Land Use & Zoning
Washington's GMA requires counties adjacent to counties experiencing rapid growth to adopt which planning elements?
AAll GMA planning elements including critical areas and urban growth areas✓ Correct
BOnly critical areas ordinances
COnly transportation plans
DNo requirements apply to adjacent counties
Explanation
All 39 Washington counties must adopt critical areas ordinances and natural resource land designations under the GMA. The full GMA planning requirements (including urban growth areas and comprehensive plans) apply to counties meeting population and growth rate thresholds.
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Zoning
Local government regulations that control land use by dividing areas into zones specifying permitted uses, building sizes, and densities.
VarianceOfficial permission to use land in a way that does not conform to the applicable zoning ordinance, granted by a zoning board when strict enforcement would cause undue hardship.
Eminent DomainThe power of government to take private property for public use, with the requirement to pay the owner just compensation.
Adverse PossessionA doctrine by which a person can gain legal title to another's land by openly, continuously, and adversely occupying it for a statutory period.
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