The purpose of this subchapter is to permit natural resource extractive and related uses such as mines, quarries, gravel pits, rock crushers, concrete batching plants and asphalt plants, and to provide for the orderly removal of mineral resources and the reclamation of the areas from which mineral resources are taken. This subchapter is further intended to protect the environmental, ecological, scenic and visual resources of the city from undue impacts resulting from such uses.
(Prior Code, § 29.28.010) (Ord. 00-03, passed 1-20-2000)