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.. , . •. ~ ' ' '. ~ ~ ~, ._. ~.. .. x. _.. ... _.,t.,. .. ... .4. ..: .~. .. ..4i. ~ .._._~ ~.~...y.....e. ...a?~.. ... O.a .. _.. _. A.rf ~. ... ~_.,_.... .~.. .... . .~ ,~ ~ ~ ~ Yagncur Property - Aspen, Colo. Gravel pcx~nit application • Third ]Trait - September 12, 197a 17embera of the F'itkin County PlanninC and Zoning Comiuission Pitkin County Commissioners FJ.em Construction, Inc. hereby applies to Pitlcin County for a Special Review Permit for a sand and gravel operation to be located on property owned by The Vagneur Ranch Company with an option for purchase held by E7.am Construction, Inc. This property consists of 90+ acres and is situated immediately N,:~l, of the Aspen Racetrack in Woody Creek (see Dchibit A~. The uses anticipated for the operation include gravel; sand and topsoil extraction; asphalt and concrete batch plants; and certain accessary uses such as an office, scales, processing equipment, eta. This application also requests General Submission approval pursuant to . Seotion 4.03, Subdivisions of 35 acres and larger, to allow the sale of 90+ acres of land by The Vaaneur Ranch Company to clam Construction, Inc. ,The boundaries of the land to be sold are coterminous with the land defined by our Special Review Permit application. In addition, we request that the Pitkin County Land IIse .Code be amended to allow concrete and asphalt batch plants as a Special Review IIse in the RS-20 zone. Virtually all the commercially feasible gravel deposits in Pitkin County lie i.n the RS-20 and Ra-30 zones. The Sand and Gravel resulations require batch plants to be located at sand and gravel sites, Therefore, t3ie pre- sent Elam Constructior. operation is a legal non-conforming use since we have an approved Special Review Permit. YJithout the code amendment we cannot apply for either an extension to our present permit in 19f31 or the new permit on +.he Va~neur Site. Our Pitkin County Special Review Permit expires June 14, 19E31. Effectively only two years remain to operate on our present site. It is time~to begin to consider the appropriateness of extending our permit on the present site or relocatin; our operation to a more suitable site. We believe the Vagneur Site is a more appropraite site for our operation than the present site particularly in regards to the ecology of the Roaring Fork River, adjacent land urea, access, and our own operational efficiences, The exiatin; r'1. am site is changin; in ways detrimental to our operation: 1. Only o narrow, level operating area exists along the Roaring Fork . ' River. As the volume of our operation increases we experience greater difficulty in operating efficiently, stockpiling quantity gravel supplies, and protcoting the riparian area of the Roaring Fork. Fbr oxnmplo, thin summer wo have discontinued our sand t i ..