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STAFF REPORT <br /> Item: Extractive Use Overlay District <br /> Background: The City has a moratorium on extractives uses that expires at the beginning of <br /> 2007. As staff,we have received numerous comments and direction from Commission members <br /> on how they desire that we proceed. Some members would like us to compose or edit new <br /> ordinance language and establish a complex system of regulation and administration of <br /> extractive uses. Other members would like us to ban, either overtly or de-facto through strict <br /> regulation,all extractive uses. Other members have indicated preferences in between these. <br /> As Staff, it is impossible to create an approach that meets all of these objectives, sine the <br /> objectives themselves are not in agreement. Before we spend a great deal more time,effort and <br /> budget writing ordinances and doing research, there seems to be some fundamental decisions <br /> made. <br /> Aggregate uses provide a benefit to the community,primarily in access to construction materials <br /> at a lower price than would otherwise be available. Aggregate operations can have strong <br /> negative impacts in dust, fumes, noise and odor as well as increased traffic. If everyone can <br /> agree on these points,then some basic questions can be asked and answered. <br /> 1. Do members see a need or have a desire to accept a new tempQrary extractive use <br /> which involves just extraction somewhere in the City? <br /> 2. Do members see a need or have a desire to accept a new tem orary extractive use <br /> which involves some type of processing or crushing somewhere in the City? <br /> 3. Do members see a need or have a desire to accept a new permanent extractive use <br /> which involves just extraction somewhere in the City? <br /> `1 4. Do members see a need or have a desire to accept a new permanent extractive use <br /> which involves some type of processing or crushing somewhere in the City? <br /> 5. Are members open to providing for expansion of the existing extractive use sites <br /> to take in adjacent properties for extraction? <br /> 6. Are members open to providing for expansion of the existing extractive use sites <br /> to take in adjacent properties for extraction and permanent processing <br /> operations? <br /> If the Commission can answer these questions,the Staff can easily prepare ordinance language <br /> and maps that would spell out the parameters of what,how much,how long and where. <br /> City of Pequot Lakes Staff Report 8-1 <br /> September 21,2oo6 <br />