Lakeside Industries v. Thurston County

Lakeside Industries applied for a special use permit to construct an asphalt manufacturing and *891recycling plant in the Nisqually Valley. Although Thurston County (County) opposed the project, it issued Lakeside a mitigated determination of nonsignificance under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), chapter 43.21C RCW. Finding that the project met the specific conditions of the county code, a hearing examiner approved the permit. But the county commissioners reversed the decision, concluding that the project was not consistent with the general purposes of the Nisqually Sub-Area Plan, a…