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Seattle Growth Plan Appeal Tests Laws Removing Roadblocks to Housing (www.theurbanist.org)

submitted 5 days ago by CombatWombat@feddit.online to c/seattle

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Washington's Court of Appeals will decide whether the legislature left a major loophole in place when it passed recent laws to prevent zoning changes that increase housing capacity in cities from being mired in lengthy legal appeals.

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 5 days ago

It is preposterous that we have to treat this as a good-faith argument:

Environmental advocate Jennifer Godfrey's case, which has been dubbed the "orca appeal," focuses on the alleged environmental impact of increased housing production on Puget Sound's population of Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW). The appeal contends that the City didn't analyze the impact of increased water runoff and reduced tree canopy on the health of the region's most high-profile megafauna.