Lamar County v. E.T. Carlyle Co.

Benham, Justice.

E.T. Carlyle Company (“Carlyle”) sought to locate a construction and demolition (“C&D”) landfill in Lamar County on land zoned Agricultural-Residential. When Lamar County denied Carlyle’s request for rezoning, Carlyle filed an action for declaratory judgment and mandamus. In an order ruling on four of the fourteen counts in Carlyle’s complaint, the trial court found that Lamar County did not have a landfill designated as a C&D landfill, that the county’s Solid Waste Management Plan (“SWMP”) prohibited the disposal of C&D waste in the county’s current landfill, and that the…