West Richland is a mayor-council code city under chapter 35A.12 of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW). The mayor is the full-time executive and appoints the Planning Commission. Seven council members are elected at large to four-year terms and pass ordinances^11,12.

Fred Brink became mayor in January 2026 after beating Councilmember May Hays 2,500 votes to 930 on November 4, 2025. Brent Gerry, mayor since 2014, did not run¹³. The council is Richard Bloom (mayor pro tem), John Smart, Ken Stoker and David Cole, all with terms through 2029; David Fetto and Kate Moran, through 2027; and Dan Richey, whom the council appointed on February 24, 2026 to Brink’s vacated seat. Richey must run in November 2027, when Positions 5, 6 and 7 are on the ballot^11,14,15.

The Planning Commission recommends but does not decide on zoning. Its members are Dan O’Neill (chair), Michael Peterson, Nancy Aldrich, Colton Brady, Chad Utecht, Jared Retter and Braden Sloughter. Aldrich and Sloughter lost 2025 council races to Smart and Bloom^13,16.

The appointed staff on this file are Community and Economic Development Director Eric Mendenhall, who is also the city’s SEPA responsible official; Public Works Director Roscoe Slade; City Attorney Jessica Foltz; and City Clerk Stephanie Haug. The city has no city administrator; the mayor supervises departments directly^7,12.

Lewis and Clark Ranch is about 7,600 acres on the peninsula between the Yakima River and Ruppert Road, inside city limits since the early 1980s and still farmed. Frank Tiegs LLC of Pasco, a subsidiary of Washington Potato Company, owns it. Until May 2026 the city zoned it Urban Transition, a holding zone meant to shift to urban uses in phases^3,26,27.

Step one: the September 2024 power request

The earliest dated document is not a city record. BPA’s transmission queue lists request L0621, “West Richland Data Center Campus,” sponsored through Benton REA, with a request date of September 6, 2024 and a proposed in-service date of March 1, 2028. BPA’s own queue spreadsheet, downloaded September 13, 2026, shows the request in “STUDY” status.

The 912-megawatt figure and the points of interconnection, the Ashe-Slatt No. 1 and Ashe-Marion No. 2 500-kilovolt lines, come from a third-party tracker; BPA’s sheet carries no megawatt column, and the customer name sits behind the tracker’s paywall^34,35,65.

Step two: the code change, January 29 to February 18, 2025

Frank Tiegs LLC filed application TXT-0001-2025 to amend West Richland Municipal Code (WRMC) sections 17.13.020 and 17.13.030 so data centers would be an allowed use in the Urban Transition and Light Industrial districts. The staff report told the Planning Commission that “this is a non-project review. So, details will not be provided at this time do to request from applicant,” and that approval “would provide an opportunity for future project action to be submitted for administrative review and approval”^6,10.

The chain ran in 20 days:

• January 29, 2025: Mendenhall signed a Determination of Non-Significance (DNS), file SEPA-0002-2025, finding no adverse impacts and requiring no mitigation because “additional environmental review will be conducted during the design phase for each project.” The same day the city asked the state Department of Commerce for expedited review^6,8.

• January 30, 2025: Commerce granted expedited review⁸.

• February 4, 2025: the council’s Community and Economic Development Subcommittee voted unanimously to recommend passage, before any public hearing. No agenda or minutes for that subcommittee are posted anywhere on the city’s site, and the city lists no council subcommittees among its public bodies^8,10,60.

• February 13, 2025, 5:00 p.m.: deadline for written SEPA comments and appeals. None are recorded⁶.

• February 13, 2025, 6:09 to 6:14 p.m.: Planning Commission hearing. No one from the public spoke. Commissioner Brady moved, Utecht seconded, and the recommendation passed 5-0 with Peterson and Retter excused⁹.

• February 18, 2025, 6:14 to 6:15 p.m.: council hearing. “There were no comments.” Bloom moved to adopt Ordinance 03-25, Smart seconded, and “after a brief discussion, the Council unanimously approved” it. All seven members were present: Brink (virtual), Bloom, Fetto, Hays, Moran, Smart and Stoker, with Gerry presiding. No roll call is printed⁷.

Mendenhall’s stated reason, in the staff report and to the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business: “Data centers bring daytime jobs, are a significant source of utility and sales tax revenue, and would have the potential of bringing overall taxes down for residents”^5,7. The Journal of Business reported the vote on March 13, 2025, three and a half weeks after it happened⁵.

