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Item <br /> <br />6.2. <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br /> <br />Stephen Rohlf, Building and Zoning Administrator <br />September 17, 2001 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Conditional Use Permit Amendment for Mineral Excavation by <br />Tiller Corporation CU 01-33/P.H. <br /> <br />Background <br />Tiller Corporation in cooperation with Sherburne County and the City of Elk River has been <br />working on a realignment of County Roads #33 and #77. The realignment and lowering of <br />these roads accommodates long term transportation needs of the city and county and the <br />development of surrounding properties. Both the city's and the county's transportation <br />plans as well as the city's Environmental Impact Statement on Mineral Excavation identifies <br />the need for new alignments of these roads. A map roughly showing the proposed <br />realignments is attached (Map 1), A leg of the new intersection of County Roads #33 and <br />#77 that headed southwest toward Woodland Trails Park was recently removed from the <br />city's transportation plan, but the rest of this realignment is still valid. The city and county <br />are trying to coordinate the timing of the realignment with the Minnesota Department of <br />Transportation's project to construct an interchange at the intersection of Highway 169 and <br />County Road #33. <br /> <br />In 1992, Tiller gained approval of a conditional use permit (CU 92-01) from the city to mine <br />the seventy-eight acre site also shown on Map 1. As part of their application, Tiller <br />submitted the attached reclamation plan labeled Map 2. Since that time, Aggregate <br />Industries has received a permit to mine the property directly to the west of Tiller's site and, <br />as previously mentioned, the city and the county have made plans for lowering County Road <br />#77. <br /> <br />Request <br />Tiller is requesting a modification to their reclamation plan for CU 92-01. Map 3 shows the <br />new contours proposed by Tiller. To accommodate the new road alignment, Tiller is <br />pr.op, osing to mine the common boundary between their pit and Aggregate Industries' <br />m~mng operation to the west. They also plan on removing the material under the existing <br /> <br /> <br />