{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-36.70a.211","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 36.70A.211","heading":"Siting of schools—Rural areas, when authorized—Impact fees. (Expires June 30, 2031.)","body":"(1) A county may authorize the siting in a rural area of a school that serves students from an urban area, even where otherwise prohibited by a multicounty planning policy, under the following circumstances:\n(a) The county has a population of more than eight hundred forty thousand but fewer than one million five hundred thousand and abuts at least six other counties;\n(b) The county must have adopted in its comprehensive plan a policy concerning the siting of schools in rural areas;\n(c) Any impacts associated with the siting of such a school are mitigated as required by the state environmental policy act, chapter 43.21C RCW; and\n(d) The county must be a participant in a multicounty planning policy as described in RCW 36.70A.210.\n(2) A multicounty planning policy in which any county referenced in subsection (1) of this section is a participant must be amended, at its next regularly scheduled update, to include a policy that addresses the siting of schools in rural areas of all counties subject to the multicounty planning policy.\n(3) A school sited under this section may not collect or impose the impact fees described in RCW 82.02.050.\n(4) This section expires June 30, 2031.","path":["Title 36","Chapter 36.70A"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=36.70A.211","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:31:23Z","sha256":"ca8856e4837e6da5cfe6a5c2feeaca2dae32b52ee15ac6751bb229e88f829738","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-36.70a.210","next":"us-wa/rcw-36.70a.212"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}