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Zoning—Judicial Enforcement Of The Duty To Serve The Regional Welfare In Zoning Decisions—Save V. City Of Bothell, 89 Wn. 2d 862, 576 P.2d 401 (1978), Michael H. Rorick
Zoning—Judicial Enforcement Of The Duty To Serve The Regional Welfare In Zoning Decisions—Save V. City Of Bothell, 89 Wn. 2d 862, 576 P.2d 401 (1978), Michael H. Rorick
Washington Law Review
After briefly noting the background of relevant Washington law, Part I of this note analyzes the SAVE court's reasoning to reveal indications of an underlying interventionism in its review of the rezone. Part II assesses the problems of such judicial intervention, first in the exclusionary zoning cases relied upon by the SAVE court for its regional welfare standard, and then in the context of zoning actions with the kind of extralocal environmental impacts presented by SAVE. Finally, arguments favoring increased judicial intervention are presented. The note concludes that there are both practical and doctrinal justifications for heightened judicial scrutiny of …