Lawsuit over Initiative to Repeal
Clallam County Critical Areas Code
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Court
decisions
1/6/03 - Ruling
by the State Appeals Court
9/4/02 -Initiative
6 goes to appeals court: Citizens claim right under Constitution has
been sidestepped by unelected board by
Sue Forde, Citizen Review Online
9/4/02 - Transcript
of Oral Arguments before WA State Court of Appeals, Tacoma, WA
5/16/02 - Initiative
6 gets a minor win by
Sue Forde, Citizen Review Online
5/1/02 - Initiative
6 presses forward in the courts to defend constitutional government
-
GMA-related local ordinance repeal stopped before going to voters
- by Sue Forde, Citizen Review
4/27/02 -
Initiative
6 presses forward in the courts to defend constitutional government
-
GMA-related local ordinance repeal stopped before going to voters
- by Sue Forde, Citizen Review
12/7/01 -
Initiative 6 - Repeal of Critical Areas Code - gets submitted for
review to Washington State Supreme Court by Sue Forde,
Citizen Review Online
9/27/01 - Local
physician cites breach of oath of office by county commissioner; judge
dismisses case - by Lois Krafsky-Perry, Citizen Review Online
9/27/01 Recall
petition goes to judge; Initiative petition to go to state Supreme
Court? - Sequim Gazette
9/23/01 - Court
to decide 'sufficiency of complaint' on recall effort
9/21/01 -Activist
plans to continue recall battle - PDN
9/21/01 Repeal
effort gets additional blow - 2nd judge rules on critical area ordinance
PDN
9/19/01 Recall
underway for official - Property-rights activist targets commissioner
- PDN
9/19/01 Recall
filed against county commissioner - Sequim
Gazette
9/19/01 Local
citizen honor promise, and files for recall of county commissioner
- commentary by Anne Wagner, Citizen Review Online
9/19/01 - Local
court rules against initiative right of the people - citizens plan
on taking the issue to a higher court - by Anne Wagner,
Citizen Review Online
9/19/01 - Judge
rules Critical Areas initiative void - Nov. 6 ballot won't present
repeal effort - PDN
9/15/01 - Judge
says he won't force commissioners/auditor to place initiative on ballot
until pro-tem judge rules - by Sue Forde, Citizen
Review Online
9/14/01 - Critical
areas code battle seen as continuing - Sequim Gazette
9/9/01 - Pro
tem judge rules to hear Initiative 6 case - denies citizen's request
for dismissal - Two environmental organizations,
one property rights group, allowed into case - by Anne Wagner &
Lois Krafsky-Perry, for Citizen Review Online
9/9/01 More
about 1000 Friends of Washington
9/9/01 The
Code under which the two elected judges recused themselves
9/5/01 Clallam
County, WA: Two more judges recuse themselves from Initiative 6 hearing
- by Anne Wagner, Citizen Review Online
9/5/01 - There
go the judges! by Lois Krafsky-Perry
9/5/01 - Clallam
County: Commissioners' action against the people shows their contempt
of the voters - a letter from West Seattle LP chair
9/5/01 - Clallam
critical areas issue takes twists - Peninsula Daily News
9/3/01 - Initiative
6 Update: The ongoing battle to get it on the ballot - by
Anne Wagner for Citizen Review Online
9/2/01 -
Critical areas debate continues - PDN
8/29/01 - Clallam
County Commissioners invalidates shoreline regs, but throws I-6 into
the court to keep it off the ballot - PDN
8/24/01 Clallam
County: Pro-tem judge drops out after question of conflict of interest
- initiative backers get minor victory - Anne Wagner, Citizen
Review Online
8/24/01 -
Judge exists critical areas case - PDN
8/24/01 - BIAW
wants to join initiative battle over Critical Areas Code repeal -
Anne Wagner, Citizen Review
8/24/01 - Homebuilders
to request joining lawsuit - KONP
8/24/01 - Eloise
Kailin of PPF (one of the environmental organizations wanting to join
the county in the lawsuit against Bob Forde) comments on the Critical
Areas Code Repeal Initiative - from PPF site
8/23/01 - Clallam
County: County sues citizen over right of initiative - wants to prevent
voters from exercising their right at the ballot - court case
begins Aug. 24th - Anne Wagner, Citizen Review Online
8/23/01 -
Sequim resident fights law he thinks goes too far
- Sequim Gazette
8/23/01 - Critical
areas law initiative in court on Friday - PDN
8/16/01
- Clallam
County: Environmental groups seeks to join lawsuit against citizen
in Critical Areas Code case – wants right to initiative taken from
voters -
by Anne Wagner for Citizen Review
posted 8/16/01
- Transcript
of Clallam County Commissioner's meeting where initiative process
was referred to courts on July 24, 2001
posted 8/16/01
- Testimony
given at Commissioner's meeting on July 24, 2001
Critical
Areas Code, C.C.C. 27.12 (Effective 1/7/2000)
Critical
Areas Code, Public Hearing Draft (328k)
Clallam
County Home Rule Charter (234k)
The above are PDF files - allow
some time for download
Excerpts
from the Critical Areas Code
What
is the Clallam County Home Rule Charter?
