MAYTOWN SAND AND GRAVEL v. THURSTON COUNTY

No. 94452-1.

423 P.3d 223 (2018)

MAYTOWN SAND AND GRAVEL, LLC, Respondent, v. THURSTON COUNTY, Petitioner, Black Hills Audubon Society and Friends of Rocky Prairie, Additional Defendants, Port of Tacoma, a Washington special purpose district, Respondent. Port of Tacoma, a Washington special purpose district, Respondent, v. Thurston County, Petitioner, Black Hills Audubon Society and Friends of Rocky Prairie, Additional Defendants, Maytown Sand and Gravel LLC, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed August 9, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Robert Johnsen , Steven David Robinson , Karr Tuttle Campbell, 701 5th Avenue, Suite 3300, Seattle, WA 98104-7055, Elizabeth Petrich , Thruston County Prosecutor's Office, 2000 Lakeridge Drive SW, Building 2, Olympia, WA 98502-6001, Michael Barr King , Jason Wayne Anderson , Rory Drew Cosgrove , Carney Badley Spellman PS, 701 5th Avenue, Suite 3600, Seattle, WA 98104-7010, for Petitioner.

John Edward Duke Powell , Jed Powell & Associates PLLC, 7191 Wagner Way NW, Suite 202, Gig Harbor, WA 98335-6909, Patrick John Schneider , Steven James Gillespie , Foster Pepper PLLC, 1111 3rd Avenue, Suite 3000, Seattle, WA 98101-3292, Don C. Bauermeister , James A. Hertz , Friedman Rubin, 1126 Highland Avenue, Bremerton, WA 98337-1828, Eric Christensen , Cairncross & Hempelmann, P.S., 524 2nd Avenue, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98104-2323, Carolyn A. Lake , Goodstein Law Group PLLC, 501 S. G Street, Tacoma, WA 98405-4715, for Respondents.


¶ 1 The Land Use Petition Act (LUPA), chapter 36.70C RCW, bars parties from challenging a local land use decision in state court if the parties fail to exhaust the administrative process. RCW 36.70C.030. The central issue in this case is (1) whether that administrative exhaustion rule applies to all tort claims that arise...

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