Section 36.93.180. Objectives of boundary review board.  


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  • The decisions of the boundary review board shall attempt to achieve the following objectives:
    (1) Preservation of natural neighborhoods and communities;
    (2) Use of physical boundaries, including but not limited to bodies of water, highways, and land contours;
    (3) Creation and preservation of logical service areas;
    (4) Prevention of abnormally irregular boundaries;
    (5) Discouragement of multiple incorporations of small cities and encouragement of incorporation of cities in excess of ten thousand population in heavily populated urban areas;
    (6) Dissolution of inactive special purpose districts;
    (7) Adjustment of impractical boundaries;
    (8) Incorporation as cities or towns or annexation to cities or towns of unincorporated areas which are urban in character; and
    (9) Protection of agricultural and rural lands which are designated for long term productive agricultural and resource use by a comprehensive plan adopted by the county legislative authority.
    NOTES:
    Severability1981 c 332: See note following RCW 35.13.165.