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MAY' 119901 BOOK ! PAGE100 Mr. McQueen emphasized that if this was to be a mining operation, they would be applying for a 35=ft. depth to start and come back in later on for another 15 feet to go to a 50 -ft depth. Their mining permit is for 12-14 feet below natural ground, exactly the same as their surface water management permit. They are presently clearing to dig the lake under their surface water management permit, and they have agreed to dig the lake in the wet without dewatering to prevent the degradation to the wells in that area. One of the conditions of the permit is that the material that is removed from the site cannot be transported east on Winter Beach Road nor south on Kings Highway, and the alternative is to go north on Kings Highway. If they were permitted to haul half (30,000 cu. yds.) of the dirt offsite, he anticipated that the contractor would move 2,000-4,000 yards a day and that the operation would take 15 days to two weeks. Attorney Vitunac advised that as a matter of law, it was his opinion that the Board could not grant this special exception today, no matter what the applicant says. We have a finding by staff that two of the criteria of the ordinance have not been met, and if there are no good reasons for those criteria to be in the ordinance, which is what this argument involves, the Board's motion would be to have staff change the ordinance and have the applicant come back at a public hearing. Mr. McQueen has the opportunity today to say that the nearby subdivisions are serviced by water and that there is no one within 1,000 feet of the lake., but he has not proven either one of those, and now his argument is whether we should have those restrictions in :our ordinance. Commissioner Scurlock still was concerned that wells in the nearby subdivisions might go dry because of the digging of this lake, and Mr. McQueen pointed out that there is no question that they would pull down the water table in the area if they were 28 r