Buechel v. Department of Ecology

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Board’s denial of permit and variance, despite its previous grant of permit in similar situation, was not arbitrary and capricious
• interpreting a state environmental statute that required preclusion or significant interference with reasonable use of the property
• stating the SMA “contemplates protecting against adverse effects to the public health, the land and its vegetation and wildlife, and the waters of the state and their aquatic life, while protecting generally the public right of navigation and corollary rights incidental thereto”
• the enforcement of land use regulations is not estopped based on prior decisions concerning other property
• “The SMA is to be broadly construed in order to protect the state shorelines as fully as possible.”
• “The total of all approved shoreline management master programs constitute Washington State’s Shoreline Management Master Program.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).