ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5611
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senate Local Government (originally sponsored by Senators Salomon, Trudeau, Frame, and Nobles)
READ FIRST TIME 02/21/25.
AN ACT Relating to streamlining and clarifying local governments' land use permitting workloads; amending RCW 58.17.035 , 58.17.040 , 64.90.025 , and 36.70B.080 ; reenacting and amending RCW 58.17.040 ; providing an effective date; and providing an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 58.17.035 and 1987 c 354 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
A city, town, or county may adopt by ordinance procedures for the divisions of land by use of a binding site plan as an alternative to the procedures required by this chapter. The ordinance shall be limited and only apply to one or more of the following: (1) The use of a binding site plan to create or modify divisions for sale or lease of commercially or industrially zoned property as provided in RCW 58.17.040 (4); (2) divisions of property for lease as provided for in RCW 58.17.040 (5); and (3) divisions of property as provided for in RCW 58.17.040 (7). Such ordinance may apply the same or different requirements and procedures to each of the three types of divisions and shall provide for the alteration or vacation of the binding site plan, and may provide for the administrative approval of the binding site plan. For the purposes of this section, commercially zoned property includes property that is zoned to permit or conditionally permit any multifamily residential uses.