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Anacortes holds first reading of code changes to adopt SB 5290 permit-review timeframes
Summary
Planning staff presented amendments to Anacortes Municipal Code to align with Washington State's SB 5290, proposing default review timeframes (65/100/170 days) and three optional measures to avoid fee refunds; council moved the item to next week's consent agenda for further consideration.
Libby Grama, planning manager for the City of Anacortes, presented Ordinance 4092 on March 9, a first-reading proposal to amend AMC Title 19 to implement the Local Project Review Act (SB 5290). Grama said the statute, effective Jan. 1, 2025, sets new default permit-review time periods by permit complexity and includes a fee-refund requirement if jurisdictions miss adopted timeframes unless they…
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