Saturday, September 28, 2013

Quarry special use request passes county zoning board test | Belvidere Daily Republican

 

Plote attorney Warren Fuller of South Barrington explained the county board had approved an ordinance allowing gravel pits to exist only on industrially zoned land. Plote filed suit, challenging the ordinance and the settlement agreement was reached in court.

That background also answered the recurring question of why the Plote operation never went through an initial special use process, which would have included public hearings. Fuller said the settlement agreement was the special use permit.

But he had no answer to another recurring question: why Plote didn’t renew its special use permit three years ago, which also was part of the court

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