(Spirit Lake)– The Spirit Lake city council Tuesday held the second reading of a proposed ordinance regulating outdoor woodburning heating systems. Among other things, the proposed ordinance would ban the devices from residential areas of the city, only allowing them in industrial or commercial zoned areas.
Councilman Clyde Ihrke again expressed his opposition to the proposed ordinance…(click here for comment.) “I think there’s regulations we can look at to set up to where it can be regulated for the woodburners. I’ve seen other things. I guess the biggest thing I would like to point out is I don’t want to see a precedence set to where we’re going to possibly see any repercusions in the future in regards to fireplaces or indoor woodburning stoves, so…”
The vote to proceed with the second reading was four-to-one, with Ihrke casting the no vote.
The measure will come back to the council for a third reading and possible adoption at it’s next meeting January 22nd.
