Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 35 Cities And Towns - Chapter 35.63 Planning Commissions

35.63.010 Definitions
As used in this chapter the following terms shall have the meaning herein given them: "Appointive members" means all members of a commission other than ...

35.63.015 "Solar energy system" defined
As used in this chapter, "solar energy system" means any device or combination of devices or elements which rely upon direct sunlight as an energy ...

35.63.020 Commissioners -- Manner of appointment
If any council or board desires to avail itself of the powers conferred by this chapter it shall create a city or county planning commission ...

35.63.030 Commissioners -- Number -- Tenure -- Compensation
The ordinance, resolution or act creating the commission shall set forth the number of members to be appointed, not more than one-third of which number ...

35.63.040 Commissions -- Organization -- Meeting -- Rules
The commission shall elect its own chairman and create and fill such other offices as it may determine it requires. The commission shall hold at ...

35.63.050 Expenditures
The expenditures of any commission or regional commission authorized and established under this chapter, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the ...

35.63.060 Powers of commissions
The commission may act as the research and fact finding agency of the municipality. To that end it may make such surveys, analyses, researches and ...

35.63.065 Public notice -- Identification of affected property
Any notice made under chapter 35.63 RCW that identifies affected property may identify this affected property without using a legal description of the property including, ...

35.63.070 Regional commissions -- Appointment -- Powers
The commissions of two or more adjoining counties, of two or more adjacent cities and towns, of one or more cities and towns and/or one ...

35.63.080 Restrictions on buildings -- Use of land
The council or board may provide for the preparation by its commission and the adoption and enforcement of coordinated plans for the physical development of ...

35.63.090 Restrictions -- Purposes of
All regulations shall be worked out as parts of a comprehensive plan which each commission shall prepare for the physical and other generally advantageous development ...

35.63.100 Restrictions -- Recommendations of commission -- Hearings -- Adoption of comprehensive plan -- Certifying -- Filing or recording
The commission may recommend to its council or board the plan prepared by it as a whole, or may recommend parts of the plan by ...

35.63.105 Amendments to comprehensive plan to be adopted, certified, and recorded or filed in accordance with RCW 35.63.100
All amendments to a comprehensive plan shall be adopted, certified, and recorded or filed in the same manner as authorized in RCW 35.63.100 for an ...

35.63.110 Restrictive zones
For any or all of such purposes the council or board, on recommendation of its commission, may divide the municipality or any portion thereof into ...

35.63.120 Supplemental restrictions -- Hearing -- Affirmance, disaffirmance, modification of commission's decision
Any ordinance or resolution adopting any such plan or regulations, or any part thereof, may be amended, supplemented or modified by subsequent ordinance or resolution. ...

35.63.125 Development regulations -- Consistency with comprehensive plan
Beginning July 1, 1992, the development regulations of each city and county that does not plan under RCW 36.70A.040 shall not be inconsistent with the ...

35.63.130 Hearing examiner system -- Adoption authorized -- Alternative -- Functions -- Procedures
(1) As an alternative to those provisions of this chapter relating to powers or duties of the planning commission to hear and report on any ...

35.63.140 Residential care facilities -- Review of need and demand -- Adoption of ordinances
Each municipality that does not provide for the siting of residential care facilities in zones or areas that are designated for single family or other ...

35.63.150 Conformance with chapter 43.97 RCW required
With respect to the National Scenic Area, as defined in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act, P.L. 99-663, the exercise of any power ...

35.63.160 Regulation of manufactured homes -- Definitions
(1) A "designated manufactured home" is a manufactured home constructed after June 15, 1976, in accordance with state and federal requirements for manufactured homes, which: ...

35.63.161 Manufactured housing communities -- Elimination of existing community by city prohibited
After June 10, 2004, a city may designate a new manufactured housing community as a nonconforming use, but may not order the removal or phased ...

35.63.170 Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 35.22.660, 35.63.180, 35A.63.210, 36.32.520, and 36.70.675: (1) "Family day care home" ...

35.63.180 Child care facilities -- Review of need and demand -- Adoption of ordinances
Each municipality that does not provide for the siting of family day care homes in zones or areas that are designated for single family or ...

35.63.185 Family day-care provider's home facility -- City may not prohibit in residential or commercial area -- Conditions
(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, no city may enact, enforce, or maintain an ordinance, development regulation, zoning regulation, ...

35.63.200 Moratoria, interim zoning controls -- Public hearing -- Limitation on length
A council or board that adopts a moratorium or interim zoning control, without holding a public hearing on the proposed moratorium or interim zoning control, ...

35.63.210 Accessory apartments
Any local government, as defined in RCW 43.63A.215, that is planning under this chapter shall comply with RCW 43.63A.215(3).[1993 c 478 § 8.] ...

35.63.220 Treatment of residential structures occupied by persons with handicaps
No city may enact or maintain an ordinance, development regulation, zoning regulation or official control, policy, or administrative practice which treats a residential structure occupied ...

35.63.230 Watershed restoration projects -- Permit processing -- Fish habitat enhancement project
A permit required under this chapter for a watershed restoration project as defined in RCW 89.08.460 shall be processed in compliance with RCW 89.08.450 through ...

35.63.240 Planning regulations -- Copies provided to county assessor
By July 31, 1997, a city planning under RCW 36.70A.040 shall provide to the county assessor a copy of the city's comprehensive plan and development ...

35.63.250 General aviation airports
Adoption and amendment of comprehensive plan provisions and development regulations under this chapter affecting a general aviation airport are subject to RCW 36.70.547.[1996 c 239 ...

35.63.260 Conditional and special use permit applications by parties licensed or certified by the department of social and health services or the department of corrections -- Mediation prior to appeal required
(1) Prior to filing an appeal of a final decision by a hearing examiner involving a conditional or special use permit application requested by a ...