Mountaintop Trucking is looking to renew its earth excavation permit – likely for the last time. The Planning and Zoning Commission will be reviewing the application for the renewal at its meeting Wednesday, City Planner Jeremy Leifert said. It is the ninth time the renewal has come before the commission since about 2005. Danny Stoughton, owner of Mountaintop Trucking, which produces aggregate from material excavated on the property, said the quarry is reaching its end. The quarry renewal repeats every two years, Leifert said. Since the surrounding area is commercially zoned, he doesn’t anticipate “the same pushback” that occurred last spring when O&G Industries and Haynes Aggregates Torrington jointly renewed their permits to excavate a quarry in a more residential area of Winsted Road. In those hearings, neighbors complained of noise from blasting and raised environmental concerns.
Torrington commission to review renewal application of quarry site