File #: 2025-0357    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: In Committee
File created: 1/6/2026 In control: Local Services and Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE related to establishing appropriate timelines necessary to complete midpoint updates to the King County Comprehensive Plan; and amending Ordinance 13147, Section 22, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.18.030.
Sponsors: Reagan Dunn
Indexes: Comprehensive Plan
Attachments: 1. 2025-0357 transmittal letter, 2. 03-Plain-Language-Summary-Midpoint Scope schedule ord 101625, 3. 04-Commerce Acknowledge-Letter-2025-S-11014-Midpoint scope schedule ord, 4. 2025-0357 Fiscal Note, 5. 2025-0357 Legislative Review Form
Drafter
Clerk 11/21/2025
Title
AN ORDINANCE related to establishing appropriate timelines necessary to complete midpoint updates to the King County Comprehensive Plan; and amending Ordinance 13147, Section 22, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.18.030.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The Washington state Growth Management Act ("the GMA") requires local jurisdictions to periodically review and, if needed, revise their comprehensive plans and development regulations at least once every ten years to ensure the plan and regulations comply with the requirements of the GMA. The GMA also allows for annual updates.
B. K.C.C. Title 20 also prescribes a comprehensive planning update cycle specific to King County, allowing for updates to the King County Comprehensive Plan ("the Comprehensive Plan") on the ten-year, five-year ("midpoint"), or annual cycle, depending on the scope of the proposed changes. Midpoint updates to the Comprehensive Plan are allowed under K.C.C. 20.18.030.D for limited updates to address time-sensitive issues before the next ten-year update. K.C.C. 20.18.030.D.3 sets timelines for midpoint updates, including deadlines for establishing the scope of work and for transmitting and adopting the plan update.
C. There are time-sensitive issues that will need addressing before the next ten-year update including, but not limited to: new GMA requirements for addressing climate change in comprehensive plans under Chapter 228, Laws of Washington 2023, which has a December 2029 adoption deadline; the state-mandated periodic update to the Shoreline Master Program, which has a June 2029 adoption deadline; and potential local action to address planning for housing needs in response to legal developments subsequent to enactment of the 2024 Comprehensive Plan. Therefore, the county intends to initiate a 2029 midpoint plan update via a motion establishing a scope of work for the update consistent with K.C.C. 20.18.030.D...

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