Trisko v. City of Waite Park

OPINION

HAROLD W. SCHULTZ, Judge.

Appellant Meridian Aggregates Company challenges the trial court’s summary judgment for respondent City of Waite Park denying Meridian’s application for a conditional use permit to operate a rock quarry. Because we conclude that the city’s denial of the permit was unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious, we reverse and order the issuance of the appropriate conditional use permit.

FACTS

Appellant operates a 98-acre rock quarry on a 250-acre site and owns an adjacent 142-acre parcel of property that it purchased in 1992 from another mining company on which it plans…