West Main Associates v. City of Bellevue

How courts have described this case

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

• court struck down a municipal ordinance requiring, along with the filing of a complete building permit, city approval of several additional permits before development rights vested
• city ordinance preventing developers from vesting until after a series of permits were obtained ruled unconstitutional
• “Society suffers if property owners cannot plan developments with reasonable certainty, and cannot carry out the developments they begin.”
• “A vested right does not guarantee a developer the ability to build.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).