(Spirit Lake)– The Dickinson county board of supervisors Tuesday voted unanimously in favor of a Planning and Zoning Commission recommendation approving a final plat for a subdivision at McClelland’s Beach on the north side of Big Spirit Lake.
Homes, many of them seasonal, are already in that area. They were constructed on leased land. The owner of that land has opted not to renew the leases to make way for the new development consisting of 98 lots on 5,425 feet of lakeshore and an additional 36 lots off the lake. People already living there are being given the first option to purchase lots.
Supervisors also Tuesday approved a preliminary plat for 50 acres of agriculturally-zoned land on the south side of Center Lake, known as “Faye Meadows”. Zoning Administrator David Kolhaase said the landowner, Ken Ferguson, has no immediate plans to develop that area. Kolhaase said any residential development of that area would require a zoning change and would have to go through the subdivision process.
Even though no development is planned in that area for now, Supervisor Wayne Northey expressed concern over the lack of sanitary sewer availability in that area and in other critical areas…some of which are already developed with private sewer systems that could eventually fail, allowing sewage to get into the lakes.
