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Item 6.2. <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Date: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />Stephen RohlL Building and Environmental Administrator <br /> <br />October 20, 2003 ~//- <br /> <br />Conditional Use Permit for Mineral Excavation by Aggregate <br />Industries/P.H. CU 03-29 <br /> <br />Request: Aggregate Industries is requesting to expand an existing fifty (50) acre gravel mine <br />to include an additional eighty (80) acres. Mining the property in question has been <br />anticipated for a long time and was included in the City of Elk River's 1994 Environmental <br />Impact Statement (EIS) on Mineral Excavation and is already zoned Mineral Excavadon <br />Overlay Zoning District. <br /> <br />Attachments: Included with this memo is: a vicinity map showing the property included in <br />the proposed expansion of the mine, Aggregate Industries' application to amend their <br />conditional use permit (dated August 2003), and a revised conditional use permit reflec.tmg <br />the Planning Commissions recommendation on this request. Aggregate Industries' <br />application contains a reclamation plan showing the proposed final contours. <br /> <br />Background: Aggregate Industries started mining the existing fifty (50) acre pit in this area <br />in 2001. They plan to mine the new eighty (80) acres from north to south. The txvo existing <br />dwellings on the site, which the operator owns, will be removed. The eight3, (80) acres in <br />question do not contain any wetlands and, except for adjacent to houses on the site, there <br />aren't any trees on the property. The fzrst two seasons of mining the fifty (50) acres site <br />were without incident. However, noise from that pit has become an issue this year. <br /> <br />Issues: <br /> <br />Condition number 9 in the attached CUP, titled Reclamation: <br />As part of the City of Elk River's EIS on Mineral Excavation, a contour map of the Mining <br />District xvas developed. The city did this to make sense of elevation between the various pit, <br />drainage patterns and future road elevations. The proposed final contour map, contained in <br />the attached application, shows the pit floor at 1,000 feet above mean sea level. The city's <br /> <br /> <br />