CLALLAM COUNTY CRITICAL AREAS CODE
RELATED STORIES
2001
Aug. 8, 2001 - Clallam
County, WA - Critical
Areas Ordinance opponent considers county lawsuit a personal attack,
affront to voter and property rights - PDN
Aug. 5 - Clallam
County: Commissioner Tharinger's take on the Critical Areas Code (he's
the one who determined to turn the matter to the courts rather than
to the voters) - Sequim Gazett]e
Aug. 5 - Charter
has little impact on politicos - commentary by Martha Ireland,
former Clallam County Commissioner
July 25 - Clallam
County: County commissioners circumvent rights of the people
- send initiative to the courts rather than to the ballot box - Citizen Review Online
July 25 - County
to fight Critical Areas Code petition - Sequim Gazette
July 25 - Clallam
County Critical Areas Code repeal headed for court - PDN
July 25 - Commissioners'
actions call for recall, declares local doctor - KONP Radio
July 23 - Clallam
County voters may decide Critical Areas rules on ballot (with comment) - PDN
July 21 - The
count is in: Citizens' critical areas code repeal initiative is headed
for the ballot - Citizen Review Online
July 12 - Critical
Areas Code debate re-ignited
An attempt to throw out the critical areas ordinance has reopened
the debate between property rights and environmental groups over the
need for such a law. - Sequim
Gazette
July 12 - Critical
County Areas -
editorial by the Sequim Gazette
July 10 - Critical
Areas Code Repeal Initiative to go on the ballot - local papers report
July 8 - Clallam
County: Initiative to Repeal the Critical Areas Code gains sufficient
signatures to go on the ballot; next step - to auditor for signature
validations
July 8 - Interpretation
and enforcement of Critical Areas Code creates a burden on the people - commentary by John Kaufmann
July 3 - Letter
to the Editor: Repeal Critical Areas Code - Toni Lyckman
June 27 - Frustrated
Clallam County citizen speaks out about extraordinary requirements
to place property into "pre-man" condition under Critical
Areas Code
June 21 - County
passes amended Critical Areas Code, 2-1 - Lone
commissioner stands against it- PDN
June 7 - Critical
Areas Code revamping makes it tougher on landowners -
Sue Forde
June 2 - "No
compromise," says leader of initiative to repeal Critical Areas
Code - by Lois Krafsky-Perry
Critical
Areas law spurs Sequim dispute ••••
SEQUIM: CRITICAL AREAS ORDINANCE UNDER FIRE AGAIN 2001-04-27
Citizens
rally to overturn Critical Areas Code ••••
Citizens rally to overturn Critical Areas Code By Lois Krafsky-Perry
for Citizen Review Online Port Angeles, WA – 4/24/01
. Activists
mount campaign to repeal Critical Areas Code ••••
Campaign proposed to end critical areas ordinance by Dan Ross, Sequim
Gazette 4/21/01
4/12/2001 Activists
file initiative to repeal the Critical Areas Code - Sequim
Gazette
From the Citizen Review Online:
New
strategies for taking private property overlay the Critical Areas
Code - 1/16/2001
The
'water police' are coming - 1/10/2001
Timber
group charges Critical Areas Code as unconstitutional - 1/9/2001
State
orders tougher land-use rules, calls for bigger buffers •••
1/9/2001
Stories from the year 2000
