Nelson v. Department of Natural Resources

This is a review of a decision of the court of appeals, Nelson v. DNR, 88 Wis.2d 1, 276 N.W.2d 302 (Ct. App. 1979), which reversed a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county, WILLIAM C. SACHTJEN, Circuit Judge, which had affirmed an order of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The position of the DNR is that sec. 144.445, Stats. 1975, authorized it to issue a license for the operation of a solid waste disposal site in Columbia county regardless of the provisions of the Columbia county zoning ordinance which did not authorize the use of the land in question for the operation of a…