35.21.687 - Affordable housing -- Inventory of suitable housing.

Affordable housing — Inventory of suitable housing.

(1) Every city and town, including every code city operating under Title 35A RCW, shall identify and catalog real property owned by the city or town that is no longer required for its purposes and is suitable for the development of affordable housing for very low-income, low-income, and moderate-income households as defined in RCW 43.63A.510. The inventory shall include the location, approximate size, and current zoning classification of the property. Every city and town shall provide a copy of the inventory to the *department of community, trade, and economic development by November 1, 1993, with inventory revisions each November 1 thereafter.

     (2) By November 1 of each year, beginning in 1994, every city and town, including every code city operating under Title 35A RCW, shall purge the inventory of real property of sites that are no longer available for the development of affordable housing. The inventory revision shall also contain a list of real property that has become available since the last update. As used in this section, "real property" means buildings, land, or buildings and land.

[1995 c 399 § 37; 1993 c 461 § 4.]

Notes: *Reviser's note: The "department of community, trade, and economic development" was renamed the "department of commerce" by 2009 c 565.

Finding -- 1993 c 461: See note following RCW 43.63A.510.