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Wash. Rev. Code § 47.52.080 (2026)

Abutter's right of access protected—Compensation

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No existing public highway, road, or street shall be constructed as a limited access facility except upon the waiver, purchase, or condemnation of the abutting owner's right of access thereto as herein provided. In cases involving existing highways, if the abutting property is used for business at the time the notice is given as provided in RCW 47.52.133, the owner of such property shall be entitled to compensation for the loss of adequate ingress to or egress from such property as business property in its existing condition at the time of the notice provided in RCW 47.52.133 as for the taking or damaging of property for public use.
[ 1983 c 3 s 127; 1961 c 13 s 47.52.080. Prior: 1955 c 54 s 2; 1951 c 167 s 11; 1947 c 202 s 7; Rem. Supp. 1947 s 6402-66.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1958–2018 · leading case: Union Elevator & Warehouse Co. v. State, 980 P.2d 779 (Wash. Ct. App. 1999).
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Union Elevator & Warehouse Co. v. State, 980 P.2d 779 (Wash. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 4× “Union contends the use of the phrase “adequate ingress to or egress from such property” as used in RCW 47.52.080 indicates a legislative intent to apply reasonable or adequate access property rights to nonabutting properties as well as abutting property owners.”
McMoran v. State, 345 P.2d 598 (Wash. 1959). · cites it 4× “" RCW 47.52.080. *42 The court found, in conformity with the stipulated facts, that the appellant owned property in Chelan county, and that "said property lies immediately east of and abuts upon Primary State Highway No.”
State v. Wineberg, 444 P.2d 787 (Wash. 1968). · cites it 3× “Appellant seeks to come within RCW 47.52.080 which provides: No existing public highway, road or street shall be constructed as a limited access facility except upon the waiver, purchase, or condemnation of the abutting owner’s right of access thereto as herein provided.”
Brian Byrd v. Pierce Cnty., 425 P.3d 948 (Wash. Ct. App. 2018). “The County asserted that the deed language clearly prohibited commercial access to the Subject Property, and RCW 47.52.080 allowed access to, from, and between limited access highways and abutting properties only to the extent authorized in a deed.”
State Ex Rel. Sternoff v. SUP'R CT. FOR KING CTY., 325 P.2d 300 (Wash. 1958). · cites it 2× “By the enactment of RCW 47.52.080, the legislature has sought to protect owners of property abutting upon existing highways by providing: “No existing public highway, road or street shall be constructed as a limited access facility except upon the waiver, purchase, or…”
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