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newrecordconfirmed County zoning map: Valar's lease is Mining & Grazing; where RW 453 was staked is zoned rural residential
2026-09-29 · dir-013 · Carbon County, Valar Atomics, Altigen JS, LLC

Carbon County's own zoning map service (the county's 'County Zoning' layer, queried 29 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, fld-002); and both parcels of the 'Jurassic Spark' technology park on the 6 October Planning Commission agenda, Section 36 T14S R11E and Section 2 T15S R11E, zoned M&G (dir-015). County zoning does not govern land the United States owns (Utah Code 17-79-306), and about 37% of Section 28's north half is a federal parcel (dir-002); 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 sits on a county site that refuses our reader.

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 big industrial projects need a county permit. The land named on Valar's mining-claim notice, two miles south, is zoned for rural homes. The proposed technology park east of Wellington is in the mining-and-grazing zone.
verified 2026-09-29: Read from Carbon County's public zoning map service at the centre 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. Correction 2026-09-29 (wording review): lease wording now 'approved leasing'.

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