Friends & Land Owners Opposing Development v. Department of Ecology

Worswick, A.C.J.

A nonprofit association of landowners, styling themselves FLOOD after the popular fashion in acronyms, challenges the definition of "floodway" appearing in Centralia's Shoreline Management Master Program. The narrow question before us is whether the trial court erred in dismissing that challenge by summary judgment. We affirm, holding that although FLOOD proceeded properly in court to mount the challenge, it failed to show the existence of any genuine issue of material fact as to the definition's validity.

The Shoreline Management Act of 1971 (RCW 90.58) both enables and…