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the study. Mr. Fox owns about 70 acres of the North 66th Street site, where . he has farmed since 1935. Mr. Thorpe said Mr. Fox owns a portion of the site identified as Tax lot 400, which is included within tne area planned and zoned for gravel and sand extraction. Mr. Thorpe asked Mr. Fox to describe activities that have occurred on the property. Everett Fox, PO Box 32, Thurston, described resource extraction activities that had taken place on his property, including the removal of 2.5 million board feet of timber in 1958; removal of 30,000 cubic yards of gravel in 1958 and 59, as well as additional 30,000 cubic yards of gravel in 1960; removal of 450,000 board feet of timber in 1969; removal of 400,000 board feet of timber in 1978; removal of 10,000 cubic yards of gravel in 1987; and removal of 370,000 board feet of timber in 1990. Mr. Fox said he had a State permit for gravel extraction and maintained that he had been told by the Division of State lands he had no wetlands on his property. Mr. Thorpe reiterated Mr. Fox's statement that the property was zoned and designated for use for sand and gravel extraction. He reported that Mr. Fox had entered into an agreement with Delta Sand and Gravel in 1990 for gravel extraction. Delta Sand and Gravel applied to lane County for a variance from an ordinance requiring 60 feet of road frontage in order to extract gravel from the property. Due to neighborhood opposition, Delta Sand and Gravel dropped its request for a variance. . Mr. Thorpe said that adjacent property owners within the North 66th Street site had requested the planning commissions include the site in the study area. The inclusion of the site in the study reflected that request. Mr. Fox, who owns 35 acres of the affected site, discovered the site's inclusion in the study in June 1992. Mr. Thorpe maintained that the request to include the site in the study was an effort on the part of the neighbors to stop Mr. Fox from benefitting from his property. Mr. Thorpe discussed the permitting process for sand and gravel extraction. Mr. Thorpe said that while the study permits the development of designated sand and gravel resources on the eastern portion of the site, extra regulato- ry constraints created by the study would delay gravel removal. Mr. Thorpe asked the elected officials to exclude Mr. Fox's property from the study. He gave staff a list of resource extractions made from the property over the years cited by Mr. Fox. Mr. Cornacchia noted that the Springfield Utility Board and a recommendation action in the study called for a groundwater study involving the impacts on the utility board's wells prior to sand and gravel extraction. He asked Mr. Thorpe if there was a permitting requirement regarding groundwater impact. Mr. Thorpe said that he believed such a review was the purview of the Coun- ty's Sand and Gravel Review Committee. Mr. Cornacchia asked if Mr. Thorpe . MINUTES--Joint Elected Officials July 1, 1992 Page 11