Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 35A Optional Municipal Code - Chapter 35A.63 Planning And Zoning In Code Cities
- 35A.63.010 Definitions
The following words or terms as used in this chapter shall have the meanings set forth below unless different meanings are clearly indicated by the ...
- 35A.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 ...
- 35A.63.020 Planning agency -- Creation -- Powers and duties -- Conflicts of interest
By ordinance a code city may create a planning agency and provide for its membership, organization, and expenses. The planning agency shall serve in an ...
- 35A.63.030 Joint meetings and cooperative action
Pursuant to the authorization of the legislative body, a code city planning agency may hold joint meetings with one or more city or county planning ...
- 35A.63.040 Regional planning
A code city with one or more municipalities within a region, otherwise authorized by law to plan, including municipalities of adjoining states, when empowered by ...
- 35A.63.050 Receipt and expenditure of funds
Any code city or any regional planning commission that includes a code city, when authorized by the legislative bodies of the municipalities represented by the ...
- 35A.63.060 Comprehensive plan -- General
Every code city, by ordinance, shall direct the planning agency to prepare a comprehensive plan for anticipating and influencing the orderly and coordinated development of ...
- 35A.63.061 Comprehensive plan -- Required elements
The comprehensive plan shall be in such form and of such scope as the code city's ordinance or charter may require. It may consist of ...
- 35A.63.062 Comprehensive plan -- Optional elements
The comprehensive plan may include also any or all of the following optional elements: (1) A conservation element for the conservation, development, and utilization of ...
- 35A.63.070 Comprehensive plan -- Notice and hearing
After preparing the comprehensive plan, or successive parts thereof, as the case may be, the planning agency shall hold at least one public hearing on ...
- 35A.63.071 Comprehensive plan -- Forwarding to legislative body
Upon completion of the hearing or hearings on the comprehensive plan or successive parts thereof, the planning agency, after making such changes as it deems ...
- 35A.63.072 Comprehensive plan -- Approval by legislative body
Within sixty days from its receipt of the recommendation for the comprehensive plan, as above set forth, the legislative body at a public meeting shall ...
- 35A.63.073 Comprehensive plan -- Amendments and modifications
All amendments, modifications, or alterations in the comprehensive plan or any part thereof shall be processed in the same manner as set forth in RCW ...
- 35A.63.080 Comprehensive plan -- Effect
From the date of approval by the legislative body the comprehensive plan, its parts and modifications thereof, shall serve as a basic source of reference ...
- 35A.63.100 Municipal authority
After approval of the comprehensive plan, as set forth above, the legislative body, in developing the municipality and in regulating the use of land, may ...
- 35A.63.105 Development regulations -- Consistency with comprehensive plan
Beginning July 1, 1992, the development regulations of each code city that does not plan under RCW 36.70A.040 shall not be inconsistent with the city's ...
- 35A.63.110 Board of adjustment -- Creation -- Powers and duties
A code city which pursuant to this chapter creates a planning agency and which has twenty-five hundred or more inhabitants, by ordinance, shall create a ...
- 35A.63.120 Administration and enforcement
In order to carry into effect the purposes of this chapter, administrative and enforcement responsibilities, other than those set forth in RCW 35A.63.110, may be ...
- 35A.63.130 Provisions inconsistent with charters
Insofar as the provisions of an existing charter of a municipality are inconsistent with this chapter, a municipality may exercise the authority, or any part ...
- 35A.63.140 Duties and responsibilities imposed by other acts
Any duties and responsibilities which by other statutes are imposed upon a planning commission may, in a code city, be performed by a planning agency, ...
- 35A.63.145 Prohibitions on manufactured homes -- Review required -- "Designated manufactured home" defined
(1) Each comprehensive plan which does not allow for the siting of manufactured homes on individual lots shall be subject to a review by the ...
- 35A.63.146 Manufactured housing communities--Elimination of existing community by code city prohibited
After June 10, 2004, a code city may designate a manufactured housing community as a nonconforming use, but may not order the removal or phased ...
- 35A.63.149 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 ...
- 35A.63.150 Public hearings
The legislative body may provide by ordinance for such additional public hearings and notice thereof as it deems to be appropriate in connection with any ...
- 35A.63.152 Public notice -- Identification of affected property
Any notice made under chapter 35A.63 RCW that identifies affected property may identify this affected property without using a legal description of the property including, ...
- 35A.63.160 Construction -- 1967 ex.s. c 119
This title is intended to implement and preserve to code cities all powers authorized by Article XI, section 11 of the Constitution of the state ...
- 35A.63.170 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 ...
- 35A.63.200 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 ...
- 35A.63.210 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 ...
- 35A.63.215 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, ...
- 35A.63.220 Moratoria, interim zoning controls -- Public hearing -- Limitation on length
A legislative body that adopts a moratorium or interim zoning ordinance, without holding a public hearing on the proposed moratorium or interim zoning ordinance, shall ...
- 35A.63.230 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 § 9.] ...
- 35A.63.240 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 ...
- 35A.63.250 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 ...
- 35A.63.260 Planning regulations -- Copies provided to county assessor
By July 31, 1997, a code city planning under RCW 36.70A.040 shall provide to the county assessor a copy of the code city's comprehensive plan ...
- 35A.63.270 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 ...
- 35A.63.280 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
A final decision by a hearing examiner involving a conditional or special use permit application under this chapter that is requested by a party that ...
Last modified: April 7, 2009