Save Our Rural Environment v. Snohomish County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the practice of spot zoning is not invalid per se
• holding that the practice of spot zoning is not invalid per se
• holding that no illegal spot zoning occurred where a new “business park zoning classification provides a flexible means to broaden the industrial base of the region and to produce energy and travel time savings for employees”
• reconciling RCW 36.01.050 with RCW 4.12.030, which provides for changing venue
• \SEPA is essentially a procedural statute to ensure that environmental impacts and alternatives are properly considered by the decision makers\ and \was not designed to usurp local decisionmaking\
• ‘When faced with a challenge to a county’s rezone action on the grounds the rezone constitutes an illegal spot zone, the main inquiry is whether the zoning action bears a substantial relationship to the general welfare of the affected community.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).