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Both intersections will be at -grade crossings equipped with stop <br />signs for mine traffic. Traffic on Little Turkey Creek Road will not <br />be required to stop. Establishing the intersection requires <br />realigning Little Turkey Creek Road for approximately 400 feet to <br />remove unnecessary curves. <br />15. At the hearing, Robert Stabo ("Mr. Stabo") testified on behalf of the <br />Applicant. Mr. Stabo stated that, under the proposed blasting plan in the <br />Application, traffic will not be permitted through the quarry on Little Turkey Creek <br />Road for a period of time. Amy Eschberger testified for the Division that the <br />Applicant's blasting plan provided that: blasts may occur up to three times per week; <br />prior to a blast, "access corridors will be secured for the length of time needed to <br />successfully complete the blast;" a typical length of time for a blast is approximately <br />thirty minutes, but that access corridors may be secured for a longer, unspecified, <br />period in the event of a misfire. Segments of one or both branches of Little Turkey <br />Creek Road into and through the mining operation constitute "access corridors." <br />16. At the hearing, Fire Chief Hartmut Wright ("Chief Wright") testified <br />about the dangers of fly rock related to blasting, that approximately ninety percent <br />of the residents near the proposed operation are more than fifty years of age, and <br />about the importance of emergency vehicles having access through the quarry on <br />Little Turkey Creek Road. Chief Wright further testified that the Front Range is <br />an area of extreme fire danger, and that the area of the proposed operation presents <br />a high potential that a fire would spread because it is in a box canyon. <br />17. RMBC Group, LLC is the owner of the Hitch Rack Ranch. At the <br />hearing, the Applicant offered into evidence an "Owner's Acknowledgement," <br />signed by RMBC Group, LLC on September 15, 2016, stating that pursuant to a <br />royalty agreement between RMBC Group, LLC and the Applicant, that the <br />Applicant "has the legal right to enter upon [Hitch Rack Ranch] for the purpose of <br />mining operations and the extraction of construction aggregates." The Division <br />testified that it has received the Owner's Acknowledgment. The Board admitted <br />the Owner's Acknowledgement into evidence over objection by counsel for Objector <br />Cheryl Kimble. <br />18. One or more residents of the Eagles Nest subdivision possess a non- <br />exclusive easement on Little Turkey Creek Road. The residents of the Eagles Nest <br />subdivision who possess the easement are the dominant estate owners of the Little <br />Turkey Creek Road easement. Counsel for Objector Kimble testified that the <br />dominant easement was in the records of the El Paso County Assessor's Office at <br />the time that the Application was filed with the Division. <br />Transit Mix Concrete Co. <br />Hitch Rack Ranch Quarry/M-2016.010 4 <br />