County pushes mining code change hearing
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission is tabling a controversial mining ordinance change after an Aug. 20 workshop made clear that the issue was …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission is tabling a controversial mining ordinance change after an Aug. 20 workshop made clear that the issue was …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
On the Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission agenda for Aug. 27 is a code change that, if enacted, would streamline and simplify the permitting …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Sagle residents opposed to an asphalt batch plant in a local gravel pit have successfully overturned a piece of Bonner County Revised Code that allowed …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Second District Court Judge Jeff M. Brudie handed down an opinion Feb. 5 in the case of the hotly contested Sagle asphalt plant proposal, affirming …
By Cate Huisman
Special to the Reader
The saga of the proposed asphalt batch plant in Sagle continues. It’s a window into how governments make land use decisions and how …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
A petition for judicial review of a decision paving the way for an asphalt plant in Sagle will go before a judge Friday, Dec. 13 …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The saga of the proposed asphalt batch plant in Sagle continues after a District Court judge in Nez Perce County ruled July 26 to deny …
By Jonna Plante
Reader Contributor
This is an open letter to Linscott Gravel, Interstate Concrete and Asphalt, Bonner County Planning & Zoning and Bonner County Commissioners:
Our group is tired …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
County commissioners upheld approval of a conditional use permit for an asphalt batch plant at a reconsideration hearing Friday.
The applicants, Interstate Concrete & Asphalt, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to hold a reconsideration hearing regarding the asphalt batch plant slated for the Linscott gravel pit in Sagle.
The …
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