Clay County planning panel recommends revocation and reissue of quarry conditional-use permit with new limits

The Clay County Planning and Zoning Commission on July 1 voted to recommend that the County Commission revoke an existing conditional-use permit (CUP) for an existing rock quarry and to recommend approval of a replacement CUP with new, stricter conditions that the applicant accepted.

The action matters because staff told the commission the current CUP’s renewal conditions from 2024 were not met by the owner and that neighbors had raised concerns; the commission’s recommendation now goes to the Clay County Commission for final action at its July 17 meeting at 6 p.m. in this room.

Planning staff said the quarry has had a CUP for resource extraction since February 2009, and the permit was administratively renewed in 2024. Staff told commissioners that many conditions from the 2009 and 2024 approvals were carried forward into the new draft CUP and that the applicant and an adjacent property owner met with staff and agreed to updated conditions. The staff report recommended approval with 22 conditions; staff said 18 of the 22 conditions were carried forward from 2024 and 15 date to the 2009 CUP.

Key new or tightened conditions in the draft the commission approved to forward include: increasing the minimum blasting setback from property lines to 250 feet (and no…