Local Ordinance, Wetlands

King County’s Critical Areas Ordinance Update: What to Expect

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 8/7/2025

King County is in the final stretch of updating its Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO), with adoption expected by December 2025. The CAO governs protections for environmentally sensitive areas—like wetlands, streams, aquifers,...more

Is a Wetland Mitigation Project Permitted in an Area Zoned "Agricultural Residential"?: New Jersey Appellate Court Opinion

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/14/2018

A New Jersey appellate court addressed in a July 31st opinion whether a wetlands mitigation project is permitted in an agricultural residential zone. See Baduini v. Land Use Bd. Of Independence Township Docket No.,...more

Conservation Commission Retains Authority to Regulate under Stricter Local Law Despite MassDEP Superseding Order of Conditions

Beveridge & Diamond PC on 10/12/2017

The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently held that a Superseding Order of Conditions issued by the MassDEP under the Wetlands Protection Act (WPA) does not divest a municipal Conservation Commission from all authority to...more

Court of Appeal Upholds Issuance of Erosion-Control Permit as Ministerial and Exempt from CEQA

Holland & Knight LLP on 5/12/2017

In Sierra Club et al. v. County of Sonoma et al. (2017 WL 1422533), the California First District Court of Appeal held that the issuance of an erosion-control permit by the Agricultural Commissioner of Sonoma County...more

Local Wetlands Bylaw Decision Survives Pre-emption Challenge

Beveridge & Diamond PC on 3/8/2016

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has again upheld the validity of a local conservation commission’s ruling under a local wetlands bylaw notwithstanding that the commission’s partial reliance on the State Wetland Protection Act...more

Local Ordinance › Wetlands

King County’s Critical Areas Ordinance Update: What to Expect

Is a Wetland Mitigation Project Permitted in an Area Zoned "Agricultural Residential"?: New Jersey Appellate Court Opinion

Conservation Commission Retains Authority to Regulate under Stricter Local Law Despite MassDEP Superseding Order of Conditions

Court of Appeal Upholds Issuance of Erosion-Control Permit as Ministerial and Exempt from CEQA

Local Wetlands Bylaw Decision Survives Pre-emption Challenge

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