Board allows Dunright Heifers to reduce livestock setback to existing structure line; approval caps expansion below CAFO threshold

The Dunn County Board of Adjustment approved a variance allowing Dunright Heifers LLC to reduce the required livestock-structure setback from a property line in the Town of Weston, concluding the site’s topography and existing infrastructure justify a reduced setback and that the proposal would not harm the public interest.

The variance permits reuse and expansion of an existing commodity shed and construction of an attached barn and open lot, with the requested setback reduction noted in staff materials as 20 feet from the property line (applicant stated a measured distance of about 35 feet). The board’s approval included conditions limiting total animal units to the allowable cap described in the 2017 livestock-siting approval and other standard conditions.

Tammy, zoning staff, described the Dunright Heifers parcel near County Road P South in Elmwood as intensive agriculture surrounded by general agriculture…