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October 2000 -5- 003-2191 • secondly for backfilling the excavated azea with construction debris and non-municipal acceptable waste. The net result will be increasing the existing elevations for the land, but the final contours will be compatible with the surrounding land systems. Some of the benefits of the joint use of the land will be as follows: • There is a public need for the recycling and depository activities proposed in this application. The lack of this public service is described in Douglas County documents included as Appendix 13 hereto. • The location of this facility will minimize traffic and road costs incurred over the highway system throughout the county and over state roads. • Present mining activity has the local approval to continue surface disturbance for an indefinite period of time. Based on the last 20 years of clay withdrawal from the site, the mining disturbance could easily exist for 200 more years. • Joint use of the surface and the mineral activity will benefit the community by returning the land to a natural wildlife habitat within the next 30 years. • The mining activity is not reclaiming the land it disturbs, whereas the joint use by the Sedalia Project and the mine will result in the disturbance being controlled, reclaimed, • and revegetated in a planned and orderly manner. • The entire property will be set aside for wildlife habitat and deeded to a conservation group or held for non-urban development. • The proposed Sedalia Project will not require any additional lands being removed from the current special use category. • The resulting reclaimed depository will be more environmentally desirable that the long-term disturbance currently practiced by the clay mining activity. • The private acreage adjacent to the subject property is currently being used as a non- permitted, for-profit repository by the landowner and is now open to the public. This activity does not comply with any of the regulations of the CDPHE for disposal of waste. • The Sedalia project is bordered on the south by the local electric cooperative, on the east by vacant open-space lands, on the north by a private landowner operating anon- permitted construction debris repository, and on the west by several individual landowners. • The adjacent lands surrounding the Sedalia Project aze in the industrial and commercial corridor along Highway 85. • A traffic study has been made by professional consultants to determine the net effect of the traffic on the roads of the county and has concluded that there will be minimal . impact to the existing system. woai9irzi9iswn~.r~niooo aac Sedalia Recycling Center and Depository