In the second SMP Citizen's Advisory Committee meeting, Eleanore Baxendale, from the City Attorney's office, presented a review of the legal definition of the standard that there be "no net loss" to the environment from the implemntation of a revised SMP.
Committee staff Margaret Glowacki subsequently sent the following background information to the committee:
Protect case:
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v. Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board, 161 Wn.2d 415, 427-430, 166 P.3d 1198 (2007).
Link to Attorney General's Guidelines on Takings:
http://www.atg.wa.gov/uploadedFiles/Home/About_the_Office/Takings/2006%20AGO%20Takings%20Guidance.pdf
Link to Ecology's guidance on "No Net Loss"
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/0406020.html