Land Use & Zoning
Washington's Growth Management Act requires counties and cities to designate and conserve:
AAll privately owned timberland
BAgricultural lands of long-term commercial significance, forest lands, and mineral resource lands✓ Correct
COnly state-owned lands with timber value
DUrban agricultural areas only
Explanation
The GMA requires counties to designate and protect agricultural lands of long-term commercial significance, forest lands, and mineral resource lands from conflicting land uses to preserve these resources for future generations.
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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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