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Most of each hay crop is sold to the former lessees. The leases are <br />renewed annually. Due to this situation, there may be little interest <br />in the long-term management and improvement of this property. The <br />loadout facility will not have a lasting effect on the productivity or <br />land-use capability of these areas. <br />There are several homes on the two ranches, well removed from the pro- <br />posed facilities. Not all of these houses are occupied. Deer fre- <br />quent the area year-round, as do elk in colder weather. Hunting is <br />controlled but not prohibited. <br />The old floodplain terraces on the east side of the Roaring Fork River <br />may be underlain by sand and gravel deposits in commercial quantities. <br />Current plans are for no aggregate resource extraction during the life <br />of this project. Sand and gravel is being mined across Highway 82 <br />from the loadout facility. This land use is indicated on land use map <br />D-3-3. Land use at the loadout is regulated by Garfield County, <br />• which maintains a master county land use plan. Use of the land for <br />the loadout facility is regulated under a Special Use Permit review <br />process. <br />Garfield County has existing zoning for the areas adjacent to and <br />around the loadout site. Private lands are zoned A/R/RD <br />Agricultural/Residential/Rural Density. The area named Satank (also <br />known as Sutank) is zoned R/G/D Residential/General/Urban Density, as <br />is downtown Carbondale. A small area near downtown Carbondale is <br />zoned R/G/S Residential/General/Suburban Density, and an industrial <br />area along the D & R, G. W. Railroad tracks in Carbondale is zoned C!G <br />Commercial/General and C/L Commercial Limited. <br />Section 3.09 of the Garfield County zoning resolution, as amended, <br />reads as follows: <br /> <br />3-9 <br />