City of Temecula may block quarry

The Temecula City Council and Granite Construction Company may soon be racing each other for ownership of the hills near Rainbow on which Granite Construction wants to build Liberty Quarry.

At a recent meeting, the Temecula City Council agreed to begin a feasibility study on the possibility of annexing the unincorporated land on which Granite Construction has applied for permits to operate.

Granite Construction began the long process of acquiring a permit in 2005. They need a permit only from the county of Riverside because the land in question is unincorporated and falls under the jurisdictio...