Supervisors revive consideration of airport ordinance

By: 
Robert Maharry

Now that the lion’s share of work on the Ivester Wind Farm is complete, local officials who have advocated for a new ordinance at the Grundy Center Airport that would allow the city to recoup grant money from the Department of Transportation (DOT) returned to address the Grundy County Board of Supervisors on Monday morning.
           
Brian Schoon of the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments (INRCOG), Grundy County Sanitarian/Zoning Administrator Carie Sager and Grundy Center City Clerk Kristy Sawyer all appeared before the board to make the request, and according to Schoon, he secured a six-month extension with the DOT until the end of 2018 to make a final decision.
           
The supervisors had previously expressed trepidation about supporting the ordinance because of language that could have restricted the construction of structures over a certain height within the area immediately surrounding the sparsely used airport, located about four miles west of Grundy Center. 
 
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