Letters

County did not cut the hours at Quarry

Your December 22 article on Judge Nichols' decision in the Stevens Creek Quarry litigation is based on an incorrect premise. The article repeatedly suggests that the Board of Supervisors limited the quarry's hours of operation in some way.

While the Planning Commission had acted to restrict the hours during which loading and hauling operations could be unertaken, the Board of Supervisors restored those hours of operation to precisely the same hours that were negotiated with, and agreed to by, the quarry in the mid-1980's.

The Board's action did make it clear that those hours of operation also applied to equipment rental activities, as had also been established in the mid 1980's, but there were not permit modifications which acted to limit the Quarry's hours of operation in any way whatsoever.

James Lewis
Deputy County Counsel

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