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Wash. Rev. Code § 35.44.030 (2026)

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For the purpose of ascertaining the amount to be assessed against each separate lot, tract, parcel of land or other property therein, the local improvement district or utility local improvement district shall be divided into subdivisions or zones paralleling the margin of the street, avenue, lane, alley, boulevard, park drive, parkway, public place or public square to be improved, numbered respectively first, second, third, fourth, and fifth.
The first subdivision shall include all lands within the district lying between the street margins and lines drawn parallel therewith and thirty feet therefrom.
The second subdivision shall include all lands within the district lying between lines drawn parallel with and thirty and sixty feet respectively from the street margins.
The third subdivision shall include all lands within the district lying between lines drawn parallel with and sixty and ninety feet respectively from the street margins.
The fourth subdivision shall include all lands, if any, within the district lying between lines drawn parallel with and ninety and one hundred twenty feet respectively from the street margins.
The fifth subdivision shall include all lands, if any, within the district lying between a line drawn parallel with and one hundred twenty feet from the street margin and the outer limit of the improvement district.
[ 1967 c 52 s 10; 1965 c 7 s 35.44.030. Prior: 1957 c 144 s 17; prior: 1947 c 155 s 1, part; 1941 c 90 s 1, part; 1915 c 168 s 2, part; 1911 c 98 s 13, part; Rem. Supp. 1947 s 9365, part.]

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Construction—Severability—1967 c 52: See notes following RCW 35.43.042.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases, 1954–2014 · leading case: Hasit, LLC v. City of Edgewood, 320 P.3d 163 (Wash. Ct. App. 2014).
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Hasit, LLC v. City of Edgewood, 320 P.3d 163 (Wash. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 2× “RCW 35.44.030, .040. With this, it can hardly be said that requiring the specially benefitted parcels to bear the entire cost proceeds on a fundamentally wrong basis under the statute.”
Bellevue Assocs. v. City of Bellevue, 741 P.2d 993 (Wash. 1987). “047 provides: Notwithstanding the methods of assessment provided in RCW 35.44.030, 35.44.040 and 35.44.045, the city or town may use any other method or combination of methods to compute assessments which may be deemed to more fairly reflect the special benefits to the…”
Doolittle v. City of Everett, 786 P.2d 253 (Wash. 1990). “" RCW 35.44.030, .050. See also RCW 35.44.040(3), (3)(1) ("each lot, tract, or parcel of land").”
In Re Schmitz, 268 P.2d 436 (Wash. 1954). “RCW 35.44.030]. Counsel for the city stipulated that only the evidence of Mr.”
Time Oil Co. v. City of Port Angeles, 712 P.2d 311 (Wash. Ct. App. 1985). “Notwithstanding the methods of assessment provided in RCW 35.44.030, 35.44.040 and 35.44.045, the city or town may use any other method or combination of methods to compute assessments which may be deemed to more fairly reflect the special benefits to the properties being…”
Sterling Realty Co. v. City of Bellevue, 415 P.2d 627 (Wash. 1966). · cites it 2× “The assessment roll segregated the right-of-way acquisition costs from the construction costs, assessing the construction costs throughout the district in accordance with the zone and termini method of assessment, RCW 35.44.030, and assessing the right-of-way acquisition costs…”
Boe v. City of Seattle, 401 P.2d 648 (Wash. 1965). “00 per unit of property frontage, determined in the manner prescribed by RCW 35.44.030 and 040 for determining ‘assessable units of frontage.”
In re Ron Inv. Co., 43 Wash. App. 860 (Wash. Ct. App. 1986). · cites it 2× “While the "zone and termini" method described in RCW 35.44.030 and .040 must be applied to property within a local improvement district, a county council may adopt whatever method of assessment is "most practical and equitable under the conditions prevailing" for property within…”
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