RCW 39.102.070
Local infrastructure financing -- Conditions.
(Expires June 30, 2039.)
The use of local infrastructure
financing under this chapter is subject to the following
conditions:
(1) No funds may be used to finance, design, acquire,
construct, equip, operate, maintain, remodel, repair, or reequip
public facilities funded with taxes collected under RCW 82.14.048;
(2)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection no funds
may be used for public improvements other than projects
identified within the capital facilities, utilities, housing, or
transportation element of a comprehensive plan required under
chapter 36.70A RCW;
(b) Funds may be used for public improvements that are
historical preservation activities as defined in RCW 39.89.020;
(3) The public improvements proposed to be financed in whole
or in part using local infrastructure financing are expected to
encourage private development within the revenue development area
and to increase the fair market value of real property within the
revenue development area;
(4) A sponsoring local government, participating local
government, or participating taxing district has entered or
expects to enter into a contract with a private developer
relating to the development of private improvements within the
revenue development area or has received a letter of intent from
a private developer relating to the developer's plans for the
development of private improvements within the revenue
development area;
(5) Private development that is anticipated to occur within
the revenue development area, as a result of the public
improvements, will be consistent with the county-wide planning
policy adopted by the county under RCW 36.70A.210 and the local
government's comprehensive plan and development regulations
adopted under chapter 36.70A RCW;
(6) The governing body of the sponsoring local government,
and any cosponsoring local government, must make a finding that
local infrastructure financing:
(a) Is not expected to be used for the purpose of relocating
a business from outside the revenue development area, but within
this state, into the revenue development area; and
(b) Will improve the viability of existing business entities
within the revenue development area;
(7) The governing body of the sponsoring local government,
and any cosponsoring local government, finds that the public
improvements proposed to be financed in whole or in part using
local infrastructure financing are reasonably likely to:
(a) Increase private residential and commercial investment
within the revenue development area;
(b) Increase employment within the revenue development area;
(c) Improve the viability of any existing communities that
are based on mixed-use development within the revenue development
area; and
(d) Generate, over the period of time that the local option
sales and use tax will be imposed under RCW 82.14.475, state
excise tax allocation revenues and state property tax allocation
revenues derived from the revenue development area that are equal
to or greater than the respective state contributions made under
this chapter;
(8) The sponsoring local government may only use local
infrastructure financing in areas deemed in need of economic
development or redevelopment within boundaries of the sponsoring
local government.
[2006 c 181 § 205.]