Hearing Process Nears End

A end of a hearing that will decide whether a mine will be permitted near Temecula was drawing near today.

The hearing began at 9 a.m. at the County Administration Building in Riverside. The crowd was split roughly in half by people opposing the quarry wearing orange hats and T-shirts, and people supporting the quarry wearing green.

This was a big change from previous hearings, during which the vast majority of the crowd was in orange.

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The hearing began with comments from residents both for and against the project, which would dig a 135-acre mine on a site just south of Temecula.

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The hearing was closed to public speakers around 11:30 a.m., since everybody who filled out a permission to speak form had been called, and the let Gary Johnson, the aggregate resources manager for Granite Construction, rebut the anti-quarry speakers.

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