New quarries could be shielded from virtually any county or municipal oversight, including the controversial open-pit limestone mine proposed for Parleys Canyon, under a bill unveiled Monday in the Utah House.
, Tree Farm argued its project qualifies as a vested mining use under current law, so the county has no say in the matter.
Most of the Wasatch foothills and canyons in Salt Lake County, thanks to its rich mining legacy, would be open to new mining under this language, even if these locations are no longer suitable for mining, according to Carl Fisher, executive director of“It creates this slippery slope thing where you can go out and buy up land around these old mine locations and basically say, ‘I have a vested mining use,’” Fisher said. The ramifications would not be limited to just Parleys.
Lassley recently acquired a 50% stake in the century-old Harper quarry across the freeway from the site of the proposed pit at Exit 132. His lawyers have claimed that silver mining once occurred on the Parleys property, which he acquired in 2020 from the late Park City entrepreneur Ira Sachs along with several other parcels in the canyon.
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