What “permitted” means is spelled out in WRMC 17.13.010: a “P” in the matrix means “the use is permitted in that district,” while a “C” means it is “conditionally permitted subject to the conditional use permit review procedures and criteria specified in WRMC 17.66.030.”

Chapter 14.01 sorts applications into seven types. The director decides Types I and II, the ministerial and administrative permits; the Planning Commission decides Type III, which “include: Conditional use permits”; the council decides Types IV, V and VII, the last being legislative acts like zoning text changes. No hearing examiner appears in the chapter⁶⁰.

Step three: the Lewis and Clark Ranch plan, 2022 to 2026

Separately, Frank Tiegs LLC applied in 2021 for Comprehensive Plan and zoning amendments for the whole ranch. The city issued a SEPA Determination of Significance on March 4, 2022, took scoping comments March 4 to 25, 2022, paused in 2023, and restarted in January 2025. The Draft EIS comment period ran July 3 to August 4, 2025, with a community meeting July 10. A Draft EIS Addendum came February 12, 2026 and the Final EIS April 16, 2026^22,24,27,29.

The votes:

• August 12, 2025: the council selected the preferred alternative, reported as unanimous²⁸.

• April 9, 2026: Planning Commission hearing. Twelve people spoke. Anna Cassie and Tony Carr raised future data centers; Carr acknowledged detailed data center review “would likely occur at a later stage of planning.” The recommendation passed 3-0 with Retter and Utecht excused¹⁹.

• April 21, 2026: council first reading and hearing. Staff said “no specific data center project is proposed, and any future proposals would require additional review.” Eight people spoke, mostly realtors in support. The same consent agenda, without separate discussion, amended a 2023 water and sewer fee prepayment agreement and a reimbursement agreement with Frank Tiegs LLC²⁰.

• May 5, 2026: Ordinances 06-26 (comprehensive plan and land use map), 07-26 (subarea development regulations and zoning map) and 08-26 (planned action for the 770-acre Phase 1) each passed unanimously with all seven present. Jerry Boggs, Anna Casey and Harry Mays used public comment to raise data centers. Technical problems kept several remote attendees from speaking in the first comment period²¹.

Ordinance 07-26 did more than the notice said. It repealed the Urban Transition zone “and all references thereto” and replaced it with five subarea zones: Mixed Use Commercial Core, Mixed Use Transition, Mixed Residential, Mixed Use Light Industrial (MU-LI) and Community Parks^61,63.

Its Exhibit 1 describes MU-LI as allowing “technology-based uses, data centers, large scale power generation, manufacturing, warehousing, food and beverage processing.” The amended commercial matrix strikes the old Urban Transition column and adds a “P” for data centers under MU-LI, alongside the existing “P” under Light Industrial. Ordinance 06-26 wrote the same list into the Comprehensive Plan’s land use element⁶¹.

The subarea rules also carry standards written for this use. Section 4.14.2 says that “for data centers or similar buildings,” a 200-foot landscape buffer with a double row of trees, a 2.5-foot berm and a six-to-eight-foot masonry fence is required where the site abuts residential or mixed use zoning, and that “an independent noise and air quality study shall be required prior to approval of the development.”

MU-LI buildings may reach four stories or 55 feet, and the zone may be 100 percent industrial. Section 4.14.4 exempts “secure sites such as data centers” from the preference for side-street access⁶¹.

None of that appears in the Final EIS. A text search of its 311-page main volume finds no data center analysis; the phrase appears only in an appendix index entry for a Benton REA email. The city’s hearing notice mentions neither data centers nor industrial land^23,24. The plan sizes Phase 1 for about 3,800 homes and 2,600 jobs over 20 years²⁷.

Step four: disclosure and the land sale, October 2025 to September 2026

Mayor Gerry told the Port of Benton Commission on October 15, 2025 that Trammell Crow had a deal for 500 acres, growing to 1,000, then declined further questions; the city issued a statement halting discussion⁴. Trammell Crow confirmed in December 2025 that it was “studying the feasibility to develop a portion of the Lewis and Clark land” and would engage the community “once our development plans are finalized”².

