Durocher v. King County

This is an appeal from a preliminary determination by the superior court that the King County Coun cil’s act of granting an “unclassified use permit” was an administrative act not subject to referendum but that such action was void because the county council is without power, under the home rule charter, to act in an administrative capacity.

In September 1969, respondents, Weyerhaeuser Properties, Inc., for its lessee, Stoneway Concrete, Inc. (hereinafter referred to jointly as Weyerhaeuser), made application to Kong County for an “unclassified use permit”. They sought authority to excavate…