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State Land Use Enacted Legislation
| Bill # | State | Year | Party | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HB 1181 |
WA | 2023 | D | Affordable housing incentives and financing, Appeals, Deadlines, Encouraging duplex, triplex, fourplexes and townhomes, Enforcement, Planning for climate adaptation and hazards, Planning Requirements, Technical assistance, Written findings, burden and standard of proof |
Provided by Furman
Summary
- The bill adds goals 14 and 15 to the existing list of goals the state uses to guide development.
- Goal 14 relates to climate change and resiliency with an emphasis on mitigating climate change and developing climate resistance housing and transportation infrastructure.
- Goal 15 relates to the shorelines of the state.
- Modifies transportation goal to include climate related concerns, explicitly requiring that modifications to transportation infrastructure reduce greenhouse gas emissions and per capita vehicle miles traveled.
- Modifies open space and recreation goal to prioritize retaining green space and enhancing fish and wildlife habitats.
- Modifies land use elements in the comprehensive plan to give consideration to environmental concerns including. Modifications include:
- Requiring that comprehensive plans include a land use element that touches on green spaces, and urban and community forests within urban growth areas.
- Land use element must give special consideration to achieving environmental justice goals.
- Adding a provision that, wherever possible, land use element reduces per capita vehicle miles traveled.
- Land use element must reduce and mitigate risk posed by wildfires.
- Declares that county/city should identify and work with public entities that own utility systems and attempt in good faith to work with other public entities to include certain information in the utilities element.
- Specifies that if the county or city is unable to gather the required information in the utilities element, they will not be found noncompliant under the act.
- Extensive modifications to the transportation element in the comprehensive plan:
- Transportation element must include estimated multimodal level of service impact to state-owned transportation facilities.
- Amends bill to include active transportation facilities in the list of facilities whose needs must be listed in the transportation element.
- Must include facilities and services needs of locally and regionally owned transit routes serving urban areas.
- Include forecasts of multimodal transportation demands in cities.
- Add a transition plan focused on achieving transportation that is ADA compliant.
- Additional standalone sections targeting pollution and other climate related concerns.
- Amends bill to add evaluation of tree canopy coverage in urban areas to the list of things that must be included in the park and recreation element.
- Adds a provision about including a climate change and resiliency element that will include greenhouse gas emissions subelement and a resiliency subelement.
- Adds a provision specifying that the department must establish funding levels for grants to community organizations focused on increasing participation of vulnerable populations in planning process.
- Requires that the department collaborate with a number of agencies, as well as any federally recognized tribe, to develop a model climate change and resiliency element.
- Includes a number of definitions related to miles traveled, transportation, and environmental terms.
Provided by lawmakers
Bill Title
AN ACT Improving the state's response to climate change by updating the state's planning framework.