This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To provide for the economic availability and removal of sand, gravel, rock, hard rock, soil and other materials vital to the continued growth of the city and the surrounding area;
(B) To protect sensitive areas - Drinking Water Supply Management Areas (DWSMA), and ten-year time of travel area as approved by MDH, and other special protection areas or zones that may be delineated by federal or state mandates;
(C) To establish regulations, safeguards and controls within the corporate limits of the city regarding noise, dust, traffic, drainage, groundwater quality and other factors which will minimize the environmental and aesthetic impacts on mined or adjacent property;
(D) To reduce the potential for pollution caused by wind, soil erosion and sedimentation; and
(E) To establish locations, orderly approval process and operating conditions under which mining operations will be allowed in the corporate limits of the city, and to establish conditions which ensure the restoration of mined areas consistent with the existing and planned land use patterns.
(Ord. 102, passed 10-24-2007)