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rnrec[or of wtanon RECEI~EN~ August 22, 2005 State of Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, CO 80202 ~rv-w~ ', ~~I - ~ o mss'-~yS ~AUG 2 5 2005 division of Minerals and Geology RE: Application for Construction Materials Operation Reclamation Permit by Gravel, LLC, Durango, Colorado. To Whom It May Concern: We have been advised that the firm, Gravel, LLC of 47 Pinnacle View Drive, Durango, CO 81301, has filed an application for a regulaz (112) Construction Materials Operation Reclamation Permit with the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Act for the Extraction of Construction Materials. We oppose the reclamation permit application as it is currently written. We also wish to point out that the City of Durango/La Plata County, the owners of the Durango-La Plata County Airport, as adjacent landowners, were never notified of this permit application. Our opposition is confined to Page 9B of Exhibit E, Piedras De La Florida Conceptual Development Plan which indicates that following gavel mining operations, 76 residential units will be planned for the pennit azea. The Durango-La Plata County Airport is strongly opposed to any residential development of this density. This azea falls within the Traffic Pattern Zone of the proposed Airport Compatible Land Use Plan and proposed residential density within this zone is limited to no more than one dwelling unit per twenty acres. This significant residential encroachment onto land adjacent to a busy, commercial service airport is not in the public interest. This area is subject to noise impacts from aircraft in the downwind traffic pattern segment for landing on Runway 2. The Airport has no objection to the Gravel Mining operations, per se, as long as any reclamation permit does not include high density residential development. h~o "The only way to Fly to the Four Corners"