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City attorney details multiple growth‑management appeals, estimates $232,000 in outside counsel and staff costs since 2020
Summary
City Attorney Darcy Swetnam briefed the council on consolidated appeals to the Growth Management Hearings Board challenging the city’s comp plan and SEPA decisions, outlined the appellants' claims including inadequate public participation and infrastructure analysis, and estimated roughly $232,000 in outside counsel and attorney costs since 2020 for repeated appeals.
City Attorney Darcy Swetnam briefed the Anacortes City Council on Feb. 23 about a series of local appeals and Growth Management Hearings Board cases challenging the city’s 2025–2026 comprehensive plan and development regulation updates.
Swetnam said two local appeals of a SEPA Determination of Non‑Significance for the 2025 stormwater master plan and several petitions for review before the Growth Management Hearings Board have been consolidated. She summarized the appellants’ principal allegations as presented in their petitions: failure to provide meaningful early and continuous public…
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