Experience

Erin Anderson practices as Of Counsel in the Natural Resources and Land Use practice group.

Erin has extensive experience in representing property owners, municipal entities, and developers, including energy facility developers, in permitting major projects. Erin's experience on behalf of property owners includes planning, negotiating development agreements, and successful defense of issued permits on appeal. On behalf of public sector clients, she has negotiated water supply, delivery, and use policies and agreements; annexation and development agreements for small and large-scale planned mixed development projects; and has guided major capital facility projects from inception through SEPA, innovative cost-sharing negotiations, alternate procurements and permitting, through completion of construction. Erin has been successful in both bringing and defending appeals brought under Washington's Growth Management and Land Use Petition acts. Erin also represents wind energy facility developers in both local land use and Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council proceedings.

Before joining Stoel Rives, Erin worked for 11 years at the central Washington firm of Cone Gilreath, where she served as the Cle Elum city attorney and South Cle Elum town attorney, and represented various regional governmental agencies and districts. While representing Cle Elum, she assisted in creating strategies to enable economic growth, manage utility rates, and promote capital facilities construction in conjunction with the development of Suncadia, a 6,000-acre major four-season destination resort adjacent to Cle Elum. From 1993-1996 she was employed as an associate at Halverson Applegate, P.S. in Yakima, where she worked extensively on zoning, facilities permitting, and impact fees issues under various statutory regimes.

Representative Work

• J.R. Simplot, Inc. v. Knight, 139 Wash. 2d 534, 988 P.2d 955 (1999)
• Lathrop v. State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, 130 Wash. App. 147, 121 P.3d 774 (2005)
• SCM Group USA, Inc. v. Protek Machinery Co., 136 Wash. App. 569, 150 P.3d 141 (2007)
• Tugwell v. Kittitas County, 90 Wash. App. 1, 951 P.2d 272 (1997)

Professional Honors & Activities

• Member, Real Property, Environmental Land Use and Probate & Trust sections

Presentations

• "Transmission: How It Works; Affected Parties; Permitting Across Multiple Jurisdictions," The Seminar Group's Developing Wind Power in the Northwest, November 12-13, 2009, Seattle, WA
• "Law of Renewable Energy: Key Substantive Issues in Siting and Permitting Renewable Energy Facilities," EUCI webinar, Jun. 1, 2009
• "Vehicle Electrification and Charging Infrastructure Development - Funding Opportunities and Challenges under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," 5th Annual Power UP! Electrifying Transportation Summit, Wenatchee, WA, May 28, 2009
• "Key Issues in Wind Power Project Economics," AWEA Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Workshop, Portland, Oregon, Sep. 23, 2008
• "Environmental Issues for Washington Wineries and Vineyards," Winery and Wine Distribution Law, Quincy, Washington, Aug. 11, 2008
• "Siting and Permitting Challenges," Renewable Energy in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle, Washington, Aug. 7-8, 2008
• "Land Use and Water Rights Issues Affecting Washington Vineyards and Wineries," Annual Stoel Rives, LLP Wine Law Seminar, Walla Walla, Washington, Jun. 24, 2008
• "Any Way the Wind Blows: Wake effect and Its Impact on Upwind and Down Wind Facilities," AWEA Windpower 2008, Houston, Texas, Jun. 1-4, 2008
• "Wind Energy in the Pacific Northwest," NEBC Canada-Making Renewable Projects Happen, Portland, Oregon, Apr. 24, 2008
• "Alternative Procurement and Funding in Washington State," Land Use in Southwestern Washington, Vancouver, Washington, Feb. 11-12, 2008
• "Economics of the River: Wind Power in the Pacific Northwest," The Mighty Columbia, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 15-16, 2007
• "Washington Oil and Gas Land Use and Environmental Issues," Northwest Energy Association Annual Symposium, McMinnville, Oregon, Sep. 21, 2007

Civic Activities

• Volunteer, Legal Aid Service of Oregon, Multnomah County Office, Portland, Oregon

Publications

• "BonaFide Purchaser Doctrine," Washington State Bar Association Real Property Deskbook Ch. 41, 1997, 2000-2002 Supplement
• "Washington Supreme Court Affirms State Siting Council's Authority to Permit Alternative Energy Facilities," Renewable Energy Law Alert, Nov. 21, 2008
• The Law of Ocean and Tidal Energy, A Guide to Business and Legal Issues, Stoel Rives LLP, Second Edition, 2008
• "Permitting and Land Use," Lex Helius: The Law of Solar Energy, A Guide to Business and Legal Issues, Stoel Rives LLP, First Edition, 2008

Education

• University of Washington School of Law, J.D., 1993
• University of Idaho College of Law, 1991
• Central Washington University, B.A., 1990, summa cum laude

Admissions

• Oregon
• Washington

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