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• <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br /> and recommendation, which shall not be binding upon the <br /> Board of commissioners, in particular regarding the <br /> landscape material specified, the planting and maintenance <br /> proposed to insure continuous growth and development, and <br /> the acceptability of the proposals for the handling of <br /> lakes, ponds, etc. <br /> d) The permanent roads, defined as those to be used in <br /> excess of one (1) year, within the excavation site <br /> shall be surfaced with a dust free material such as <br /> • soil cement, bituminous concrete or Portland Cement <br /> concrete from the nearest public road to the yard area. <br /> Also, all permanent roads located within 300 feet of <br /> residentially zoned land shall be ;treated the same. <br /> e) Roads other than permanent roads shall be treated with <br /> dust inhibitors, to be specified in the Operations Plan , <br /> • which will reduce to a minimum the generation of dust . <br /> from the road surfaces as a result of wind or vehicular <br /> action. Properly operated water wagons shall be an acceptable <br /> method of dust inhibition. <br /> f) Where the proposed extraction shall take place within <br /> 300 feet of a dwelling, school,, church, hospital, commercial; <br /> • or industrial building, public building, or public land, <br /> a security fence at least six (6) feet in height shall be <br /> installed. <br /> • • <br /> g) Spoil piles and other accumulations of by-products shall -- <br /> not be created to a height more than forty (40) feet above <br /> the original contour and shall be so graded that the <br /> vertical slope shall not exceed the material's natural <br /> • <br /> angle of repose. <br /> h) The Operations Plan and the Rehabilitation Plan shall be <br /> coordinated so that the amount of disturbed land is kept to ' <br /> the -. ..absolute minimum consonant with good practices : <br /> and so that rehabilitation proceeds in concert with <br /> extraction. <br /> i) No land disturbance shall take place within one hundred (100) <br /> feet of the zoning lot Line or the property line where <br /> the zoning line and the property line are one- and the <br /> same. Within the 100-foot setback area, existing vegetation I <br /> shall be retained for the purpose of providing a visual <br /> screen and noise buffer. No disturbance or removal of <br /> vegetation shall be permitted except for access roads <br /> leading from the excavation area to public roads. Where <br /> vegetation within the 100--foot setback does' not exist, the <br /> applicant shall be required to provide a dense, evergreen <br /> buffer consistent with the purpose cited above . The buffer <br /> . shall be in place prior to the initiation of any excavation <br /> activities . <br />