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Park board agrees to convey two tracts to resolve long-running Blacktail lot dispute
Summary
After more than two decades of dispute over access and title at Blacktail Dam, the Williams County Park Board voted unanimously to convey two small tracts to adjacent property owners to resolve the issue rather than offer a long-term easement.
The Williams County Park Board voted unanimously to convey two small tracts of land adjacent to Lots 201 and 202 at Blacktail Dam to the property owners, the board decided at a public meeting. The action followed presentations from an attorney for the property owners, county staff and questions from board members.
The decision seeks to settle a dispute dating to the 1990s over land swaps and access that county records and a February 2003 North Dakota Game and Fish memorandum describe. Attorney Tom Kalile, representing the property owners, told the board the original subdivision process intended to “make this lot whole” and argued that conveying the two tracts would correct title issues created when the land swap was recorded in the county name rather than being added to the private lots.
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