GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. -- It was a celebration inside the Old Guilford County Courthouse Thursday night.

County commissioners voted unanimously against the rezoning of a rock quarry in Pleasant Garden.

There were claps, cheers and some tears at Thursday night’s commissioners meeting.

"I am so proud and so happy. We worked so hard for so many months," resident Lisa Rierson said.

Guilford County commissioners voted eight to zero for the rezoning of the 350-acre site proposed for a rock quarry.

Commissioners say Lehigh Hanson, the company supporting the quarry, planning to build on land for heavy industrial use in the Pleasant Garden community is "incompatible."

Residents said they did not want a quarry there.

"The people were concerned about a lot of different issues, water traffic and those type of things," Commissioner Alan Perdue said.

Leigh Hanson proposed the area surrounding the granite quarry would be a safe area for more than 2,000 residents, but commissioners thought otherwise.

"We put on our best case. We hired excellent experts. We went to the board. I think the board listened but they decided in a way that we wish they had not," said the attorney for Lehigh Hanson, Tom Terrell.