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<br />Issues the Division Believes Are Not Within the Jurisdiction of the Board <br />Safety hazard of being a collector highway (U.S. Highway 50); trucks on County Road 157 and <br />the highway <br />2. Changes the basic character and use of land at Parkdale <br />3. County Planning and Zoning Board, by approving the operation, failed to protect the utility and <br />value and future of the land at Pazkdale <br />4. Adverse impacts on air quality <br />5. The maps are misleading in the designation of nearby buildings as ranch houses, when they are <br />really buildings associated with the D & RG and of some historic significance. <br />6. The location is incompatible to non-motorized traffic on the river and would cause year-round <br />serious traffic congestion on the highway. <br />The mining operation would cost Fremont County more to monitor various needs than it could <br />ever bring benefit. <br />8. Aggregate mine's non-compliance with the Fremont County's master plan for preserving scenic <br />Highway 50 -Arkansas River Corridor. <br />9. Possible affects of the proposed project on recreation and tourism industries are not addressed. <br />10. The proposed project should give some consideration to the effects of the mine on visual <br />resources. <br />11. Blasting, crushing, screening and loading will create a sever noise problem affecting the <br />experience of area visitors. <br />12. It is premature to place complete reliance on the transportation of the product almost entirely <br />upon a potentially unavailable rail service. <br />13. The hours of operation. <br />14. Washing down the dust from the gravel pit operation with 30,000 gallons per day of water is <br />not a good use of a limited resource. <br />15. Objection to the location of the proposed mining operation. <br />l6. Over 70 commercial outfitters are dependent on the Parkdale site, trading a clean industry for a <br />dirty one which will only profit a few. We ought not to let this happen. <br />17. Economic and quality of life concerns. <br />Issues the Division Believes Are Within the Jurisdiction of the Board <br />