§ 22.14.050. Extractive Resource Area (EX1).

A.

Purpose and applicability. The Extractive Resource Area (EX1) combining designation is used to identify areas of the county which the California Department of Conservation's Division of Mines and Geology has classified as containing or being highly likely to contain significant mineral deposits.

The purpose of this combining designation is to protect existing resource extraction operations from encroachment by incompatible land uses that could hinder resource extraction. In addition, Framework for Planning - Inland Portion, Part I of the Land Use Element contains guidelines which call for proposed land use category amendments to give priority to maintaining land use categories which allow and are compatible with resource extraction.

B.

Processing requirements. The following standards apply to proposed land uses within the EX1 combining designation which are required to have Minor Use Permit or Conditional Use Permit approval by Section 22.06.030 (Allowable Land Uses and Permit Requirements), Article 22.04 (Standards for Specific Land Uses), or by planning area standards in Article 9.

1.

All proposed mineral or petroleum extraction uses are subject to the requirements of Sections 22.14.040 through 22.14.044 and 22.08.170 through 22.08.198.

2.

Approval of any use other than mineral resource extraction may be granted only when the finding is made that the proposed use will not adversely affect the continuing operation or expansion of a mineral resource extraction use.

[Amended 1991, Ord. 2499] [22.07.050, 052]