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City attorney briefs council on multiple Growth Management appeals and estimated costs to taxpayers
Summary
City Attorney Darcy Swetnam updated the council on consolidated appeals to the Growth Management Hearings Board and other proceedings challenging the city’s 2025 comp plan/development regulations and stormwater master plan, listing issues raised by appellants and estimating roughly $232,000 in outside counsel and staff costs to date related to repeated appeals.
City Attorney Darcy Swetnam gave a detailed briefing on appeals the City of Anacortes is defending, including local appeals to SEPA determinations and several petitions consolidated before the Western Region Growth Management Hearings Board.
Swetnam identified two local appeals challenging the SEPA DNS for the city's 2025 stormwater master plan and multiple petitions challenging the 2025 comp plan and development regulation update (ordinances 5013 and 5014). Appellants have framed issues around public…
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