ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5184
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senate Housing (originally sponsored by Senators Bateman, Trudeau, Frame, Krishnadasan, Liias, Nobles, Pedersen, Salomon, Shewmake, and Stanford)
READ FIRST TIME 02/07/25.
AN ACT Relating to minimum parking requirements; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 35A.21 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 36.01 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 19.27 RCW; creating new sections; and repealing RCW 36.70A.620 .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that predetermined on-site parking requirements needlessly drive up the cost of development, particularly housing; discourage walking and multimodal transit usage; and encourage excessive reliance of automobiles with attendant impacts on human health and greenhouse gas emissions. The legislature further finds that the amount of parking that a project actually needs should be determined on a case-by-case basis by permit applicants sensitive to actual market conditions rather than a one-size-fits-all regulation.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows: