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))