Mid-Georgia Environmental Management Group, L.L.L.P. v. Meriwether County

Fletcher, Chief Justice.

The issue in this appeal is whether, because of an alleged procedural flaw in the 1988 enactment of Meriwether County’s zoning ordinance, the County must permit Mid-Georgia Environmental Management Group, L.L.L.P, to build a solid waste landfill on land not zoned for a landfill. Following an evidentiary hearing, the trial court concluded that the County’s zoning ordinance was properly enacted and that the County was entitled to rely on the plain language of the ordinance in refusing to allow the building of the landfill. Because the record supports the trial court’s…