(Spirit Lake)– Any development planned for the immediate future shouldn’t be scrapped just because it could be in the way of a new airport that may or may not eventually be built in Dickinson county. That was the feeling Monday from the county’s board of adjustment.
Terry Lutz, an engineer with McClure Engineering of Fort Dodge which recently completed an airport feasibility study, presented board members with maps of four potential airport sites. McClure said they could be looking into those further if the cities of Milford and Spirit Lake decide to pursue a new airport. He’s requesting the county adopt an ordinance that would prevent tall structures such as cell towers and wind turbines from being built in those areas.
But Rosalise Olson, a board member, said she wants a more definitive word on where an airport would be built before she’d be willing to vote on a tall structure ordinance.
Board Chairman Don Oleson added it isn’t the the board of adjustment’s fault the airport is behind other projects that are being constructed or about to be.
