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		<title>Bainbridge Shoreline Homeowners &#187; Legal Matters</title>
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		<title>Property owners win appeal of Kitsap County critical areas ordinance.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/property-owners-win-appeal-of-kitsap-county-critical-areas-ordinance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Brian T. Hodges, Managing Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation
We just received a published Court of Appeals&#8217; decision in Kitsap Alliance of Property Owners v. Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board. This case involved the intersection of two state statutes, the Shoreline Management Act (SMA) and the Growth Management Act (GMA), chapters 90.58 and 36.70A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2649&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judge rules against activists in San Juan County.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many players in the world of land use planning, regulation and governance. On one side you have property owners. On the other you have a wide range of people and groups who think they know better than anyone else how the property owner&#8217;s land should be used. These groups &#8212; including activists, politicians, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2629&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happens if your home is declared nonconforming?</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/what-happens-if-your-home-is-declared-nonconforming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 15:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, a proposed Critical Areas Ordinance would have declared almost every shoreline home on Bainbridge Island as &#8220;nonconforming&#8221;. We were advised by attorney Dennis Reynolds that this was a &#8220;highly disfavored status&#8221;. Specifically, he said the following&#8230; 

&#8230; the proposal results in the approximate 2,200 developed water front lots on land becoming non-conforming, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1767&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planners must avoid unconstitutional taking of private property.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 13:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Ecology has a webpage that outlines the Shoreline Master Program (SMP) development process. One of the many links helps local planners avoid unconstitutional takings of private property with guidance from the Attorney General&#8217;s Office. Quoting the DOE web page&#8230;
[The AG's] Advisory Memorandum was developed to provide state agencies and local governments with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1797&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shoreline moratorium lawsuit to be filed.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/shoreline-moratorium-lawsuit-to-be-filed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an April 22 memo to the mayor and city council from Gary Tripp, Director, Bainbridge Defense Fund: 
Bainbridge Defense Fund (a Washington non-profit) is assisting six plaintiffs, who will file a class action suit in Superior Court of the State of Washington against the City of Bainbridge Island for monetary damages arising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1830&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatcom County loses challenge to Shoreline Master Plan</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/whatcom-county-loses-challenge-to-shoreline-master-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Building Industry Association of Whatcom County (BIAWC) won a major victory April 14, before Skagit County Superior Court in the challenge to the County’s adoption of a new Shoreline Management Plan (SMP). Superior Court Judge Michael Rickert ruled that the Whatcom County Council majority violated the County Charter by rushing through approval of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1730&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatcom County builders challenge County&#8217;s SMP</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/whatcom-county-builders-challenge-countys-smp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Building Industry Association of Whatcom County (BIAWC) has filed a prehearing brief before the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board (WWGMHB) in the challenge to the County’s adoption of a new Shoreline Management Plan (SMP). The County’s new SMP applies new land use regulations to all unincorporated land touching marine waters, larger rivers, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1651&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blakeley Harbor dock ban appealed.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/blakeley-harbor-dock-ban-appealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED 
A recent appeals court ruling said that it was OK for the City of Bainbridge Island to limit private docks on Blakeley Harbor. The city’s current Shoreline Master Program says that nobody will be allowed to build a new dock for use by a single property owner anywhere in the harbor. The only docks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1578&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victory for King County property owners.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/victory-for-king-county-property-owners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 3, the Washington Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge of an appeals court decision on July 7, 2008, which overturned part of King County&#8217;s critical areas ordinance. The CAO prevented rural property owners from developing up to 65% of their land. 
In July, attorney Brian Hodges, who sued on behalf of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1410&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Court says city can limit docks on Blakeley Harbor.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/city-can-limit-docks-on-blakeley-harbor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congrats to Christopher Dunagan of the Kitsap Sun for scooping the Review on a story about an appeals court decision that says it&#8217;s OK for the City of Bainbridge Island to limit docks on Blakeley Harbor. 
The city&#8217;s current Shoreline Master Program says that nobody will be allowed to build a new dock for use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1393&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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