relates to the environmental code and SEPA. Passed 2-96. (PL 2.0500)
Ordinance No. 26585 relates to land use permit procedures. Passed 3-00. (PL 2.0500)
Ordinance No. 26843 relates to land use permit procedures and the Hearing Examiner. Passed 9-01. (PL 2.0500)
TIETON - Ordinance No. 414 establishes uniform procedures for the review and processing of zoning, subdivision, and environmental permit applications, passed 6-97. (PL 2.0500)
TOPPENISH - Ordinance No. 99-8 adopts development code administration procedures. Passed 3-99 (PL 2.0500)
TUKWILA - Ordinance No. 1768 provides for standardized procedures for the submittal, review and issuance of land use permits, passed 7-96. (PL 2.0500)
TUMWATER - Ordinance No. O96-004 provides for Ch. 14.02 , Project Permit Processing/Applications as part of the newly enacted Title 14, "Development Code Administration. Passed 4-96. (PL 2.1110)
VANCOUVER - Ordinance No. M-3270 provides rules and regulations for processing of land use project permits applications; interim ordinance, passed 11-96 (Pl 2.0500)
WALLA WALLA - Ordinance No 96-12 provides for a new Title 22, "Administration of Development Regulations." Passed 3-96. (PL 2.1110)
WAPATO - Ordinance No. 1063 establishes regulations for land use and development project review. New chapter entitled, "Local Project Review." Passed 6-99 (PL 2.0500)
WHATCOM COUNTY - Ordinance No. 96-031 adopts administrative procedures for processing project permit applications. Passed 7-96 (PL 2.0500)
WINLOCK - Ordinance No. 756 adopts new administrative procedures for the procesing of project permit applications. Passed 3-96. (PL 2.1110)
WOODLAND - Ordinance No. 817 - adds new Title 19, Development Code Administration. Passed 6-96. (PL 2.1100)
WOODWAY - Ordinance No. 319 adopts land use permit procedures. Passed 7-96. (PL 2.1110)
YAKIMA. - Ordinance No. 14-1998 revises Title 16B of Yakima County Code, "Project Permit Administration," passed 10-98 (PL 2.0500)
YAKIMA COUNTY - Project Permit Administration - Title 16B (as of 1/1/97)
YELM, WA - Ordinance No. 597 amends environment, building and construction, subdivisions, and zoning, passed 2-97. (PL 2.0500)