Wold v. Lawrence County Commission

MORGAN, Retired Justice.

The action from which this appeal arises was founded in the aftermath of a decision of the Lawrence County Commission (Commission) which granted Golden Reward Mining Company (Mining Company) a waiver of the five-hundred foot (500') buffer zone requirement as required by subpara-graph (M)(2) of the County Zoning Ordinance 5.11.6 (the ordinance). Steven and LaVonne Wold (Wolds) sought to challenge the actions of Commission by instituting this declaratory judgment action in Circuit Court. Mining Company, which had been joined as a party by motion to intervene, filed a…