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considered accessory to the mining activity"). Thus, in reviewing for <br /> competent record evidence, we consider only Land Use Code section <br /> 4.3.10's definition of an "accessory use": a use that is "clearly <br /> secondary and incidental to the principal use of the property."? <br /> Though Ready-Mix's original plan contemplated operating the <br /> batch plant in perpetuity, the approved version of the plan limits its <br /> period of operation to the life of the mine. Indeed, Ready-Mix <br /> repeatedly assured the Board that "the batch plant will not operate <br /> after mining operations have ceased." And the only stated purpose <br /> of the batch plant for that time period is to use the materials <br /> 7 In a departure from the Board and Ready-Mix, Colorado Stone, <br /> Sand & Gravel Association (CSSGA) argues in its amicus brief that <br /> Larimer County Land Use Code section 4.3.10 (2018) is wholly <br /> inapplicable. Instead, it contends, the Board was only required to <br /> consider Land Use Code section 4.3.7(E). CSSGA cites section <br /> 3.3(B) of the Land Use Code, which instructs that "[t]he particular <br /> controls the general" when interpreting the code. In light of that <br /> directive, CSSGA reasons, "[section] 4.3.7(E)(1)'s specific provision <br /> that `on-site processing of mined material is considered an <br /> accessory use to the mining activity' trumps [section] 4.3.10's <br /> general description of the purpose and location of `accessory uses."' <br /> But the two provisions are not inconsistent. Section 4.3.10 broadly <br /> defines "accessory use," and section 4.3.7(E)(1) merely clarifies that, <br /> in the context of mining activities, "[o]n-site processing of mined <br /> materials" is per se an "accessory use." Because there is no issue <br /> as to which provision is controlling, section 3.3(B) is not implicated. <br /> Thus, we assume, as do the defendants, that section 4.3.10 applies. <br /> 44 <br />