Planning panel postpones Dusty zone change request

Whitman County Planning Commission last Wednesday, Oct. 3, voted to postpone the continuation of a zone change hearing on behalf of McCoy Land Company, which asked to stay their request following a meeting Sept. 5 on their proposed four-pad grain pile project just outside Dusty.

The hearing will now resume Feb. 6 of next year.

Before the commission’s meeting last week, McCoy, a subsidiary of Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative, sent a letter to Alan Thomson, Whitman County planner, to announce its intention to seek a conditional use permit for the 66 acres at Dusty.

If granted, the permit wo...