The purpose of this chapter is to reform the process for judicial review of land use decisions made by local jurisdictions, by establishing uniform, expedited appeal procedures and uniform criteria for reviewing such decisions, in order to provide consistent, predictable, and timely judicial review.
RCW 36.70C.010
Purpose.
Applied in 73 court decisions — leading case 155 Wash. 2d 397 - Watch v. Skagit County (2005)
Most recently applied in Cmty. Treasures v. San Juan County (October 2018)
1995 c 347 s 702.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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