Pursuant to RCW 34.05.482, the authority may use brief adjudicative proceedings for issues identified in this chapter when doing so would not violate law, or when protection of the public interest does not require the authority to give notice and an opportunity to participate to persons other than the parties, or the issue and interests involved in the controversy do not warrant use of the procedures of RCW 34.05.413 through 34.05.476 which govern formal administrative hearings.
Wash. Admin. Code § 182-32-2000