Smith v. Skagit County

(dissenting)—I dissent. Bereft of the idyllic background created for it by the majority (and not substantiated in the record), Guemes2 is just across the channel from Fidalgo3—both islands a part of Skagit County and subject to zoning and rezoning like any other part of that county.

I, too, have examined the extensive record prepared by the planning commission and presented to the county commissioners. It comes to this court by way of the Skagit County Superior Court from whose judgment this appeal is taken. From this examination, I would present the following as the facts pertinent to the…