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Scofield council amends land-use code to prohibit mining in agricultural zone
Summary
At a May 19 public hearing, the Scofield Town Council approved an amendment to Table 2 of the town’s land-use ordinance to change extraction/mining from a special-use allowance to a prohibited use in the agricultural zone, applying only within town limits.
Scofield Town Council voted May 19, 2025, to amend the town’s land-use ordinance to prohibit extraction and mining activities in the municipal agricultural zone, removing mining as an allowed special use within town limits.
Council leaders said the change is intended to close what they described as a loophole that previously allowed mining in the agricultural zone by special-use permit. The amendment moves “extraction of sand, gravel, earth, stone, gas, minerals, petroleum or similar resources” in Table 2 (use item 132) from a conditional/special-use classification to “not allowed”…
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