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Referral — September 8, 2008
KE
PROJECT INFORMATION AND STAFF COMMENTS
TYPE OF REVIEW:
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
APPLICANT/PROPERTY OWNER:
LOCATION:
SITE INFORMATION:
ACCESS:
EXISTING ZONING:
ADJACENT ZONING/USES:
Referral of Special Use Permit
("SUP")
The Applicant requests a SUP for
"Extraction, Storage and Material
Handling of a Natural Resource"
in the ARRD zone district
Robert and Kathleen Kuersten
East I/2 of the SE 1/4 Section 32,
Township 5 South, Range 90
West of the 6th P.M. and
generally described as located
400' east of the Super Bowl
(bowling alley in New Castle) on
the north side of CR 240.
22.455 acres
County Road 240
Agricultural Residential Rural
Density
Town of New Castle to the north
and west — Lakota Canyon Ranch,
Shibui West Condominiums, and
commercial development. South
and east is unincorporated
agricultural parcels zoned A/R/RD
I. BACKGROUND
The Building and Planning Department received a Special Use Permit (SUP)
application for "Extraction, Storage and Material Handling of Natural Resources"
for a 22.455 acre parcel just east of the Town of New Castle, located on the
north side of CR 240 (Bruce Road). A period of one year is anticipated to be
necessary to complete the removal and reclamation of this site.
Kuersten SUP
Referral — September 8, 2008
KE
The activity is estimated to excavate
138,000 cubic yards of material, pit
run and soil overburden, with
approximately 4,600 cubic yards to be
used on-site for reclamation. An
application has been included in the
submittal for a 110 permit which is
required by the State of Colorado
Division of Reclamation and Mine
Safety (DRMS) which issues permits
related to mining activity. The mining
area is estimated at 7 acres.
The application provides a list of equipment to be used in the extraction activities
which include an excavator, dozer, loader, grader, skid -steer loader and
approximately 20 end dump and tandum dump trucks. A water truck will also be
accessing the site for dust suppression purposes. Approximately 133,400 cubic
yards of excavated material will be transported to off site locations unspecified in
the application.
The traffic study included in the application estimates 621 trips per day, further
broken down in the following manner:
Traffic on County Road 240 associated with the site excavation and grading includes truck trips hauling
material offsite, employee trips to and from the site, and supprni vehicles (maintenance truck & lube truck).
Thc proposed traffic counts are summarized below.
Material will be hauled offsite with a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 20 tttrcks. For the proposed
traffic, we made calculations based on 20 trucks and have assumed that each truck will take 45 minutes
(0.75 hours) to load, leave to unload, and return to the site. In a ten hour day, each truck will generate 26-
2/3 [2x(10/0.75)I truck trips. For the site, there will he a total of 533 truck trips for haul off of material
each day.
In addition the contractor will haul ten loads of water from the Colorado River per day, which equates to an
addition 20 trips per day. A maintenance truck and a tube truck will visit the site once each day which will
generate an additional 4 truck trips per day.
A maximum of 26 workers will enter and leave the site each day, with 6 onsite workers, and 20 truck
drivers. We have assumed that the onsite workers will average 4 vehicle trips per day, and the truck drivers
will make 2 vehicle trips p
Vehicle type
Number
# of Trips
Total Trips
Trucks
20
26 2/3
533
Water truck
1
20
20
Workers
20
2
40
6
4
24
Support
2
2
4
Total =
621
Kuersten SUP
Referral — September 8, 2008
KE
The subject site is adjacent to the Town of New Castle with residential uses to
the north and west, as well as commercial uses to the southwest along the
interchange. The following map identifies the town area with the adjacent
subdivisions.
44(zAs
akota myon Ranc
Shibui vVe_+
Condos
Castle Ridge
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Kuersten Property outlined in blue with adjacent parcels and I-70 interchange shown
REFERRAL AUTHORITY
Section 9.03.04 of the Zoning Resolution of 1978, as amended requires that
Special Use Permit applications be initially brought to the Board so that the Board
may determine if a recommendation from the Planning Commission is necessary.
II. STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff finds that due to 1) the nature of potential impacts to surrounding
properties and 2) the traffic generated by this proposal, Staff recommends the
Board refer the application for Planning Commission hearing.