Description
All cities in King County have committed to shared GHG reduction targets, however no common mitigation commitments to achieve the targets have been established nor a regulatory framework to ensure that all cities are making progress toward shared goals. King County will work with the K4C and the GMPC to explore using the King County Countywide Planning Policies (CPPs) to implement the existing countywide GHG reduction targets at the jurisdictional level. This exploration could include following an approach similar to the recent state requirements (House Bill 1220) used to allocate housing needed by income level for jurisdictions to meet the Growth Management Act (GMA) housing requirements. This could include utilizing the GHG emissions inventory to inform the suballocation process, establishing mitigation measures that all jurisdictions could take to achieve targets, and/or updating the CPPs to establish mitigation measures that all jurisdictions shall take to achieve targets. Implementation would require new technical staff capacity that can work with jurisdictions on their allocations.