 | Public Participation
 | Improve notice to those affected
by comprehensive plan and development regulation
amendments |
| Assure an opportunity for public
comment on substantial changes to comprehensive
plans and development regulations |
| Provide technical assistance to
communities to assist in the development of
comprehensive plans |
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| Monitoring and Evaluation of GMA
Progress
| Require larger and faster growing
western Washington counties and cities to develop
monitoring and evaluation programs to determine
GMA progress and to take action if necessary to
achieve GMA goals |
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| Rural Lands
| Local governments are responsible
for making decisions affecting their communities,
within the state framework established in the GMA |
| Add definitions of "rural
character", "rural governmental
services", and "rural
development", but recognize counties
authority to tailor rural character to their
specific circumstances |
| Provide additional guidance on
what types of development are appropriate in the
rural area |
| Counties may allow certain types
of more intensive rural development, including:
infill of existing shoreline developments,
villages, and crossroads developments;
small-scale tourist or recreational facilities;
and continuation or expansion of existing
isolated non-residential uses |
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| Agricultural Lands
| Allow a variety of innovative
zoning techniques in designated agricultural
areas that will allow some residential and
non-agricultural uses |
| Expand the open-space and
agricultural property tax programs to cover any
land that is zoned agricultural under a GMA
comprehensive plan |
| Change assessment practices on
designated agricultural land to exclude sales for
development purposes |
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