The Benton County Auditor’s index shows four instruments recorded back to back at 8:47 a.m. on July 28, 2026: a deed from Frank Tiegs LLC to TC West Richland 1 LLC (2026-018769), an agreement between the same parties indexed to Sections 34, 35 and 36 of Township 10 North, Range 27 East (2026-018770), a deed from TC West Richland 1 LLC to WKC31 Development LLC (2026-018771), and a partial release of AgWest Farm Credit’s liens on the Tiegs land (2026-018772).

The parcel list on the deeds begins 134071000000001, 134071000000002, 133071000004000, 133071000005000 and 128071000000001, which are splits of three parent parcels the Final EIS lists at 473, 553 and 35 acres, about 1,061 acres in all^25,62.

The Journal of Business reported the prices: $82.7 million on July 10 and $263.7 million on July 16. Both buyers are Delaware entities formed within the prior year, and Delaware does not require members to be named. The Washington Secretary of State, SEC and OpenCorporates registries could not be queried from this session, so the record still stops at the two names. Trammell Crow declined to comment on the sale^3,62.

No city vote or public step was required. Mendenhall told the council on September 1, 2026, about seven weeks after closing, that the buyer was Trammell Crow. Councilmember Moran said the council “had learned of the Trammell Crow property sale that evening” and had not withheld it^17,32.

Where the sold land sits in the plan

The Phase 1 planned action area is defined by parcel in Ordinance 08-26: four whole parcels in Sections 35 and 36 plus about 37 acres of the 473-acre parcel in Section 34. The sold parcels are in Sections 34, 33 and 28, west and northwest of Phase 1. On the record, the sale is at least 95 percent outside the planned action area, and the only possible overlap is that 37-acre corner, which the recorded agreement most likely settles but which is not viewable online^62,63.

That matters because the planned action is the only shortcut in the record. Ordinance 08-26 lets a project inside Phase 1 skip a new SEPA threshold determination if it fits the studied categories and stays under the plan’s caps. Outside Phase 1, a project gets full SEPA review, and the city has said a data center would likely require its own EIS with scoping and comment periods^1,22,63.

The 2025 zoning map attached to Ordinance 07-26 places the ranch’s only MU-LI band across the south-central ranch, north of Ruppert Road and west of Phase 1, with Mixed Residential and Mixed Use Transition north of it. That is where the sold sections lie. Parcel lines could not be overlaid on the map here, so the exact split among districts is not established^61,62. Compute Atlas, a data center tracker, lists the site at 46.305 N, 119.367 W and calls it “rumored, unconfirmed”⁶⁴.

The city’s FAQ page, updated September 10, 2026, says it “has not received a development application for a data center” and that size, water use, power demand, traffic and timeline “are not known”¹. Mendenhall told the council that any application would face “a significant public review process like the process associated with the Lewis and Clark Ranch”¹⁷.

The September 15 council agenda carries no data center item, no moratorium and no text amendment. Its business is a criminal justice sales tax ordinance, a fireworks ordinance, and resolutions adopting the Environment, Housing and Land Use elements of the comprehensive plan^17,66. The only city-announced event was a September 12 morning meet-and-greet with Public Works Director Slade and Councilmember Smart on Bombing Range Road; no town hall date has been set^17,32.

Power is the gating item. The site is in Benton REA territory, not Benton PUD’s. Benton REA Deputy General Manager Troy Berglund said in November 2025 that the co-op is “in the early stages of due diligence with a prospective data center” under a cost-recovery agreement with an upfront deposit. Benton REA declined to release the agreement, saying that as a cooperative it is not subject to the Public Records Act, and its website carries no board minutes, statement or large-load policy on the project.

Berglund said “The biggest hurdle to overcome is power”^2,4,68.

Benton REA’s Josh Lozano told the council on August 18, 2026 that large-load customers are expected to bear the costs of supply, transmission and upgrades so members do not subsidize them¹⁸.

For scale, Benton PUD General Manager Rick Dunn wrote in July 2026 that all of the Tri-Cities draws “more than 600 average megawatts.” BPA’s rate schedules for October 2025 through September 2028 price its New Resource rate, the rate for new large loads, at roughly $80 to $132 per megawatt-hour depending on month, against about $37 for preference power^43,69.

Benton REA rates are rising 17.6 percent from those BPA increases; the city’s FAQ says the increases “should not automatically be attributed to a potential data center”^1,42.

Water has no published figure. The city runs seven groundwater wells plus an intertie with Richland, producing nearly 750 million gallons a year, about 2,300 acre-feet, with a peak day of 6.3 million gallons, an average day of 3.8 million and pumping capacity of 7,400 gallons per minute^44,70.

