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Since a state board denied Peak Materials’ application for a gravel mining permit at the Hillyard property in April, neighbors have been left with many questions about what the property’s future might hold.
Jonathan Knopf, president of Friends of the Lower Blue River and a neighbor to the property, said he and other neighbors have expressed interest in purchasing the property from Peak Materials both before and after the permit was denied.
“They know what we’d like to accomplish,” Knopf said. “We more or less need to see what they do.”
Initially, a group of neighbors made a counteroffer to Julie Hillyard when she was selling the property an initiative led by neighbor Ken Brown, Knopf said.
Father and daughter duo Dan and Emma Perritano are walking through Colorado on an annual pilgrimage to raise money for an important cause, spend time together and give Emma, who has cerebral palsy and must.
A car drives past the Hillyard property just off Colorado Highway 9 north of Silverthorne on Wednesday, April 21. A gravel mine is proposed for the site by owner Peak Materials, which is working through the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety s permitting process to mine and then reclaim the site.
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What was supposed to be a decision day for the Mined Land Reclamation Board regarding the Peak Ranch Resource Project has been postponed to next week.
On Thursday, April 22, the board heard about six hours of arguments from those who object to the project. Once arguments finished, the board decided to extend the formal hearing to Thursday, April 29.
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Arguments about the allotment of time for each party to present at the board hearing for the Peak Ranch Resource Project drove the conversation at the pre-hearing conference Wednesday.
The project proposed by Peak Materials is a gravel mine north of Silverthorne. The Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board will consider the application for the Peak Ranch Resource Project at the upcoming hearing April 21-22 and will decide whether it will approve, approve with conditions or deny the application before it would move on to Summit County officials.
The project has been adamantly opposed by residents in the area, and 58 participants attended the virtual pre-hearing conference.
A version of this article first appeared in the Virginia Mercury.
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