Columbia County v. Fleming

Claussen Paving Company applied for rezoning of a tract of land to M-2 to allow rock quarrying (strip mining). The board of commissioners delayed the application in order to receive and consider a report on the application to be prepared by a study committee. In approving the rezoning, the board of commissioners imposed most of the conditions on use of the land recommended by the study committee.

One of the recommended conditions was that no quarrying operations be conducted within 2,500 feet of the southeast corner of the adjoining property, on which a junior high school sits. Instead of this…