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Council hears presentation on SEPA code amendments to adopt state categorical exemptions
Summary
Planning staff presented Ordinance No. 69-72 to update Auburn’s SEPA code to reflect recent changes in state thresholds for categorical exemptions and to add planned actions and an optional determination-of-nonsignificance process.
At the March 24 Auburn City Council study session, senior planner Diana Reed presented Ordinance No. 69-72, a proposed update to the city code that would align local rules with recent Washington state changes to State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) categorical exemptions and add two code sections the city has been using: planned actions and an optional determination-of-nonsignificance process.
The matters are important because the state changes raise the size and scale of some development that will be categorically exempt from SEPA review, potentially shortening permitting…
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