The Final EIS says the city’s ability to serve 2,105 of the 4,539 Phase 1 equivalent residential units depends on a pending water right application, S4-33044(B2), filed with Ecology’s Office of Columbia River in October 2022, and that “securing sufficient new water rights remains uncertain.” Ecology’s tracking system is a form-only search, and no public page shows the application’s status or the quantity requested^25,71. Ecology curtailed every surface water right in the Yakima basin on October 6, 2025, except the Yakama Nation’s treaty right⁵⁹.

Public comment access has narrowed. Stoker noted that the August 18, 2026 meeting “marked the end of routine remote public comment”; written comments are now due to the clerk by 3 p.m. on meeting day^17,18. A large crowd attended the September 10 Planning Commission meeting, but that agenda held only a gas station standards amendment and a multifamily parking amendment. No data center item existed for them to speak to^30,39.

Mendenhall’s case, made in 2025, was jobs and revenue: daytime jobs, utility and sales tax revenue, and the potential to lower overall taxes for residents^5,7. Ordinance 03-25’s recitals say the council “encourages a business climate that supports new investment and job creation” and wants to grow “the city’s tax base to support public services”⁸.

Current council members have not endorsed the project, but several have resisted a moratorium. Richey said on August 18 he was “not yet convinced a moratorium was necessary” and urged residents to gather specific information. Smart said on September 1, “Don’t organize based on anti-data center rallies just for the sake of being against data centers,” and “We don’t officially know anything more than you do, honestly. There’s just no secrets here”^3,18,31.

Benton REA says a properly structured large load “may provide utility and rate benefits” while the customer bears the cost of upgrades¹⁸. The Tri-City Regional Chamber’s July 2026 blog post is cautious: “Projects should be supported because they benefit the community, not just because the industry is expanding”⁴⁶. No statement from the Tri-City Development Council (TRIDEC) or any union about this project turned up.

Jonathan Tallman, a Tri-Cities resident who says he spent eight years speaking on data centers in Boardman, Oregon, is the named public face: “With reports of a $264 million land sale in this area, the public deserves independent studies, full disclosure, proper notice, and genuine public hearings.” He said decisions on land, taxes, water, noise and pollution “must be made openly by informed elected officials … not handed to an outside committee or placed in the hands of one person”^30,31.

The organizing hub is the Facebook group Tri-Cities Data Center Watch, with more than 3,000 members by September 10, which canvassed on September 12^3,30. Anthony Carr’s Change.org petition, started March 5, 2026, asks the council to reverse the 2025 zoning decision and had 652 signatures. Majesta McCann’s June 3 petition for a one-year moratorium in Richland and West Richland had 3,670 and warns of “millions of gallons of our local water resources sucked dry every single day”^36,37.

Their specific asks, per the Center Square report on the September 10 meeting: stop allowing large data centers outright in Light Industrial zones, require a conditional use permit, and commission water, power, noise, wastewater and fire studies before any application³⁰. At council, Jerry Boggs asked the city to involve knowledgeable residents in any town hall process, and Tex Bender raised transparency and public involvement¹⁷.

Reaction on the street is mixed. KAPP-KVEW quoted resident Mason Ahlemeyer, “I had no idea that was even happening,” and Victor Riojos, who works in the city, saying “It’s kind of cool [to] bring some jobs”³³. No lawsuit, land-use appeal, or public-records dispute over the project has been filed, and no poll or survey of residents exists^30,36.

What a Trammell Crow campus looks like elsewhere

Trammell Crow, a CBRE Group subsidiary, has issued no statement since the July purchase and has filed no job posting or pre-application in West Richland^3,72.

Its Georgia filings show the scale it works at. In Forsyth, Georgia, it filed in December 2025 for a $21 billion campus of 12 million square feet in 21 buildings on 1,632 acres, with buildout to 2037. Its White Oak Technology Park in Columbia County, Georgia, covers about 1,945 acres, 8 million square feet and six substations^73,74.

Neither filing reports a megawatt total or cooling type. The 245-megawatt Dallas campus often attributed to Trammell Crow belongs to Crow Holdings, a separate company⁷⁵.

