Skagit County v. Department of Ecology

This is a certified appeal by the Attorney General and the Washington Departments of Ecology and Game, and by cross appellants Skagit County and Marine Construction and Dredging, Inc. (MCD), from the Superior Court's affirmance of a Shorelines Hearings Board (board) decision. That decision requires the county to strike development permit provisions allowing the placement of dredge spoil on the southeasterly 7 acres of an 11-acre site, but allowing the deposit of spoil on the remaining northwesterly 4 acres. We reverse that portion of the decision which allows spoil to be placed on part of the…