Growth Management Hearings Board Rules Against Thurston County’s Mazama Pocket Gopher Review Process
Olympia, WA – Last Friday afternoon, the Western Washington Region of the Growth Management Hearings Board (GMHB) issued its Final Decision and Order stating that Thurston County’s 2015 Interim Process for reviewing permits in Mazama Pocket Gopher soils violated the state’s Growth Management Act (GMA). The ruling was in response to attorneys for Olympia Master…