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Figure 1 sets out a complete list of the 49 counties and cities required to publish reports. The four <br />excluded from the survey are marked with an asterisk. <br />Figure 1 -The 49 counties and cities required to report performance on permit review timeliness <br />* These communities were included in the audit, and excluded from the audit survey. <br />■ Clark County <br />Mercer Island <br />Snohomish County* <br />Battle Ground <br />Redmond <br />Edmonds <br />Camas <br />Renton <br />Everett <br />Vancouver* <br />Sammamish <br />Lake Stevens <br />■ King County <br />SeaTac <br />Lynnwood <br />• Auburn <br />Seattle <br />Marysville <br />• Bellevue <br />Shoreline* <br />Mill Creek <br />• Bothell <br />Tukwila <br />- Mountlake Terrace <br />• Burien <br />u Kitsap County <br />Mukilteo <br />• Covington <br />Bainbridge island <br />■ Thurston County <br />• Des Moines <br />Bremerton <br />Lacey <br />Federal Way <br />■ Pierce County <br />Olympia <br />• Issaquah <br />Bonney Lake <br />Tumwater <br />• Kenmore <br />Lakewood <br />;: Whatcom County <br />• Kent <br />Puyallup <br />• Bellingham* <br />Kirkland <br />Tacoma <br />Maple Valley <br />University Place <br />We included five additional governments in our survey. They met the population requirements for <br />reporting but were located east of the Cascades, and therefore not required to report their performance. <br />We included them to determine if any governments not required to report nonetheless published <br />information on their permit review times. However, even though all five responded, we ultimately <br />decided not to include their results in the report. <br />Survey response <br />Of the 45 surveyed governments, 42 responded, for a 93 percent response rate. <br />Response validation <br />For those governments that responded that they posted reports on their permit review time <br />performance, we obtained the posted reports and reviewed them against the required elements in state <br />law. However, we did not test one of the required elements - variance of actual performance - because <br />we found the meaning of this element to be ambiguous. We also searched the public websites of the <br />three governments that did not respond to our survey to see if they posted reports. All did so, and we <br />reviewed those we found. <br />Growth Management Act Appendix B I <br />