Alexander (Sandy) W. Mackie

Sandy Mackie has been involved in land use and environmental law policy and practice for 35 years and has occupied leadership roles in serving on the board of the Land Use and Environmental Law section of the Washington State Bar Association and on the Board and ultimately as President of the Planning Association of Washington. As the author of the initial “Short Course in Planning” for the Department of Community Development, he has been a leader in land use education around the state. Most recently Sandy has been appointed the chairman of the Association of Washington Business Land Use and Environmental Law committee addressing legislative policy issues across a wide span of topics, and as AWB’s designee to the Washington State Technical Advisory Group on climate change has been named co-chairman of the Commerce, Transportation, Housing and Energy subcommittee addressing climate change response issues affecting manufacturing, commerce, and housing. He is also the editor in chief of the WSBA update of the Real Property Deskbook, Volumes 5-7, on land use and environmental laws.

Sandy has a number or Court of Appeals and Supreme Court opinions to his credit on key land use and environmental law issues, but spends the bulk of his practice at the ground level, dealing with cities and counties, staffs, appeal boards and agencies, assuring proper implementation of the laws and regulations applicable to land, its use and regulation. Sandy's practice involves constant participation in matters dealing with environmental land use regulations and the issue of property entitlements under the State of Washington's complex land use regulations. He is actively involved in questions dealing with the state's Growth Management Act, State Environmental Policy Act, and Shoreline Management Act, including development of GMA and SMA compliant policies and regulations, regulation of resource lands, critical areas and shorelines. His practice also consists of all steps necessary for the acquisition and litigation of a wide variety of land use permits in cities and counties throughout the State of Washington, including related cases in State Superior Courts, Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court.

Professional Recognition

• Listed in the Best Lawyers in America, in Environmental Law
• Listed in Washington Law and Politics, "Washington's Super Lawyers," 2007 - 2010
• Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell
  (AV®, BV® and CV® are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.)

Professional Leadership

• AWB Puget Sound Partnership committee (AWB committee recommending business policy to the Puget Sound Partnership (Chris McCabe AWB Staff), Co-chair
• National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), Washington State Government Affairs Committee, South Sound Committee
• Washington State Bar Association, Environmental Law and Land Use Section, Director, 1982 - 1985
• Planning Association of Washington, President, 1995 - 1996; First Vice-President, 1996 and 1993 - 1994