Real Estate & Land Use

Last week, the Bellevue City Council received a progress update from the City on the sign code updates that were initiated in Council last year. The updates stem from a 2015 United States Supreme Court...

HCMP is pleased to welcome Layla Khademi to the firm’s Land Use practice group. Layla is a 2025 graduate of Seattle University School of Law, where she was actively involved in student organizations focused...

On October 24, 2025, HCMP attorneys Josh Friedmann and Alex Wu secured a dismissal in King County Superior Court of a land use appeal challenging Plymouth Housing Group’s Permanent Supportive Housing...

In May of 2025, Governor Bob Ferguson signed a pair of bipartisan bills to ease the subdivision of urban lots for infill housing use and development. Specifically, HB 1096 requires cities to implement a...

In July 2018, the Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act (WUCIOA) went into effect, establishing a comprehensive legal framework for all newly formed condominiums, plat communities, and other...