WA SB6069

Counties and cities planning under the Growth Management Act must allow transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, indoor emergency shelters, and indoor emergency housing in all non-industrial zones within urban growth areas.

Local governments cannot impose development standards, conditions, or requirements on these housing types that are more restrictive than those required for other residential development in the same zone.

Only administrative design review (decided by planning director without public hearing) may be required for these housing types, eliminating discretionary review processes.

The same development permit and environmental review processes that apply to other residential development must be used, with exceptions only for state-mandated requirements like shoreline regulations, building codes, and energy codes.

Amendments remove previous allowances for local occupancy, spacing, and intensity restrictions, and eliminate exceptions that had permitted cities to impose additional requirements on emergency and transitional housing.