that the request "is likely to be unexpected and that it proposes a use for this site which may not be in your *346 current plans for the area." Nevertheless, Mid-Georgia stated its position that the County's zoning ordinance had not been validly adopted and therefore the County's only option was to issue the verification letter. The County responded that it had a zoning ordinance that was validly enacted in 1988 and that the land at issue was not properly zoned for a landfill. Mid-Georgia then filed an action in June 2000 against the County, its zoning administrator, and the members of the County Board of Commissioners seeking a declaratory judgment that the County's zoning ordinance was not validly enacted and the proposed landfill did not conflict withmeeting. The same notice requirements apply to the adoption of amendments to a zoning ordinance.
The record in this case contains certified minutes of the meetings of the Board of Commissioners in 1988. These minutes show that following the first reading of a proposed zoning ordinance in February 1988, the Board held a public meeting, and, following that meeting, made changes to the proposed zoning ordinance. In March 1988, the ordinance, with the February changes incorporated, was then considered in another properly noticed public hearing at which the zoning map was available for review. Finally, on April 6, 1988, the Board considered the zoning ordinance at a noticed meeting and the Board adopted the zoning ordinance without making any other changes.
On August 17, 1988, the Board approved changes to