COUNTY OF LAKE - File #: 22-710

• File #: 22-710
• Version: 1
• Type: Action Item
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 6/28/2022
• In control: Planning Commission
• On agenda: 7/14/2022
• Title: 9:40 a.m. Public Hearing on Consideration of a twenty-year extension for a mine (file no. UPX 19-04 affecting use permit UPM 10-01) and consider Categorical Exemption (CE 19-98), per CEQA section 15301. The applicant, CLEARLAKE REDI-MIX is requesting continued use of the site as a gravel quarry. The project is located at 12572 White Rock Canyon Road; Upper Lake, CA, and is APN: 022-009-06.
• Sponsors: Community Development

Memorandum


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Item #8
9:40 a.m.
July 14, 2022
STAFF REPORT
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Mary Darby, Community Development Director
Prepared By: Eric Porter and Peggy Barthel
DATE: July 14, 2022
SUBJECT: Request for Extension of Time, UPX 19-04 for Use Permit to Mine UPM 10-01 and Categorical Exemption, CE 19-98
SUPERVISOR DISTRICT 3
ATTACHMENTS: 1. Vicinity Map
2. Existing Conditions for Use Permit UPM10-01
3. Proposed Conditions for Use Permit Extension UPX19-04 to Use Permit to Mine UPM10-01
4. Site Plan
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Clearlake Redi-Mix is requesting Extension of Use Permit to Mine, UPM10-01. There will be no changes in the operation and/or expansion of the authorized use. The applicant shall continue to be in compliance with all previously-approved Conditions of Approval for Use Permit to Mine UPM10-01 (Attachment 2) and the proposed Conditions of Approval for Use Permit Extension UPX19-04 (Attachment 3). County Staff recommends approval of the Use Permit Time Extension Request for a period of twenty years.
Background and Previous Actions:
Approved by the Planning Commission on August 24, 2000, Use Permit UP 98-05 permitted terrace mining of approximately 140,000 cubic yards of aggregate at 12572 White Rock Canyon Road, Upper Lake. Subsequent extension of the excavation was permitted upon approval by the Planning Commission of the Use Permit to mine UPM10-01 on September 23, 2010. UPM10-01 stated the expiration of the permit would be August 24, 2020.
Prior to the expiration of the use permit, the applicant applied for an extension on December 31, 2019. The submittal of the extension enabled the facility to continue to produce until this extension was heard and decided on by the Planning Commission.
The California Department of Conservation, Division of Mining (DMR) provides additional oversight of the project under the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA). Prior to initial project approval, DMR (form...