Lane County board reopens record, asks staff to draft ordinance after contested Hazel Dell quarry hearing

The Lane County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 28, 2025 voted 3–2 to direct staff to prepare an ordinance and supporting findings for possible approval of a proposed Hazel Dell quarry plan amendment and to reopen the public record for 14 days (with a further 14 days for the applicant's final rebuttal). The action follows a continued quasi-judicial hearing on a property-owner initiated application to add roughly 46 acres to the county's inventory of significant mineral and aggregate sites, redesignate forest land to natural resource mineral, rezone forest lands to a Quarry and Mine Operations (QM) zone, and obtain site review under Lane Code 16.2574(A)–(J).