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Special Review • • <br />Lyons Stone Quarries <br />Page -2- <br />e. Existing zoning: FA-1 Farming <br />f. Access: County Road 27; minor <br />3. Quarries have operated on this site or in the vicinity sine about 1887. <br />According to available information, this mine is part of the area originally <br />Union Pacific Railroad in 1887. The railroad line constructed to haul s <br />quarries apparently crossed the eastern portion of this site. The quarry <br />abandoned in 1922, and was reopened in 1950. Apparently it has t <br />sporadically since that date. Equipment will include bulldozer, forklifts, st <br />several trucks used to haul the material <br />4. The applicant proposes to continue the open pit mining of f. <br />stone is of high local and national economic importance, and is found <br />limited quantities. It is difficult to establish a timetable for the propose <br />ed by the <br />from the <br />evidently <br />operated <br />fitter, and <br />The <br />in quite <br />use, because <br />of unknown future variables such as market conditions. It would be appropriate, <br />however, for the special review approval to lapse if mining operations are ~bandoned for <br />a protracted period of time. <br />5. Blasting is not proposed to occur on this site. Nonetheless, i would be in <br />the interest of the public health and safety for the applicant to obtain an air emissions <br />permit, unless the County Health Department determines such is not <br />8. Even though this is an existing quarry, the traffic from it does have an <br />impact on the county road system. Individually, this impact is minim 1, but when <br />combined with that from the other quarries in this region, the impact on th condition of <br />the county roads is significant. It is anticipated that this type of im act will be <br />adequately and appropriately addressed in the offsite road development poll y now being <br />developed. Therefore, these owners should be put on notice that they will b required to <br />comply with the terms of this policy as it relates to mining operations, in or er to ensure <br />