FoSV Petition for Review to GMHB

On March 4, 2020 Friends of Sammamish Valley - along with 10 other co-petitioners - submitted a Petition for Review to the Washington State Growth Management Hearings Board challenging King County Ordinance 19030 (aka the Adult Beverage Ordinance).

Click here or the image below to access a PDF of the full petition.

Futurewise has also filed their own Petition for Review and we are working closely with them. Futurewise is a state-wide organization that focuses on proper implementation of GMA and is arguably the definitive voice on GMA issues.

The next step in the process will be, likely within a week, issuance of an initial prehearing order by the Board. It will set a date for a telephonic prehearing conference to be convened in the next couple of weeks by the three-member Board.  At the conference, the Board typically takes up with the parties such matters as: simplification and/or combination of appeal issues, the date on which  the County will provide to the Board and the Petitioners an Index to the County's Record on the Ordinance, due dates and page limits for the parties' legal briefs, the appeal hearing date, and whether there will be any "dispositive" motions in advance of the actual hearing. 

A “dispositive” motion in our favor means the Board ruled in our favor without hearing further testimony. This is highly unlikely. The eventual appeal hearing consists of lawyers' oral arguments and Board questions without any new testimony by witnesses or the general public. The Board does not make a decision on the spot but will issue a written decision no later than 180 days from the date the original Petitions for Review were filed with the Board.