The Butts County Superior Court has ruled in favor of the property owners in the ongoing battle over a potential rock quarry in Butts County. The property owners want to operate a rock quarry on 462 acres near Fincherville Road, Jack Maddox Bridge Road and Keys Ferry Road. The property, currently zoned agricultural-residential (AR), must be rezoned to heavy industrial (M3) before a quarry can be developed. A mineral resource evaluation estimates there are 36,819,469 net tons of mineable granite and places a new present value of $23,100,000 for the mineral rights. According to a news release from Butts County, on Oct. 14, the Superior Court entered two orders in the pending quarry litigation, Tussahaw Reserves, LLC, et al. v. Butts County, Georgia, ruling in favor of Tussahaw. One order declares the property’s existing AR zoning unconstitutional and directs the county to rezone the property to a constitutional zoning within 60 days. The other reverses the denial of Tussahaw’s use permit application and directs its approval following the rezoning. “Butts County respects the court and the judicial process but respectfully disagrees with these rulings. Accordingly, the county intends to appeal both orders. Because this remains active litigation, the county will present its arguments by way of counsel and its court filings and will have no further comment at this time,” said the county through the news release. Last October, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that a lawsuit…
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