Key legal question
Whether third-party intervention is available in administrative judicial appeal proceedings.
Extracted holding
The court left the abstract question open, but held that the filing as presented could not be treated as a valid intervention appeal.
Extracted reasoning
Even if civil-procedure intervention rules were applied by analogy, an intervenor must take the case as he finds it. The society did not challenge the non-entry decision or the lack of standing of the prior appellants; instead it argued the merits of the building permit, which the department had not yet examined.