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to this act and shall contain : Findings as to the optimum statewide allocation 

 of the seacoast resource among the various uses enumerated in Section 2, methods, 

 and procedures for combining those uses so that they complement one another ; 

 and standards for protecting the basic interests as enumerated in Section 2. 

 These guidelines may be revised or amended at any time if the commission de- 

 termines that such new guidelines would more effectively achieve the purposes 

 of this act. In formulating these guidelines, the department shall consider 

 existing plans, recommendations, and information for and about Washington's 

 seacoast, whether made by state agencies, local units of government, federal 

 agencies, private individuals and organizations, or other appropriate sources. 

 If the department finds, either initially or at some future time, that such sources 

 are inadequate for formulating or reformulating its guidelines, it shall cooperate 

 with the appropriate agencies or units of government, or with the appropriate 

 private individuals or organizations, in obtaining and developing new or addi- 

 tional plans, recommendations, or information. 



Sec. 7. Except for an emergency as provided in RCW 34.04.030, no guidelines 

 may be adopted, revised, or amended under the preceding section until after the 

 department has held a public hearing, in Olympia, at which time interested public 

 and private parties will have the opportunity to present statements and opinions 

 on the proposed guidelines. Notice of any such hearing shall be published at least 

 once in each of the two weeks preceding the hearing, in at least one newspaper 

 of general circulation in Olympia, and in at least one newspaper of general 

 circulation in each of the counties to be affected by such guidelines. After the 

 department has issued it guidelines it shall give public notice by having them pub- 

 lished in those newspapers used to give notice of the hearings, and by filing a 

 copy to be recorded with the county auditor of each coastal county, and by filing 

 a copy with the code reviser, and by maintaining a copy in its oflBce for public 

 inspection. Unless inconsistent with some provision of this act, the administrative 

 procedures act, RCW 34.04, shall apply to all other matters relating to the 

 adoption, administration, application, and validity of any guideline adopted under 

 this act. 



Sec. 8. The department's guidelines shall serve as temporary regulations on 

 the use of the seacoast, until such time as more detailed zoning regulations 

 adopted under this act have taken effect. 



Sec. 9. Not later than fifteen months after the department has originally 

 adopted guidelines pursuant to Section 6 of this act, or not later than four months 

 after the department has adopted revised guidelines, each coastal county shall 

 adopt zoning regulations for its seacoast. Such regulations shall apply the depart- 

 ment's guidelines to local needs and conditions. Upon petition by the legislative 

 authority of a coastal city that has an established planning commission, a coastal 

 county shall delegate to that city the authority to adopt these zoning regulations 

 for the seacoast located within such city : Provided, That the county then approves 

 and adopts such regulations as part of its .seacoast zoning regulations. 



Sec. 10. After each coastal county has adopted its zoning regulations, or any 

 amendment to them, it shall submit them to the department for review and 

 approval. Approval shall be withheld only if the department, within sixty days of 

 such submission, finds that the regulations do not incorporate the findings, meth- 

 ods, and standards contained in the guidelines, and if it further finds that any 

 variance from the guidelines is not excused by special circumstances. If approval 

 is not granted, it shall detail the defects it finds and shall recommend to the 

 county those changes in the proposed regulations that will bring them into com- 

 pliance with the guidelines. The county shall then have sixty days in which to 

 adopt the department's recommendations, or other revisions designed to correct 

 the defects, and resubmit the regulations to the commission. The department shall 

 then finally approve the regulations within thirty days, using, in the following 

 order of priority, either the county's alternative revisions, some other plan 

 negotiated with the county, or its own recommendations. The regulations shall 

 take effect when finally approved by the Commission. 



Sec. 11. Coastal counties and cities may grant variances from the provisions 

 of the seacoast zoning regulations adopted under this act : Provided, That all such 

 variances are considered as amendments to their zoning regulations and are- 

 submitted to the department for review and approval as in Section 10. 



Sec. 12. The zoning regulations adopted under this act shall be adopted and 

 administered pursuant to all the provisions relating to planning commissions and 

 zoning ordinances contained in RCW 35.63 that are not in conflict with the pro- 

 visions of this act: Provided. That the types of permissible regulations enumer- 

 ated in RCW 35.63.080 shall not prevent the adopton of other types of regulations^ 



