City of Bellevue v. East Bellevue Community Municipal Corp.

The city of Bellevue (City) challenges a Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board (Board) decision invalidating an ordinance which exempts shopping center redevelopment from certain Growth Management Act1 (GMA) requirements. The City also seeks a writ of prohibition preventing the East Bellevue Community Municipal Corporation from bringing challenges to the City’s actions before the hearings board when such actions fall outside the community corporation’s limited legal powers.

Because the community does not have authority to bring suits challenging ordinances outside its service…