Application Submittal and Review
Ensure completeness determinations are made timely without substantive review
Establish local vesting of regulations and impact fees
Meet or exceed established permit review timelines
Provide required timeline data
Provide online permitting and real-time tracking
Avoid development moratoria
SEPA Planning Tools
Adopt an exemption for infill development
Conduct subarea planning for transit-oriented development
Use planned actions
Land Division
Allow administrative approval of long subdivisions
Implement administrative lot splitting
Permit Efficiencies and Process Improvements
Allow concurrent review of preliminary plat and civil plans
City of Auburn.
City of Bellevue.
City of Kent.
Eliminate discretionary design review
Allow construction of model homes before final plat approval
Allow virtual inspections
Flexibility in Site Planning and Design
Ensure tree policies are balanced and predictable
City of Kirkland, KZC 95.30.6 (tree code provision re “no net loss”).
Snohomish County: example of tree canopy approach.
Bellevue: Exemplary public/municipal tree retention and replanting program, as well as tree prioritization location.
Adopt flexible form-based codes
Provide road and access flexibility
Provide flexibility for narrower residential streets
Allow flexibility to meet parking requirements
Reduce minimum building setback requirements