Bill > HB1402

This bill allows counties and cities to adjust their urban growth boundaries to account for situations where property owners have not developed property as expected in comprehensive plans and development regulations. The key provisions are: 1. It allows counties and cities to assume that properties or areas within urban growth boundaries or cities that are in flood plains or remain undeveloped or underdeveloped after 20 years will not be developed as expected, and they can expand the urban growth boundary to include more buildable land to satisfy projected need. 2. It reenacts and amends laws related to the review and update of comprehensive plans and development regulations to require adjustments for undeveloped, underdeveloped, or flood-prone properties within urban growth areas. 3. It removes the authority of the growth management hearings board to hear or determine any petition regarding compliance or validity for adjustments of urban growth boundaries made under this new authority. The bill aims to provide cities and counties an immediate solution to address shortages of land for affordable housing development due to property owners leaving land undeveloped or developing it differently than expected.

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https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1402&Year=2023&Initiative=false