Agenda - 12-15-2009 - Information Item 1

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Z,-~-~or(Y1G~"i~n ~~'E'-tYl ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING & INSPECTIONS DEPARTMENT Craig N. Benedict, AICP, Director ~auntP o! ®~ Current Planning ,~~` * ~ °P 306E Revere Road (919) 245-2575 ~T ~ P O Box 8181 (919) 644-3002 (FAx) ~, Hillsborough, www.co.orange.nc.us '~°!!h ~a~~~~°° North Carolina, 27278 ,'- MEMOF~ANDUM TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners Frank Clifton, County Manager Craig Benedict, Planning Director FROM: Michael D. Harvey AICP, CZO -Planner III DATE: December 15, 2009 RE: REVIEW of development issues associated with Hanson Aggregate Quarry operation along Highway 57 within the Little River Township Please accept this memorandum as a review of the permit history, and zoning issues, and staff's recent efforts to restrict the location of a asphalt plant at the Hanson Aggregate granite rock quarry operation east of NC Highway 57 within the Little River Township. The quarry is located within both Orange and Durham counties, with the majority of the actual quarry operations being conducted within Durham County. The Orange County portion of the quarry contains some two hundred fifty-eight (258) acres of leased lands and lands owned in fee simple. At present sixteen (16) acres of this area is actively quarried and another sixty-four (64) acres are bonded for future quarry pit expansion. The ultimate quarry pit area, according to the permit on file with NC DENR, is eighty (80) acres in Orange County. This memorandum was originally submitted in March and November of 2007, but is presented here with additional information to address questions from the County Commissioners. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: As of November 30, 2009, planning staff has been informed by representatives of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Division of Air Quality (NCDENR) that they have rescinded Air Quality Permit #07023R07 allowing for the development of an asphalt hatching plant at the Hanson Aggregates Southeast, Inc. quarry. While this rescission