Mercer Island Citizens for Fair Process v. Tent City 4

¶1 The failure to timely challenge a land use decision by means of a Land Use Petition Act (LUPA)1 petition bars any further claims challenging that decision, including challenges to the process for approving that decision. Here, the city’s approval of a temporary use agreement that permitted a church to use its property to host a homeless encampment was a land use decision within the meaning of LUPA because it was a decision on the church’s application for government approval required by law of a property use. Thus, the plaintiff’s failure to *396challenge that decision in a timely LUPA petition…