NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO GROWTH MANAGEMENT HEARINGS BOARDS’ RULES OF PRACTICE & PROCEDURE

On April 24, 2008, the Growth Management Hearings Boards adopted amendments to WAC 242-02 and WAC 242-04. These amendments were filed with the Office of the Code Reviser on April 28, 2008 and will become effective on May 29, 2008. Notice of these amendments will be published in the Washington State Register, Issue No. 08-10.

Amendments to WAC 242-02:
OTS-1268_2.pdf
OTS-1270_1.pdf

Amendments to WAC 242-04:
OTS-1269_1.pdf

ORDER DENYING PETITIONS FOR RULEMAKING – SEPA STANDING

GROWTH MANAGEMENT HEARINGS BOARD PRACTICE HANDBOOK

THE WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE, WHEN and HOW
of practicing before the Growth Management Hearings Boards
October 2007

Click here to download the handbook in pdf fomat.

The Washington State Legislature passed the Growth Management Act (GMA) in 1990 to encourage wise land use and planning. In 1991, it created growth management hearings boards to resolve land use disputes quickly - rather than a single state-wide board, three independent boards were established in order to reflect regional diversity. The jurisdictional regions for the three boards are as follows:

Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board (CPSGMHB): includes King, Snohomish, Pierce and Kitsap Counties and the cities within those counties (aqua, below).

Eastern Washington Growth Management Hearings Board (EWGMHB): includes all counties and cities east of the crest of the Cascade Mountains which are required to plan or choose to plan under the Act (beige, below).

Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board (WWGMHB): includes all counties and cities west of the crest of the Cascade Mountains which are required to plan or choose to plan under the Act, but are not within the Central Puget Sound Board’s jurisdictional boundaries (green, below).

(Purple counties must plan for Critical Areas and Natural Resources Lands only.) For implementation of the GMA, see the Growth Management website of the Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development (DCTED) and the DCTED map:

Visit the website of the Municipal Research & Services Center of Washington to access the state's largest collection of municipal reference materials, with over 12,000 volumes. Materials available include copies of city and county ordinances, municipal codes, budgets, financial reports, studies, zoning codes, and comprehensive plans.