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Plat book maps posted on Web site
Cass County Correspondent BACKUS - Cass County has posted the county's plat book maps on the county Web site, www.co.cass.mn.us.
Because the county owns the copyright for the maps, the maps may be copied and printed only for personal use.
Management Information Systems Director Tim Richardson said each township map will be updated about once a year, with newly printed hard copy plat books available for sale to the public through a 4-H project annually.
The county recorded 700 new parcels and 1,200 lot splits in 2006, so updating each township map takes employees several days. As a township map is updated during the year, Richardson said a star will be placed next to the name of that township or city in the index list on the Web site.
Results of a survey Pine River Watershed Protection Foundation conducted will be posted on the county Web site. About one-third of the 3,400 surveys mailed by random selection to some of the 15,610 landowners in the watershed were returned. Survey questions related to needs for guiding future growth, wetland risks in a changing landscape, phosphorus runoff from shorelines and other sources.
Respondents and their families have owned their properties an average of 20.7 years. They included 416 full-time residents, 343 who consider themselves seasonal owners and 312 who said they are weekend residents. About half said at least one member of their family is retired.
Pine River Watershed primarily covers an area in central Cass and northern Crow Wing counties, but overlaps slightly in Aitkin and Hubbard counties. The watershed organization started in 1998, but fell in activity before being re-started in 2005, according to Ed Feiler, Minnesota DNR.
Bill Brown, Camp Ripley natural resource manager, reported Tuesday to the county board 140 land owners have expressed interest in the camp's three-mile perimeter buffer zone. Of those, 22 have completed deals with the federal government for easements within the buffer zone.
The county board referred to the planning commission and environmental services committee Brown's request for the county to establish a system to notify land buyers within the zone about the camp's buffer zone project and of the fact large planes fly up to 40 miles north of Camp Ripley as a part of a loop during training sessions.
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