Opinion ID: 1177070
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: judicial history

Text: In Nisqually Delta Ass'n v. DuPont, 95 Wn.2d 563, 627 P.2d 956 (1981), a 5-member majority of this court held that only Weyerhaeuser and Burlington Northern, Inc. (the petitioners of the annexation) had standing to contest the Pierce County Boundary Review Board's approval of annexation of the proposed site of the facility to the City of DuPont. This decision effectively precluded those persons residing near the proposed facility from contesting a significant, integral step toward construction of the project. Nisqually Delta, at 573 (Dore, J., dissenting). As a result of that annexation, Weyerhaeuser owns 3,200 acres of the approximately 3,300 acres comprising the city of DuPont. DuPont's shorelines master program was adopted and approved without comment by the Department of Ecology in June 1975. It was not until 1976 that Weyerhaeuser announced the purchase of the DuPont property and its intention to construct the export facility. It is evident that the citizenry of DuPont did not have in consideration the construction and placement of this substantial project when enacting their shorelines master program and conditional use criteria. In February 1979, DuPont issued and circulated the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) for the Weyerhaeuser export facility. However, prior to the filing of the required applications for substantial development and conditional use permits, Weyerhaeuser determined to alter and move the facility to a location different from that depicted in the FEIS as the proposed or alternate site. It is this alteration of the proposal and subsequent proceedings that give rise to this appeal.