Legal Opinion
City of Federal Way v. Town & Country Real Estate, LLC
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided April 5, 2011No. 39407-3-IIPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
¶1 — Town & Country Real Estate LLC, Frank A. Scarsella, and Emil R Scarsella (collectively Town & Country) appeal the superior court’s reversal of the City of Tacoma’s hearing examiner’s decision striking a State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)1 traffic impact mitigation payment from Tacoma’s conditional approval of a proposed residential development. Town & Country argues that (1) we must give special deference to the hearing examiner’s legal conclusions; (2) RCW 82.02.020’s definition of “direct impact” does not encompass the traffic effects that the proposed development will generate; (3)…
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