WAC 365-195-830   Optional authorizations.  (1) Relocation assistance.

     (a) Any county or city required to plan under the act is authorized to require property owners to provide their portion of reasonable relocation assistance to low-income tenants displaced by certain changes to residential property. The changes include demolition, substantial rehabilitation (whether due to code enforcement or any other reason), change of use and removal of use restrictions in an assisted-housing development.

     (b) The regulations implementing the relocation assistance program shall be governed by the provisions of RCW 59.18.440.

     (c) "Low-income tenants" means tenants whose combined total income per dwelling unit is at or below fifty percent of the median income, adjusted for family size, in the county where the tenants reside.

     (d) For purposes of determining eligibility, the department shall annually inform counties and cities of the appropriate dollar limits to use for median income, adjusted for family size, in different areas within the state. In deciding on these limits, the department will refer to the county-by-county family income figures published annually by the federal department of housing and urban development. As soon as the federal figures become available each year, the department will review them and advise counties and cities promptly of the appropriate dollar limits and their effective dates.

     (2) New communities.

     (a) Any county planning under the act may reserve a portion of its twenty-year population projection for new fully contained communities, located outside of the initially designated urban growth areas.

     (b) Proposals to authorize such communities shall be processed pursuant to development regulations which implement the criteria set forth in RCW 36.70A.350.

     (3) Master planned resorts.

     (a) Any county planning under the act may permit master planned resorts constituting urban growth outside of urban growth areas.

     (b) Proposals to authorize such resorts shall be processed pursuant to development regulations which implement policies on the subject in the comprehensive plan. Approval criteria shall conform to the provisions of RCW 36.70A.360.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 36.70A.190 (4)(b). 93-17-040, § 365-195-830, filed 8/11/93, effective 9/11/93; 92-23-065, § 365-195-830, filed 11/17/92, effective 12/18/92.]