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<br /> Adjacent. lard uses currently are fairly uniform, but great <br />• changes on the east side are anticipated in the near future. Currently <br /> the south, west and north sides of the operation are wildlands generally <br />o~•m ed and controller? by the United States Forest Service. To the east <br />is a valley bottom that is a combination of grazing land and caildlands. <br />It is this land where the large changes will undoubtedly occur. <br />Development, both residential and industrial, is moving in <br />this directior. and it can quite reasonably he assumed these lands will <br />rather quickly change from an agricultural and wildlife use to an <br />industrial and/or residential use within the next decade. <br />Because of this probable change Castle Concrete Com.pany`s <br />Pikeview Oiiarry will be placed on the boundary between human dominated <br />uses and wildland uses. The lower part of the quarry, generally where <br />• the processing plant currently is located, would be ideal for an <br />industrial use. This could be surro~.inded by a dense buffer that svoulcl <br />then blend into the wildlife areas of the main quarry area which in <br />turn would blend into the forests of the mountains behind the quarry. <br />Althotiah the visibility of this quarry is not as great as the <br />(?ueen's Canyon r?uarry, from areas north of Colorado Springs this quarry <br />is very visible. P.estiietics concerr. is not as great, but is still <br />rather distracting from some areas where Pikes Peak forms a main <br />landscape feature. Much of the time, the quarry is only evident in a <br />major sense during the summer mcrnings when the white color clasiZes <br />~.!ith the dark greens of the forests. As soon as afternoon s!1ac:ows <br />shade the area the quarry often blends with tY:e surrounding hills due <br />to t!ie blue, hazy air of the summer afternoons. In the painter the <br />• snow-cevere!~ quarr;~ is much less visible than it is in tPe summer, <br />P-E-2 <br />