AN ACT Relating to granting local governments the authority to make challenges related to growth management planning subject to direct review in superior court.
The legislature finds that local elected officials are appropriately responsible and responsive to their citizens regarding land use decisions within their communities. The legislature also finds that citizens of these local governments have suffered significant financial and other costs resulting from reviews of disputes by the growth management hearings board that are subsequently resolved in a court of law. The legislature intends to relieve this additive burden of process by allowing jurisdictions with fewer government resources the ability to seek judicial interpretations of the growth management act without the costly and time-consuming practice of an initial review by the growth management hearings board.
HB 1213 http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/…/Bills/House%20Bills/1213.pdf
