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County zoning map: Valar's lease is Mining & Grazing; where RW 453 was staked is zoned rural residential

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2026-09 · dir-013 · Carbon County, Valar Atomics

Carbon County's own zoning map service (the county's 'County Zoning' layer, checked in late September 2026 at the center of each area) shows: Section 16, T14S R11E, Valar's Wellington lease, zoned M&G, 'Mining and Grazing Zone' (matching the Trust Lands memo, csite-015); the NW quarter of Section 28, where the RW 453 notice places the claim, zoned RR-1, 'One-acre Rural Residential Zone', and the NE quarter zoned RR-2.5, 'Two-and-one-half-acre Rural Residential Zone' (the notice names both quarters, mine-453). Utah's county land-use law does not give the county jurisdiction over land the United States owns, unless other law provides it (Utah Code 17-79-306), and about 37% of Section 28's north half is a federal parcel; the rest is private land under the county's zoning. What the county's residential zones allow is set by Carbon's development code, which this record does not summarize for those zones.

In plain termsThe county's own zoning map puts the square mile the state approved leasing to Valar in its mining-and-grazing zone, where, the state's lease memo says, big industrial projects need a county permit. The land named on Valar's mining-claim notice, two miles south, is zoned for rural homes.
verified 2026-10-02: Read from Carbon County's public zoning map service at the center of each section or quarter named (BLM survey grid): Sec 16 M&G; Sec 28 NW quarter RR-1; Sec 28 NE quarter RR-2.5; Sec 36 M&G; Sec 2 T15S M&G. Quarter-center points only: zone lines inside a quarter were not mapped. Revised before publication (late September 2026): lease wording now 'approved leasing'.

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