The Crow Wing County Board Tuesday approved updates to the county's land use ordinance.
Land services staff prepared amendments to five sections of the ordinance, which received a major revision in 2011.
Among the changes were updates to the land use classification list, the addition of a building height definition in the shoreland district, updates to floodplain standards language to meet Federal Emergency Management Agency and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources standards and the addition of a definition of a basement.
Changes to the land use classification list included:
• adding a guest cottage/quarters as a permitted use in the waterfront commercial district;
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• adding a church/synagogue as a permitted use in four different commercial districts;
• deleting amusement parks as a conditional use permitted activity in rural residential 1;
• adding commercial storage buildings as a permitted use in commercial 2;
• and adding resort as a conditional use permitted activity in commercial 1 and 2.
Chris Pence of the land services department told the board Tuesday it received two comments on the ordinance during the public comment period between May 8-June 4, and both were from the DNR. The DNR offered its written approval of the county's changes.
