Indiana Court Of Appeals Rules Against Gary Developer

Date: July 10, 2003

Source: News Room

The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that a Gary developer cannot put a landfill in an industrial park, reversing a LaPorte County Superior Court decision that had ruled in favor of Town and Country Utilities' landfill plan. Town and Country took the matter before LaPorte Superior Court over an ordinance that it felt gave the county too much authority in deciding if a landfill could be built. A Superior judge agreed with Town and Country last October, saying the county commission overstepped its bounds and ruling that the zoning ordinance was invalid. But the appeals court ruled last week that the county commission does have authority to adopt zoning ordinances because it regulates the use of land.

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