Note: The following is not a verbatim transcript of the Zoning Hearing Board meeting; it is simply one person’s summary of the major points made by those involved in the hearing process.  For that reason, quotation marks are not used unless a direct quote was recorded.  For information about obtaining an official ZHB transcript, contact the New Hanover Township office.

What is GR 2?

Mr. Stephen Harris, attorney for Gibraltar Rock began by introducing Mr. Alan K. Stagg to GR2.  As many of you know, Stagg was offered as an expert witness on “Economic Geology” in GR1.  Harris placed into GR2 all of Stagg’s testimony from GR1 including his testimony from Oct. 2002, December 2002, January 2003, March 2003.

Mr. Lawrence Sager, (representing Louis Farrell of Atomic International) began his cross-examination of Stagg.  Sager got Stagg to admit that Stagg did not review the mining application but only reviewed the mining plan.  Sager kept trying to get him to correlate the zoning ordinance with economic viability. It appeared that he (Stagg) only reviewed some of the planning information and did not review external cases for mines with 100T-400T tons/year.

After about an hour, Sager had no more questions. Mr. Bob Brant, township attorney had none either.

Harris asked Stagg a few questions to clarify his earlier statements and Sager objected to the fact that Stagg did not do any analysis of the economic viability of different size quarries.

Unbelievably, the meeting ended early and the meeting for the next night, Feb 17^th was cancelled.

The next GR 2 meeting is April 20, 2005 at the New Hanover Township Building, 7:00 PM.