Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed Senate Bill 97 and House Bill 4054 into law. The bills will lower costs for Michiganders by amending the Use Tax Act to exempt from taxation the sale of property, used for production, manufacturing, or recycling of aggregate by the property if the aggregate would be used as an ingredient or component part for…
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News from Minnesota
According to The Star Tribune, Aggregate Industries has withdrawn a request for the city of Cottage Grove, Minn., to annex some of its land near the east metro suburb. The company, which recently has sought to expand, wanted Cottage Grove to annex 120 acres of its property, saying the city is more capable of providing needed services. The annexation request…
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According to the Green Valley News, Vulcan Materials submitted an application for a conditional use permit with the Town of Sahuarita, Ariz., to operate a hot mix asphalt plant at its current sand and gravel mining operation along Old Nogales Highway, just over a half-mile from some of the northernmost homes in Quail Creek. Residents have since raised a number…
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According to KSL TV 5 in Salt Lake City, Draper City and Geneva Rock continue not seeing eye to eye when it comes to Geneva Rock’s request to expand its mining operations at the Point of the Mountain Quarry. The company’s last proposal on mining operations was rejected less than two years ago. Arguments were presented from both sides at…
Read MoreNews from Illinois, Michigan, British Columbia
According to The Times Weekly, the Joliet, Ill., city council postponed until April action on a proposal that could allow quarry blasting near a residential neighborhood. The city council previously tabled a vote to allow for more public input. The parcels in question are owned by VM Land and First Midwest Bank, and the annexation agreement would allow P.T. Ferro…
Read MoreNews from Tennessee, Virginia and California
According to WSMV4 News, people who live close to a rock quarry on Highway 12S in Ashland City, Tenn., said their complaints about noise and damage to their homes have been ignored by city officials. Walker’s Trucking and Excavating owns a quarry that homeowners said they have complained about for years as it is permitted in a residential area. Complaints…
Read MorePermitting – December 2022
News from Arkansas, Colorado Washington County, Ark.’s justices of the peace overturned the county Planning Board’s denial of a permit for an expansion of a quarry operation west of Fayetteville, Ark., according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. An overflow crowd of area residents opposed to the quarry filled the seats and lined the walls of the meeting room as…
Read MoreNews from Washington, South Carolina, Colorado
According to The Herald, in Everett, Wash., a gravel mine that has operated for almost 25 years in Snohomish County is seeking to expand by 56 acres. Some neighbors have questions about truck traffic, noise and impacts to well water. Cadman operates the 425-acre sand, gravel and crushed stone mine off Mountain Loop Highway northeast of Granite Falls, outside city…
Read MoreReports from Pennsylvania and North Carolina
According to the New Castle News, in an August court order, Lawrence County, Pa., Common Pleas Judge John W. Hodge granted New Galilee-based Three Rivers Aggregates LLC a conditional use permit to build a sand and gravel mine on two parcels of land zoned commercial, on the south side of Route 18 just east of Glenkirk Road, and west of…
Read MoreReports from Tennessee and California
• According to The Claiborne Progress, some community members maintain that The Rogers Group’s quarry operation in Speedwell, Tenn., “is ruining the land and polluting the air and water while The Rogers Group shows no regard.” This exaggeration was disputed hands-down by The Rogers Group, which stated, “Crushed stone from the plant in Speedwell is being used in the…
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