PERMFILE44354

• Permit No: M1986165
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 2/27/1987
• Doc Name: WILLOW BEND SANDPIT APPLICATION
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

R ESOLU'I'1 ON NO. 1987-23
RESOLUTION CONCERNED WITH CONDITIONAL LAND USE AP ROVAL
FOR THE WILLOW IIEND SAND PIT
WHEREAS, SOHN DILLON, dba SANDCO OF DURANGO, leas me
Board of County Commissioner approval for a c}iange in la
mineral extraction operation for removal of sand from a ;
the west bank of t}ie Animas River, known as the Willow
would be located about two (2) miles nort}. of Durango, ab~
of U. S. Hwy. 550 on t}ie west bank of the Animas River in
described on t}ie Applicant's request for land use approval
WHEREAS, Section 3.2.4 of the County's Subdivision I
Plata County Land and Resource Management Program, requ:
'land use, suc}, as proposed by tl~e Applicant, to be proce
One project with Planning Commission review and recommenda
Mined Land Reclamation Act requires tf~at prior to the Min.
Board issuing a permit for t}~e proposed sandpit operation,
tl~e Act, and for w}iicli the Applicant l.as made applicatio
impact operation, t}iat the County, as the local governmen
use jurisdiction over the proposed site, find that the ope,
in violation of t}ie County's zoning or subdivision regulat:
le application for
~d use to permit a
;nd bar located on
Send Pit. The pit
ut 1,300 feet east
an area as legally
and
gulations, the La
es any change in
sed as a Category
on. T}le. Colorado
Land Reclamation
as is required by
for as a limited
entity wit], land
tion would not be
ns; and
WHEREAS, t}ie La Plata County Planning Commission re sewed tiie proposed
change in land use at its Febniary, 1987 meeting brit was u able to agree on a
rACOmmendation and therefore forwarded the application to }~e Board of County
Commissioners without a final recommendation; and
WHEREAS, t}~e Applicant in }ass formal application f r County land use
approval and in leis statements to the Planning Commission and ibis Board of
Commissioners }ias represented that. the actual sand bar a ea to be mined is
approximately 1 to 1.5 acres in size. The area to be min d does not include
t}ie.entire six (6) acres of affected area as stated in t}.e application to t}ie
Mined Land Reclamation Board. T}~e proposed sandpit oper tion would consist
of one medium-sized rubber-tired front-end loader to ex ract and load t}ie
sand and only one medium-sized dump truck would be loaded on t}ie site at any
given time. T}~ere would be no more than five material } auling truck trips
per day from the site. No crushing, processing, or stock sling of materials
is to occur on t}ie site. T}~e total volume of extracted aterial is not to
exceed five thousand (5,000) cubic yards per year. Tl.ere s to be no storage
of equipment or mac}~inery on ikie site, except tkie loader d ring mining opera-
tions. Operations would be confined to periods of low w ter in the Animas
River, during daylig},t ],ours, and in no event earlier than 7:30 a.m. or later
than 6:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. No permanent or t mporary structures
or improvements of any type are to be built or located o the site. Access
to t}ie operation would be limited to a single graveled a cess off of U. 5.
highway 550. There are to be no operations below t}ie water line of tl~e
Animas River or any otl.er type of activity which would r ii re a 404 permit
from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers; and