Campaign money

Washington Public Disclosure Commission data for West Richland candidates from 2023 through 2025 shows no donations from Frank Tiegs LLC, Washington Potato Company, Trammell Crow or any data center firm. Brink’s 2025 campaign raised $10,318, mostly his own in-kind giving, with $1,200 from the Washington Association of Realtors PAC. Moran’s 2023 race raised $10,630, including $1,200 each from IBEW Local 112 and the Central Washington Building Trades. Most other members filed under mini-reporting, so their donors are not itemized⁴⁵.

The law that governs the next steps

Once an application is filed, RCW 36.70B controls. The city must issue a notice of application within 14 days of finding it complete, with a comment period of 14 to 30 days, and may combine that notice with the SEPA threshold determination⁴⁸. SEPA offers three outcomes: a DNS, a mitigated DNS with binding conditions, or an EIS. A DNS on a legislative action carries a 14-day comment period⁴⁷.

Any final land use decision can be challenged in Benton County Superior Court under the Land Use Petition Act (LUPA). RCW 36.70C.040 makes a petition timely only if filed and served “within 21 days of the issuance of the land use decision”⁷⁶. A council moratorium under RCW 35A.63.220 requires a public hearing within 60 days of adoption and findings of fact, runs six months, or a year with a work plan, and is renewable in six-month steps⁷⁷.

A data center does not go before the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC). RCW 80.50.060 makes certification mandatory only for large thermal plants, certain 500-kilovolt multi-county lines, pipelines and refineries. A data center is a load, not a generator; its backup diesel generators are permitted by Ecology’s air program⁴⁹.

The 2026 Legislature did not pass House Bill 2515, which would have defined data centers over 20 megawatts as “large energy use facilities” and required utilities to make them carry their own costs; it passed the House 51-41 and died in Senate Ways and Means. Senate Bill 5982 did pass, holding large customers to Clean Energy Transformation Act deadlines. Governor Bob Ferguson’s Executive Order 25-05 created a data center workgroup with a final report due later in 2026^51,52,53.

What Quincy and Oregon show

Quincy, Washington, drew Microsoft and Yahoo in 2006 through the Grant County Economic Development Council, the Port of Quincy, Grant County PUD and the city. The town grew from about 5,300 to 8,200 people, city revenue rose from $6 million in 2006 to $47 million in 2024, and data centers now pay 57 percent of Quincy’s taxes and use 37 percent of Grant County PUD’s generation^54,55.

Quincy’s public fight was over diesel. Ecology approved about 95 backup generators across four companies in two years, and a citizen group led by former mayor Patty Martin appealed. The Pollution Control Hearings Board ruled in May 2012 that modeled emissions were “far below the risk levels” but recommended annual stack testing and a 48-hour annual cap on emergency operation. Microsoft later funded a water reuse plant^50,54.

Grant County PUD is now spending $260 million to lift Quincy’s capacity from 372 to 750 megawatts by 2029 and raised industrial rates 9.5 percent in April 2026⁵⁵.

In Oregon, Amazon runs 13 data centers in the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area. Oregon DEQ fined it about $10,000 for air and water violations in 2026, and a class action over nitrate contamination settled for $20.5 million in March 2026^56,57. Tallman’s Boardman experience is the direct link to West Richland³⁰.

Next door, Richland’s Atlas Agro data center near Horn Rapids advanced with all seven Richland council members’ support. Richland’s city manager said an existing option agreement blocked a moratorium there; West Richland has disclosed no such agreement^38,58.

The site’s location relative to Ruppert Road is described as “northeast” by the Journal of Business, “north” by Mayor Brink, and “northwest” by city staff to the council. The comprehensive plan calls the whole ranch “north of Ruppert Road,” so none of the three narrows it; the recorded parcel numbers do^3,17,32,62.

The project’s size is described as “250+ MW” on Interconnection.fyi’s project profile, 912 megawatts in the same tracker’s BPA queue listing, and 500 acres by Compute Atlas. BPA’s own sheet gives no megawatts, and the developer has confirmed nothing^34,35,64,65.

The Center Square reported that residents at the September 10 meeting questioned “a separate city proposal identified as TXT-0006-2026” that could move major industrial decisions to an appointed hearing examiner. No record of TXT-0006-2026 exists on the city’s notices page, its agenda archive, the September 10 packet, or Ecology’s SEPA register. The city’s 2026 amendments run TXT-0002 through TXT-0008 with 0006 and 0007 unaccounted for, West Richland has no hearing examiner, and the Center Square attributes the reading to residents, not the city^30,39,40,60.

