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		<title>Amicus brief filed with WA Supreme Court.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/amicus-brief-filed-with-wa-supreme-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Bainbridge Shoreline Homeowners joined with several other homeowners groups to file an Amicus Brief with the Washington Supreme Court in the case of the Olympic Stewardship Foundation v. Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board. The brief and an appendix follow. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=10123&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COBI attorney should study results of recent Kitsap Alliance lawsuit.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/cobi-attorney-should-study-results-of-recent-kitsap-alliance-lawsuit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court denied PLF’s petition for a writ of certiorari in the case, Kitsap Alliance of Property Owners v. Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board – a case that challenged Kitsap County’s adoption of regulations that require shoreline property owners who seek building permits to dedicate significant portions of their shoreline as environmental conservation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=10037&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court denies Kitsap Alliance petition.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied our petition for a writ of certiorari. As you know, the petition asked the Court to consider whether a Kitsap County regulation requiring that shoreline property owners who seek building permits dedicate significant portions of their shoreline as environmental conservation buffers violates the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=9981&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court rules that EPA is not above the law.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a precedent-setting victory for the rights of all property owners, the United States Supreme Court today held that landowners have a right to direct, meaningful judicial review if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency effectively seizes control of their property by declaring it to be “wetlands.” The Court ruled in favor of Mike and Chantell Sackett, of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=9966&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutionality of Kitsap shoreline buffers submitted to U.S. Supreme Court.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pacific Legal Foundation’s constitutional challenge to Washington state’s shoreline buffer scheme is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.  The case, Kitsap Alliance of Property Owners v. Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board (KAPO), began over a half decade ago, when Kitsap County, acting under the mandate of Washington’s Growth Management Act, declared all private [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=9888&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SMP Update legal issues forum&#8230; revisited.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 9, 2011, Bainbridge Shoreline Homeowners invited attorney Dennis Reynolds to join us for a discussion of the legal issues surrounding the city’s Shoreline Master Program update. We recorded the presentation for those who couldn’t attend. If you haven&#8217;t seen them, or just can&#8217;t wait to see them again, you can watch the videos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=9835&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kitsap Alliance challenges county-wide planning policies.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Mayors, Matthes, Erickson, Lester and Lent, Each of the Cities with membership in the KRCC are required to ratify the Ordinance (attached) passed by Kitsap County on November 14, 2011 adopting the Amendments to the County-wide Planning Policies. As I understand the rules the Cities have 90 days in which to take that action. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=9598&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court says SMP update is a waste of time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If so, it&#8217;s a horrible waste of money. In a recent blog post, Brian T. Hodges of the Pacific Legal Foundation discussed a Washington State Supreme Court Ruling issued on August 18th&#8230; The average city or county spends several years developing an SMP update.  During this time, it expends thousands of hours of staff and volunteer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=8412&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Potential legal problems with the SMP update.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/potential-legal-problems-with-the-smp-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To COBI Planning Commission and City Council From Gary Tripp, Bainbridge Citizens Buffers do not meet the legal requirement for cause and effect and proportionality The proposed buffers do not meet the legal requirement for nexus (cause and effect) and proportionality. The Planning Commission should ask the City to present a written legal brief describing how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=8299&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Washington State rulings on property rights.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/recent-washington-state-rulings-on-property-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swinomish Indian Tribes and Washington Environmental Council vs. Skagit County The tribes and the WEC argued that Growth Management Act’s Best Available Science requires mandatory buffers and the owners of existing farms must plant 200 ft buffers on all their streams. This would, of course, have put a lot of farmers out of business. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4336687&#038;post=7936&#038;subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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