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Rug 24 O5 11:17a DURRfVGO t_RPLRTR RIRPORT 970-247-8145 p.2 <br />1000 AIRPORT ROAD, BOX <br />D URANGO, CO 81303 <br />Phone: 970-382-6069 <br />FAX: 970-247-8145 <br />DENTRB@ci. durango. c•o, us <br />Ron Den[, AAE <br />Director of A~~iation <br />August 22, ZOOS <br />State of Colorado <br />Division of Minerals and Geology <br />1313 Sherman Street; Room 21 S <br />Denver, CO 80202 <br />RE: Application for Construction Materials Operation Reclamation Permit by Gravel, LLC, <br />Durango, Colorado. <br />To Whom It May Concern: <br />We have been advised that the firm, Gravel, LLC of 47 Pinnacle View Drive, Durango, CO <br />81301, has filed an application for a regular (112) Construction Materials Operation Reclamation <br />Permit with the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Act for the Extraction of Construction <br />Materials. We oppose the reclamation permit application as it is currently written. We also wish <br />to point out that the City ofDurango/La Plata County, the owners of the Durango-La Plata <br />County Airport, as adjacent landowners, were never notified of this permit application. <br />Our opposition is confined to Page 9B of Exhibit E, Piedras De La Florida Conceptual <br />Development Plan which indicates that following gravel mining operations, 76 residential units <br />will be planned for the permit area. The Durango-La Plata County Airport is strongly opposed <br />to any residential development of this density. This azea falls within the Traffic Pattern Zone of <br />the proposed Airport Compatible Land Use Plan and proposed residential density within this <br />zone is limited to no more than one dwelling unit per twenty acres. This significant residential <br />encroachment onto ]and adjacent to a busy, commercial service airport is not in the public <br />interest. This area is subject to noise impacts from aircraft in the downwind traffic pattern <br />segment for landing on Runway 2. <br />The Airport has no objection to the Gravel Mining operations, per se, as long as any reclamation <br />permit does not include high density residential development. <br />"The only wny to Fiy to the Four Corners" <br />