The purpose and intent of this chapter is to provide the authority for, and the procedures to be followed in, guiding and regulating the physical development of a county or region through correlating both public and private projects and coordinating their execution with respect to all subject matters utilized in developing and servicing land, all to the end of assuring the highest standards of environment for living, and the operation of commerce, industry, agriculture and recreation, and assuring maximum economies and conserving the highest degree of public health, safety, morals and welfare.
RCW 36.70.010
Purpose and intent.
Known as the Planning Enabling Act
The act spans §§ 36–36 (115 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 93 Wash. 2d 843 - Barrie v. Kitsap County (1980)
Most recently applied in BRINNON GROUP v. Jefferson County (January 2011)
1963 c 4 s 36.70.010
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.