Sec. 59-C-12.2. Where applicable.

The mineral resource recovery zone is applicable only where indicated as appropriate on an approved and adopted master plan and where geologic evidence demonstrates that an economically important and commercially valuable mineral deposit exists within the regional district and where such deposit can be extracted and processed within the limitations imposed by this zone. The zone is applicable only to crushed stone, building stone, and sand and gravel deposits. Consequently the standards and requirements set in the mineral resource recovery zone are not intended to regulate or permit the development of metallic minerals, fossil fuels or other minerals not specifically identified above.

Further, the restrictions of this zone do not apply to excavation or site grading for construction projects, or to temporary excavations for borrow, fill, trenching or dredging, and exploration.

(Legislative History: Ord. No. 9-29, § 1.)

   Editor's note-Section 59-C-12.2 is cited in Boyds Civic Ass'n. v. Montgomery County, 309 Md. 683, 526 A.2d 598 (1987).