Opinion ID: 2680443
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Heading: Did the Teton County Board of County

Text: Commissioners (Board) err in concluding that Wyo. Stat. § 18-5-207 does not prevent the County from prohibiting or otherwise regulating or limiting the expansion or enlargement of the use of Roger Seherr-Thoss’s land for continued extraction and processing of gravel when Mr. Seherr-Thoss’s family was using their land for that purpose before the County prohibited it through enactment of the Teton County Land Development Regulations (LDRs)? 1 This opinion refers to the Teton County Board of County Commissioners as the Board when it is acting as the reviewing agency. 1 II. Did the Board err in concluding that its authority to regulate Roger Seherr-Thoss’s grandfathered gravel operation is not preempted by the Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) pervasive regulatory system, which regulates most aspects of the operation including bonding, reclamation, and expansion? III. Did the Board misapply the doctrine of diminishing assets and fail to base its finding that Seherr-Thoss was not permitted any natural and necessary expansion of his family gravel mining operation on substantial evidence? IV. Did the District Court or the Board abuse its discretion in failing to apply the equitable doctrine of estoppel to bar the County from requiring the [sic] Roger Seherr-Thoss to prove the scope and scale of his gravel extraction operations when Seherr-Thoss presented unrefuted evidence that the County purchased gravel from him and then waited nearly twenty years before attempting to shut down his livelihood under the Land Development Regulations? The County phrases the issues on appeal as: I. Whether Wyo. Rev. Stat. § 18-5-207 Authorizes the County to Reasonably Regulate Expansion of RST’s Gravel Operation. II. Whether the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act Preserves a Role for Counties to Regulate Expanded, Nonconforming Gravel Operations.