Washington Code 36.70.690 – County improvements
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No county shall improve any street or lay or authorize the laying of sewers or connections or other improvements to be laid in any street within any territory for which the board has adopted an official control in the form of precise street map or maps, until the matter has been referred to the planning agency by the department or official having jurisdiction for a report thereon and a copy of the report has been filed with the department or official making the reference unless one of the following conditions apply:
Terms Used In Washington Code 36.70.690
- Board: means the board of county commissioners. See Washington Code 36.70.020
- Department: means a planning department organized and functioning as any other department in any county. See Washington Code 36.70.020
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Official controls: means legislatively defined and enacted policies, standards, precise detailed maps and other criteria, all of which control the physical development of a county or any part thereof or any detail thereof, and are the means of translating into regulations and ordinances all or any part of the general objectives of the comprehensive plan. See Washington Code 36.70.020
- Planning agency: means (a) a planning commission, together with its staff members, employees and consultants, or (b) a department organized and functioning as any other department in any county government together with its planning commission. See Washington Code 36.70.020
(1) The street has been accepted, opened, or has otherwise received legal status of a public street;
(2) It corresponds with and conforms to streets shown on the official controls applicable to the subject;
(3) It corresponds with and conforms to streets shown on a subdivision (land plat) approved by the board.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.70.690. Prior: 1959 c 201 § 69.]