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Snohomish County committee advances code rewrite to streamline commercial and industrial permitting
Summary
The Planning & Community Development Committee voted to forward Ordinance 26-002 to set a public hearing, a package of amendments that would replace duplicated preliminary and final site-plan approvals with a single official site plan, apply a 5-acre threshold for permit types, and clarify setbacks and storage rules in commercial/industrial zones.
The Snohomish County Planning & Community Development Committee voted Feb. 3 to forward Ordinance 26-002 to the General Legislative Session (GLS) to set a public hearing requested for Feb. 25, 2026. Council staff said the ordinance would streamline permitting in commercial and industrial zones by replacing duplicative preliminary and final site-plan approvals with a single official site plan and by clarifying zone categorizations and definitions.
Deb Bell, council staff, told the committee the proposal would treat "projects under 5 acres, such as infill, as type 1 permits, and those of 5 acres or larger as type 2 permits," a threshold she said reflects peer-county practice and some state models. Bell said the package would…
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