The Tri-City Herald reported the Draft EIS “briefly mentions” regional data center demand; a text search of the Final EIS main volume finds no data center analysis^4,24.

The city’s project page still describes the ranch as “zoned for transition to urban development in phases,” and the Journal of Business calls the land “currently zoned agricultural.” Ordinance 07-26 repealed that zone on May 5, 2026^3,26,61.

• SEPA-0002-2025 DNS, January 29 to February 13, 2025: a 15-day window; no comments, no appeal⁶.

• Planning Commission hearing, February 13, 2025: noticed and held, five minutes, no testimony⁹.

• Council hearing, February 18, 2025: noticed and held, one minute, no testimony⁷.

• Council subcommittee, February 4, 2025: voted before any hearing; no agenda or minutes are posted, and the city lists no subcommittees among its public bodies. The Open Public Meetings Act reaches a council committee when it acts for the council, holds hearings, or takes testimony; whether this one was noticed cannot be answered from the city’s postings^8,10,60,78.

• Lewis and Clark Ranch scoping (March 2022), Draft EIS comment (July 3 to August 4, 2025), Planning Commission hearing (April 9, 2026) and council hearing (April 21, 2026): all held, and the ordinance before the council named data centers as a permitted MU-LI use with its own buffer and study rules. The notice, the EIS and the staff presentation did not say so; three residents raised data centers anyway^{19,20,21,23,24,61}.

• Not offered: any project-level hearing. Under the “P” designation and the 2025 DNS’s deferral, a future application is a director’s permit unless the council changes the code^6,10,60.

• Land sale, July 2026: no public step; buyer identities were Delaware LLCs until Mendenhall named Trammell Crow on September 1^3,17.

• September 10, 2026 Planning Commission: a crowd came for a data center item that was not on the agenda^30,39.

• Since August 18, 2026: no routine remote comment at council^17,18.

• The council, by ordinance: amend WRMC 17.13 to make data centers conditional or prohibited, adopt a moratorium under RCW 35A.63.220, or set terms through a development agreement under chapter 14.08, rewritten by Ordinance 10-26 in 2026. The council adopted a six-month moratorium on another land use, less restrictive alternative facilities, by Ordinance 15-26 in July 2026 and reaffirmed it with findings on September 1, so the tool is in current use^41,67,77.

• The Planning Commission: decides conditional use permits if the council ever requires one, and otherwise recommends^16,60.

• Mendenhall, as director and SEPA official: decides Type I and II permits and any project-level SEPA threshold; his determinations can be appealed under WRMC 18.04^6,10,60.

• Courts: a LUPA petition within 21 days of any final decision⁷⁶.

• Benton REA and BPA: L0621 is in study, not under an executed agreement; BPA study results and upgrade costs are unresolved^18,65.

• Ecology and Richland: no water source or right has been identified for a data center; the ranch’s own water depends on the pending application S4-33044(B2), whose status Ecology’s public tools do not show^1,25,71.

• Who is behind WKC31 Development LLC, and why did the land change hands twice in six days at a $181 million markup? The Washington Secretary of State’s foreign-LLC registration would name a registered agent and governors.

• Was the September 2024 BPA request filed on Trammell Crow’s behalf, and who at the city knew of it before the February 2025 vote?

• Was the February 4, 2025 council subcommittee meeting open to the public and noticed?

• Does TXT-0006-2026 exist, and what are TXT-0006 and TXT-0007?

• Does the July 2026 sale include the 37-acre Phase 1 corner of the 473-acre parcel? The recorded agreement 2026-018770 likely says.

• What does the Benton REA cost-recovery agreement say, and how much was deposited?

• What quantity does S4-33044(B2) seek, and where does Ecology’s review stand?

• Will the council adopt a moratorium or a conditional use requirement before an application vests?

• BPA: Bonneville Power Administration
• DNS: Determination of Non-Significance (under SEPA)
• EFSEC: Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council
• EIS: Environmental Impact Statement
• IBEW: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
• LLC: limited liability company
• LUPA: Land Use Petition Act (RCW 36.70C)
• MU-LI: Mixed Use Light Industrial (a Lewis and Clark Ranch subarea zone)
• PDC: Public Disclosure Commission
• PUD: Public Utility District
• RCW: Revised Code of Washington
• REA: Rural Electric Association
• SEPA: State Environmental Policy Act
• TRIDEC: Tri-City Development Council
• WRMC: West Richland Municipal Code