RCW 36.70A.211
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(1)A county may authorize the siting in a rural area of a school that serves students from an urban area, even where otherwise prohibited by a multicounty planning policy, under the following circumstances:
(a)The county has a population of more than eight hundred forty thousand but fewer than one million five hundred thousand and abuts at least six other counties;
(b)The county must have adopted in its comprehensive plan a policy concerning the siting of schools in rural areas;
(c)Any impacts associated with the siting of such a school are mitigated as required by the state environmental policy act, chapter 43.21C RCW; and
(d)The county must be a participant in a multicounty planning policy as described in RCW 36.70A.210 .
(2)A multicounty planning policy in which any county referenced in subsection
(1)of this section is a participant must be amended, at its next regularly scheduled update, to include a policy that addresses the siting of schools in rural areas of all counties subject to the multicounty planning policy.
(3)A school sited under this section may not collect or impose the impact fees described in RCW 82.02.050 .
(4)This section expires June 30, 2031.
[ 2017 c 129 s 2 .]