Stalemate: Dusty grain pads zone change postponed

The Whitman County Planning Commission has postponed a continuation of a zone change hearing set for Oct. 3 for a grain facility proposal on Highway 26 next to Dusty.

The first part of the hearing Sept. 5 drew a crowd to the Public Service building in Colfax to largely counter the county planning department’s recommendation to approve a four-pad grain pile project a hundred yards outside of Dusty.

The Oct. 3 hearing was held off by request of McCoy Land Company, a subsidiary of Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative which owns the land in question.

“It’s on hold until they decide what they want...