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ITEM '~. 1. <br /> <br />ty of <br /> <br />iver <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />Stephen Rohlf, Building and <br />Zoning Administrator <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />April 21, 1997 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Amendment To Shiely Company <br />Mineral Excavation Permit <br />CU 95-04 <br /> <br />Shiely Company's request is fairly simple. The current hours they are <br />allowed to wash gravel are from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. They are asking for <br />these hours to be increased to 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. <br /> <br />Attached is a vicinity map showing the location of the pit where their wash <br />operation is located. Also attached is a revised conditional use permit. <br /> <br />The only section of Shiely's existing conditional use permit that needs to be <br />amended to allow the increased hours is paragraph 12 on page 5, titled <br />"Hours of Operation". Subpart (b) of the referenced paragraph reflects this <br />change. <br /> <br />Staff foresees two potential issues with Shiely's requested additional hours <br />for their wash operation. The first is noise. The wash operation is not <br />typically a noise problem. However, back-up alarms on vehicles can be. <br /> <br />Paragraph 13 on page 5 of Shiely's conditional use permit allows staff the <br />ability to require modifications to Shiely's operation to deal with noise, if it <br />becomes an issue. For example, requiring Shiely to use strobe lights or <br />cameras instead of back-up alarms during the extended hours. The Planning <br />Commission modified this section slightly to deal with noise during the <br />additional hours requested. <br /> <br />The second potential issue, which staff considers more serious, is in regards <br />to the effects that appropriating large amounts of water for the wash <br />operation will have on adjacent wells. During the drought of the late 1980s <br />there were stressed wells in the general vicinity of this pit. <br /> <br />The city conducted a thorough pump test to study this very issue for a recent <br />Environmental Impact Statement on mineral excavation. The resulting <br />information lead to the conditions found in paragraph 18, page 6, of Shiely's <br />attached conditional use permit. <br /> <br /> X\elkriver\syskshrdocXb&zXsteverXshielym.doc <br /> <br />13065 Orono Parkway · P.O. Box 490 · Elk River, MN 55330 · (612) 441-7420 · Fax: (612) 441-7425 <br /> <br /> <br />