Platte River Environmental Conservation Organization, Inc. v. National Hog Farms, Inc.

Opinion by

Judge ROTHENBERG.

Plaintiffs, Platte River Environmental Conservation, Inc., Equus Farms, Inc., and Peter H. Coors, appeal the judgment upholding the issuance of construction permits to defendant National Hog Farms, Inc. (National Farms). We affirm.

In October 1988, the Weld County Department of Planning Services (the department) issued permits allowing National Farms to build a swine production facility which, upon completion, would have a capacity for 192,000 swine. The department found that National Farms’ activities were uses allowed by right under the Weld County Zoning…