(Spirit Lake)– Dickinson County Supervisors also this (Tues.) morning voted 4-1 to approve a request to re-zone nearly 39 acres of land near Francis Sites from Agricultural to Suburban Residential. The county’s Planning and Zoning Commission gave it’s blessing to the zoning change April 21st.
This (Tues.) morning’s action by the Board of Supervisors followed a public hearing. Among those commenting was Steve Anderson, Superintendent of the Iowa Great Lakes Sanitary District. He urged the supervisors to strongly consider the fact that area currently does not have sanitary sewer service. He compares it to several other areas that were developed prior to sanitary sewer being extended into those areas. Anderson requested a committee consisting of county and sanitary district trustees be formed to identify future areas prone for development in the lakes corridor that don’t have sanitary sewer available…
Anderson added the Sanitary District is in the midst of upsizing it’s infrastructure to increase collection capacity…
Anderson says those include a significant upsizing of a sewer main from the Sanitary District’s treatment facility northeast of Milford to Arnolds Park along with upsizing mains around Big Spirit Lake and installing a larger lift station in Orleans.
Several supervisors this (Tues.) morning expressed an interest in forming a committee with Sanitary District trustees to talk about future planning.
