This chapter is a zoning and public nuisance ordinance enacted to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of present and future residents of the city while at the same time providing for the responsible and economically viable extraction of oil and gas minerals. This chapter is a police power, public nuisance and land use regulation designed to establish separate land use, environmental, traffic, cultural, historical and archaeological, emergency service and preparedness, health and safety, and other standards to protect from any possible adverse public nuisance effects and impacts resulting from oil and gas exploration, drilling, extraction or transportation in the city.
The purpose of this chapter is to provide, through zoning provisions, for the reasonable development of land for oil and gas operation while providing adequate health, safety and general welfare protections of the residents of the city of Payette. Oil and gas exploration, drilling and extraction operations involve activities that are economically important and will impact the city of Payette. Accordingly, it is necessary and appropriate to adopt reasonable requirements for oil and gas resource development so that these resources can be obtained in a manner that is economically remunerative, and that minimizes the potential impact on the residents of the city of Payette.
Local governments are preempted from regulating the same features of oil and gas well operations or accomplishing the same purposes regulated under Idaho statute 47-317. Local zoning regulates surface land use as authorized under the local land use planning act 1 . (Ord. 1384, 2014)
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| 1 | 1. IC 67-65. |