§ 16.7 - Conclusion

• Jurisdiction: Washington

§16.7 CONCLUSION

LUPA has clarified and simplified the task of appealing local land use decisions. In LUPA, the legislature has dispensed with a number of the archaic practices under the certiorari statute; it has defined the actions to which LUPA applies; and it has established a procedure for review. But the statute has also created uncertainties. In decisions such as Samuel's Furniture, Inc. v. State Department of Ecology, 147 Wn.2d 440, 54 P.3d 1194 (2002), and Chelan County v. Nykreim, 146 Wn.2d...