WAC 365-195-800   Relationship to comprehensive plans.  (1) Development regulations under the Growth Management Act are specific controls placed on development or land use activities by a county or city. Such regulations must be consistent with comprehensive plans developed pursuant to the act and they must implement those comprehensive plans.

     "Implement" in this context has a more affirmative meaning than merely "consistent" (See WAC 365-195-210(5).) "Implement" connotes not only a lack of conflict but sufficient scope to carry out fully the goals, policies, standards and directions contained in the comprehensive plan.

     (2) The legislature has specifically provided that the designation of interim urban growth areas shall be in the form of development regulations. Such interim designations shall generally precede the adoption of comprehensive plans.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 36.70A.190 (4)(b). 93-17-040, § 365-195-800, filed 8/11/93, effective 9/11/93; 92-23-065, § 365-195-800, filed 11/17/92, effective 12/18/92.]