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EXCERPT OF PUEBLO COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES <br />FOR SPECIAL USE PERMIT NO. 2011 -009 <br />FROM THE NOVEMBER 15, 2011 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS <br />SPECIAL USE PERMIT NO. 2011 -009 - <br />Kim W. and Kimberly J. Barickman (Owners) <br />Colorado Moss Rock (Operator /Applicant) <br />LJ Development, Inc., do Joe P. Gagliano <br />(Representative) <br />8500 Park Road, Rye <br />The applicants are requesting a special use permit for natural deposits extraction and <br />processing (surface clearing -rock picking); and stockpiling in a designated storage area on a <br />61.2± acre area in the A -3, Agricultural (minimum 1 acre) Zone District. The application <br />includes a proposal to reclaim the mined area to residential/agricultural. The mine area is within <br />a 217.26± acre parcel located within the E'/ of Section 35, Township 24 South, Range 68 West <br />of the Sixth Principal Meridian. The property is physically addressed as 8500 Park Road and <br />located at the west end of Park Road, approximately 960 feet southwest of the intersection of <br />Park Road and Preseren Road in the Rye area. The proposed mine is to be named Colorado <br />Moss Rock. <br />Special Use Permit No. 2011 -009 was continued from the October 25, 2011 Planning <br />Commission meeting. <br />Mr. Raso asked that the staff review, dated November 1, 2011, prepared by Dominga Jimenez - <br />Garcia, be entered into the record. <br />Mr. Joe Gagliano, LJ Development, Inc., 256 North Merrill Drive, Pueblo West, represented the <br />special use permit. He distributed copies of the Legislative Declaration in Section 34- 32.5 -102 <br />of The Colorado Land Reclamation Act for the Extraction of Construction Materials, and entered <br />it into the record as Petitioner's Exhibit "A ". He stated in the late 1970s, the State of Colorado <br />realized mining activity for construction materials in all mining operations wasn't being reclaimed <br />properly so they passed some laws and this happened to be one of them. It concerns <br />construction aggregates, which are separate from hard rock like gold, silver, uranium, and coal, <br />and are the less valuable products. It's declared and a policy of the State that the extraction of <br />construction materials and the reclamation of land affected by such extraction are both <br />necessary and proper activities. It's further declared that both activities should be and are <br />compatible. It's the intent of the General Assembly, by the enactment of the article, to foster <br />and encourage the development of an economically sound and stable mining and construction <br />materials industry and to encourage the orderly development of the State's natural resources, <br />while requiring those people involved in mining operations to reclaim land affected by such <br />operations and put it back to a use beneficial to the people of the State. It's the further intent of <br />the General Assembly, by the enactment of the article, to conserve natural resources, to aid in <br />the protection of wildlife and aquatic resources, to establish agricultural, recreational, residential, <br />and industrial sites, and to protect and promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the <br />people of the State. Mr. Gagliano stated it's literally a rock picking operation, noting there's no <br />major excavation and they're basically collecting rocks from the surface. The people in Vermont <br />and New England pick the rocks off the fields so they can plant crops, noting they're basically <br />clearing the fields of boulders. The problem is what to do with them, noting they have to get rid <br />of them and can't just move them from one place to another. It's a boulder field, noting they're <br />right next to each other and are literally on the ground. <br />SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPEAL NO. 2011 -002 <br />STAFF REVIEW 11 -30 -2011 <br />-DRAFT MINUTES- <br />1 <br />PCPC <br />EXHIBIT NO. <br />3 <br />11 -15 -2011 <br />