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DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES v. THURSTON COUNTY

No. 45816.

92 Wn.2d 656 (1979)

601 P.2d 494

THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, ET AL, Respondents, v. THURSTON COUNTY, ET AL, Appellants.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

October 4, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick D. Sutherland, Prosecuting Attorney, and Alexander W. Mackie, Special Deputy, for appellant Thurston County, et al.

Thomas H.S. Brucker, Roger M. Leed, and Smith, Brucker, Winn & Ehlert, for appellant Lake Lawrence Public Lands Protection Association, et al.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and J. Lawrence Coniff, Jr., Assistant, for respondent State.

Philip P. Malone, for respondent Lake Lawrence, Inc.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, Charles B. Roe, and Robert V. Jensen, Assistants, amici curiae.

HOROWITZ, J.

The central issue raised by this appeal is whether the Thurston County Board of County Commissioners, considering whether to deny a preliminary plat on environmental grounds, is bound by a finding of the Shorelines Hearings Board in a related proceeding that the plat is adequate to protect the environmental resource. We hold the County Board is not precluded from reaching a different conclusion on the environmental issue and denying the plat, and that...

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