Arrow-right Camera
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Huckleberries Online

Asphalt Permit Appeal Dropped

According to the Cd'A Press, a  group of Rathdrum residents has dropped its appeal of the permit allowing Coeur d'Alene Paving to run a batch plant off Highway 53.

"It's good to finally be done with it," said Todd Kaufman, co-owner of Coeur d'Alene Paving. "We knew we were right the whole time, which is why we had to fight it."

Several Rathdrum residents had appealed the permit that the Kootenai County commissioners awarded last year, allowing Coeur d'Alene Paving to operate the plant at its current location permanently.  The group chose to drop the appeal, Kaufman said, when his company agreed to waive more than $4,000 in attorneys fees awarded by 1st District Judge John Mitchell.  The fees were charged because of the group's failure to follow the correct legal process in serving certain documents.

The resolution of these lawsuits, which kept Coeur d'Alene Paving wrapped up in litigation for three years, finally allows the business to purchase the 30 acres where the plant is operated, Kaufman said, as well as an adjacent 20 acres.  Read more here.

Is this result satisfactory?



Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.