Ryder v. County of St. Charles

FINCH, Judge.

This case was transferred here pursuant to opinion of the Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, in Ryder v. County of St. Charles, Nos. 36571, 36802 and 37025 (Mo.App., filed Sept. 21, 1976), and we decide it as though here on direct appeal.

St. Charles, a second class county, adopted a zoning plan pursuant to §§ 64.510 to 64.690 inclusive. 1 Under that plan certain land owned by plaintiffs (including land on which they had an option to purchase) was zoned A-l (agricultural use). Plaintiffs, desirous of opening and operating an open cut limestone quarry on the 124 acre…