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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2.0 Resolution 81-75STATE OF COLORADO ss. County of Garfield regular At a -neet'n of the Board of County Commissioners for taazClel d County, Colorado, held at the Court House in Glenwood Spring6 n Monc y the G ii rCC11 day of March A. D. 19 1 , there were present: Larry Velasquez Flaven J. Cerise Eugene "Jim" Drinkhouse Arthur A. Abplanalp, Jr. Cheryl J. Koss when the following proceedings, among others were had and done, to -wit: , Commissioner Chairman , Commissioner , Commissioner , County Attorney Clerk of the Board RESOLUTION NO. 81-75 A RESOLUTION CONCERNED WITH THE CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OF A CONDI- TIONAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION BY COLONY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FOR INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS LIMITED TO A PLANT FOR THE PROCESSING, UPGRADING AND RETORTING OF OIL SHALE. WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Garfield County has received an application from Colony Development Corporation for a conditional use permit for industrial operations limited to a plant for the processing, upgrading and retorting of oil shale on the following described tract of land: In Township 5 South, Range 96 West of the 6th P.M., NW/4 of Section 13 WHEREAS, the Board has considered the recommendation of the Garfield County Planning Director that a public hearing is not necessary upon the question of whether the above described conditional use permit should be granted or denied; and WHEREAS, the Board, on the basis of the said recommendation, has made the following determinations of fact: 1. The application of extension of the existing permits for industrial operations to the requested conduct was filed at a time when the proposed uses were "conditional uses", and there- fore the subject uses should be considered through the conditional use process. 2. The proposed use is compatible with the uses existing and permitted in the district in which it is to be located, provided that certain hereinafter contained conditions be complied with. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Commissioners of Garfield County, Colorado, that a conditional use permit be and hereby is authorized permitting the use of the above described tract of land for industrial operations limited to a plant for the processing, upgrading and retorting of oil shale, upon the following specific conditions: 1. That the use of the tract of land comply with all present and future regulations of Garfield County relating to the authorized use in the zone district in which the property is now or may later be located. 2. The permit will be subject to review every six months. 3. A report will be given to the County every three months unless a 10% variance occurs of projections for increase in work force and existing work force. This should include place of resi- dence, type of !lousing (mobile lIcI i :, apartment, etc., awned nr rented), number of school children, etc. 4. Colony will demonstrate to the County the availability of housing for at least. 80% of their work force at the time of demand. 5. Colony will provide transportation in the form of van - pooling, busing or similar forms from Parachute to the plant site as soon as there are 200 employees. 6. If the rights of owners of separate interests iii the property are determined by final judicial decision to prevent per- mitted activities on subject acreage, then the permit will be ineffective as to those lands. 7. Colony shall substantially comply with conditions imposed by permits issued by other government agencies. Compliance shall be determined solely by any issuing government agency, and the County shall not consider the question of non-compliance under this condition until a violation is determined to have occurred by such agency. Colony shall advise the County of any determination of violation within ten (10) days of the time it is advised of any such violation. Such determination of violation may be considered by the Board at any time, and action may be taken at such time in the manner of a period review under the provisions of the Garfield County Zoning Resolution, as then in effect. In the event the Board determines that any such violation adversely affects the health, safety or welfare of the population of Garfield County or other uses within the zone district, the Board may require that the permitted operation be brought into compliance within a specified period, and the permit may be suspended or revoked if the operation is not brought into compliance within the period allowed. ATTEST: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO 0 U Chairman;� Upon motion duly made and seconded the foregoing Resolution was adopted by the following vote: T.a r�j7 Velasquez Aye Flauen...,I._....Cerise. Aye Eugene "aim" Drin)S,hoi se Aye STATE OF COLORADO County of Garfield Commissioners 1, , County Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the annexed and f.. cyoing 01.1er is truly copied from the Records of the Proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners for said Garfield County, r.ow in my office. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, at Glenwood Springs, this day of , A. D. 19 County Cicrk and ex -officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners.