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2017 Senate Bill 5790: Concerning the economic development element of the growth management act
Introduced by Sen. Shelly Short (Addy) (R) on February 10, 2017
Referred to the Senate Local Government Committee on February 10, 2017
Substitute offered in the Senate on February 16, 2017
Encourages jurisdictions planning under the Growth Management Act (GMA) to evaluate economic growth and adopt comprehensive plans and development regulations that promote economic development.
Referred to the Senate Rules Committee on February 17, 2017
Received in the House on February 23, 2017
Referred to the House Environment Committee on February 23, 2017
Amendment offered in the House on March 28, 2017
Eliminates job creation and economic development as techniques to accommodate rural densities and uses that counties may provide for as part of the rural element of GMA comprehensive plans. Restores the prohibition on county accommodation of rural densities and uses that are characterized by urban growth. Adds manufacturing, natural resource, and other locally significant economic sectors whose strengths and weaknesses may be summarized as part of GMA economic development elements.
Referred to the House Rules Committee on April 7, 2017
Amendment offered by Rep. Jacquelin Maycumber (Ferry) (R) on April 12, 2017
Authorizes county comprehensive plan rural elements under the Growth Management Act (GMA) to use innovative techniques to accommodate rural economic advancement, in addition to rural densities and uses; (2) Restores the prohibition on county actions to accommodate rural densities and uses that are characterized by urban growth; (3) Authorizes economic development elements to: Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of manufacturing, natural resource, and other locally significant economic sectors; include policies to increase incomes; examine whether sites planned for economic development have adequate public facilities; include education and job-training programs; and address existing economic development opportunities; (4) Authorizes counties with a population of less than 75,000 as of January 1, 2014, to identify policies, programs, and development opportunities to address potential economic deterioration and to seize development opportunities that may deviate from prescriptive interpretations of the GMA; (5) Directs courts and the Growth Management Hearings Board to afford deference, in situations where the GMA's competing goals would restrain economic development, to local economic development choices of counties with a population of less than 75,000 as of January 1, 2014, and cities in those counties, consistent with the GMA's existing presumption of validity of adopted comprehensive plans and development regulations; and (6) Strikes the intent section.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on April 12, 2017
Received in the Senate on April 18, 2017
Senate concurred in House amendments.
Signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on May 16, 2017