County
ordinance squelches humanitarian act; harms right of private ownership 12/28/2000
Federation
joins Libertarians to oppose Critical Areas Code Clallam County, WA - 12/13/2000
.Mike
Chapman backs property rights as Commissioner candidate -
says he'll back repeal of CAC - 12/13/2000
County
Work Session Announcement Misinformed Public on Scheduled CAO Plans 8/2/2000
Environmental
Groups challenge CAC - SG, 3/14/2000
The
Embattled Critical Areas Code - 3/10/2000
Staff
promotes Conservation Easements as the easier way "to comply"
with Critical Areas Code Port Angeles, WA 2/2/2000
Local
Libertarian Party pushes to repeal bureaucrat-laden ordinance - 2/1/2000
Initiative
No. 6- Critical Areas Code Repeal Shall Ordinance No. 681, commonly
known as the Clallam County Critical Areas Code -1/28/2000
Libertarians
petition against CAC SG 1/5/2000 and at
Libertarians
petition against CAC SG 1/5/2000 - SG, 1/10/00
Stories from the year 1999
Libertarian
Party files for repeal of Critical Areas Ordinance -
12/30/99
Proposed
Critical Areas Ordinance Hearing Set - 12/2/99
CRITICAL
AREAS ORDINANCE - Observations about the CAO by Lois Krafsky-Perry 9/2/99
Definitions
and Coverage of portions of the Proposed Critical Areas Ordinance
(CAO) of Clallam County, WA. Compiled by Sue Forde - 9/2/99
RECOMMENDED
BUFFER DISTANCES ARE WIDENING in CAO
by Lois Perry - 9/2/99
Citizens
Address CAO Concerns To Commissioners •••
Citizens Address CAO Concerns To Commissioners 7/26/99
Local
Residents Express Shock At Critical Ordinance Proposal Sequim, Washington
- July 19, 1999
About the Clallam County CAC
- From Other News Sources:
Sequim
discusses CAC SG 9/99
Ordinance
identifies critical areas - SG 9/99
CAO
ready for review - SG - 9/99
Randy
Johnson's take on the interim CAO, 12/17/99
County
Commissioners approve the new CAC - SG, 12/30/99
and at http://www.sequimgazette.com/News/CountyNews/ClallamOKscriticalar000194.html
Washington
Environmental Council and Protect the Peninsula's Future have joined
in a lawsuit to set aside the Clallam County Critical Areas Code.
News Stories About Critical Areas
Codes around Washington State
Feb. 2005 - Opponents of Critical Areas Ordinance stage protest -King 5 News
12/1/04 - 'Critical areas ordinance' provokes bitter 'rural vs. urban' dispute - Seattle P-I
12/1/04 - Critical areas a critical matter - Seattle P-I
Nov. 2004 - Referendum drive aims to fight land restrictions - Seattle Times
King
County to enforce critical areas code more strictly, under "Smart
Growth"
Environmental
Performance Review in Thurston County - talks about their CAC
Article
on Snohomish County's Critical Areas Ordinance
Lewis
County braces for endangered steelhead - tougher critical areas ordinances
June 2004 - Property owners discuss Critical Areas Ordinance - Snoqualmie Valley Record
July 2004 - Buffer debate returns - A proposed critical areas ordinance renews debate over the need for buffers to protect fish and wildlife - Bremerton Sun
July 2004 - Open letter to King County about Critical Areas Ordinance - Property Rights research
Court Rulings
Recent
Supreme Court ruling on Recall
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