Torrance v. King County

We are asked to determine whether a superior court can issue a constitutional writ of certiorari when a county makes a decision not to redesignate property from agricultural to commercial or industrial and the landowner does not exhaust all appeals. In this case, we conclude the superior court cannot, and reverse the decision of the lower court.

*785The controversy surrounds 25 acres of property zoned agricultural in King County, outside the Kent city limits, but inside Kent’s annexation area. The property had been zoned agricultural since 1941, but Torrance acquired the property in the 1960s in…