WAC 365-195-510
Concurrency. (1) Transportation. The aim of transportation planning for local jurisdictions is to achieve concurrency for transportation facilities. If concurrency for transportation facilities is not achieved, development may not be approved.
(2) Other public facilities. Each comprehensive plan should designate those public facilities in addition to transportation facilities for which concurrency is required.
(3) Levels of service. The concept of concurrency is based on the maintenance of specified levels of service with respect to each of the public facilities to which concurrency applies. For all such facilities, planning jurisdictions should designate appropriate levels of service.
(a) Transportation. The designation of levels of service in the transportation area will be influenced by regional considerations. For transportation facilities subject to regional transportation plans under RCW 47.80.030, local levels of service should conform to the regional plan. Other transportation facilities, however, may reflect local priorities.
(b) Levels of service should be set to reflect realistic expectations consistent with the achievement of growth aims. Setting such levels too high could, under some regulatory strategies, result in no growth. As a deliberate policy, this would be contrary to the act.
(4) Regulatory response to the absence of concurrency. The plan should provide a strategy for what happens when approval of any particular development would cause levels of service for concurrency to fall below the locally adopted standards. Denial of approval is statutorily required only in the area of transportation facilities. To the extent that any jurisdiction uses denial of development as its regulatory response to the absence of concurrency, consideration should be given to defining this as an emergency for the purposes of the ability to amend or revise the comprehensive plan.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 36.70A.190 (4)(b). 92-23-065, § 365-195-510, filed 11/17/92, effective 12/18/92.]