Cranston City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 17
44 QUARRYING OF STONE, SAND, GRAVEL AND TOPSOIL
§ 17.44.010 Removal of stone, sand, gravel and subsoil.
A.
Permit Required. The quarrying of stone, sand, gravel and subsoil shall be permitted only under permit from the zoning board of review. The board of review shall require the following:
1.
That at no time of year shall quarries be maintained at levels such that ground or surface water will accumulate; such areas shall be either filled or drained.
2.
That quarrying operations be performed not closer than fifty (50) feet to any public road or to any dwelling, school or park.
3.
That when quarrying is discontinued, earth shall be reshaped to reduce the disfigurement of the land. The maximum allowable slopes shall be one foot in two feet. These measures shall be taken progressively as the use of each part of an operating quarry is discontinued.
4.
That all timbers, structures and the like shall be removed when the operation is terminated.
5.
Whatever additional requirements it may deem necessary to accomplish the purposes herein stated. These requirements in addition to those above, shall be considered as conditions of the permit.
B.
Restrictions of Permit. No permit shall be valid for longer than one year. The extension of existing quarries as nonconforming uses shall be restricted to the property lines of the parcel upon which such operations are in progress at the time of the adoption of this chapter. Operations in existing quarries shall not be extended closer than fifty (50) feet to a public road, existing dwelling, park or school.
(Prior code § 30-18(i))