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Bill to restore industrial‑land bank designation authority spotlights rural development needs

Washington State House Local Government Committee · January 20, 2026
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Summary

House Bill 2006 would extend the deadline allowing certain rural counties that enacted a sales/use tax for economic development to designate up to two industrial land bank locations under the Growth Management Act; supporters said this authority helps counties attract family‑wage jobs, while planners raised concerns about parcel size and protecting agricultural lands.

Committee staff Elizabeth Rudd briefed House Bill 2,006 as restoring a narrowly tailored authority that had expired in 2016 and would let qualifying rural counties that enacted an economic development sales and use tax designate up to two master‑planned industrial land banks outside urban growth areas if they act by the next periodic…

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