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Simply A Matter Of Growing Pains? Evaluating The Controversy Surrounding The Growth Management Hearings Boards, Derek W. Woolston
Simply A Matter Of Growing Pains? Evaluating The Controversy Surrounding The Growth Management Hearings Boards, Derek W. Woolston
Washington Law Review
In 1990, the Washington Legislature enacted the Growth Management Act (GMA) intending to reduce urban sprawl and manage development throughout the state. In 1991, the GMA was amended to include an administrative dispute resolution system, involving three independent regional Growth Management Hearings Boards ("Boards") empowered to hear petitions and to determine whether a county or city is complying with the GMA. The breadth of discretion given to the Boards to scrutinize local government land use policies has prompted a barrage of criticism from both local governments and the regulated community. The tension is attributable to factors within the control of …
The Federal Advisory Committee Act: An Obstacle To Ecosystem Management By Federal Agencies, Sheila Lynch
The Federal Advisory Committee Act: An Obstacle To Ecosystem Management By Federal Agencies, Sheila Lynch
Washington Law Review
Ecosystem management, the new guiding concept for federal land management, requires collaboration and information sharing across ownership boundaries, facilitation of changes in social values, and adaptation to new scientific and social information. Particularly in the western states, the federal land management agencies have been involved to varying degrees in innovative collaborative processes with the goal of implementing ecosystem management. However, the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which places numerous procedural requirements on certain federal interactions with non-federal parties, has been cited as an obstacle to federal participation in these efforts. This Comment presents an analytic framework for determining when FACA …