The application for the permit shall be made in writing to the city on form the city may from time to time designate, and shall include information as may be required by the city and shall contain among other things:
(A) The correct legal description of the premises;
(B) The name and address of the applicant and owner of the land;
(C) The estimated time required to complete extraction activities of entire site, the amount of material to be moved on the site and the amount to be removed from the site;
(D) The highways, streets or other public roadways within the city upon or along which the material shall be transported;
(E) Method and schedule for restoration, which shall be consistent with the conditional use permit end use plan, and measures to control erosion during and after the work;
(F) A map or plat of any proposed pit or excavation to be made showing the stages or limits thereof together with the existing or proposed finished elevations based on sea level readings; and
(G) For sand and gravel excavation annual excavation permits, the following additional information shall be submitted:
(1) The landscape plan shall provide visual screening from adjacent property through the use of berms, foliage or fencing as required in the conditional use permit for the project. The plan shall include all excavation areas of the proposed permit which are within the required setback areas;
(2) Location and surface of access roads;
(3) Method of controlling dust;
(4) Method of controlling access to open excavation;
(5) Method of maintaining security on premises; and
(6) A restoration grading plan shall be submitted by the operator and approved by the city. The plan shall only be approved if the city finds that the plan is designed so that it is compatible with the end use development plan anticipated in the project conditional use permit. The plans shall include:
(a) Site analysis such as, but not limited to, trees, depth of topsoil, adjacent and on-site buildings and land uses, flood levels, elevation, public utilities such as overhead or buried power lines or pipelines or city utilities, and percent of slope within and 100 feet beyond the perimeter of the site and other existing information necessary to analyze the site;
(b) An analysis of deposit information and cross sections indicating the depth and quantities of existing sand and gravel deposits;
(c) A plan indicating the operating pattern and staging or time sequence schedule for excavation and restoration of the site which may be revised from time to time based on current economic conditions;
(d) Geological and hydrological data as is necessary to determine the feasibility of the proposed grading plan; and
(e) The contours at no greater than four-foot intervals of the land when the mining operations are completed. Contours and grades shall conform to the standards of § 155.309.
(‘81 Code, § 6-22) (Ord. 84, passed 9-23-70; Am. Ord. 294, passed 4-28-83; Am. Ord. 476, passed 3-8-90; Am. Ord. 633, passed 10-9-97)
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