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Stearns County board approves variance to register 3.5-animal-unit feedlot on 2.62-acre parcel in Albany Township
Summary
The Stearns County Board of Adjustment granted a variance allowing Travis Toole to register a 3.5 animal-unit feedlot on a 2.62-acre parcel at 34377 County Road 10 in Albany Township after staff review and neighbor support.
The Stearns County Board of Adjustment voted unanimously to grant a variance allowing a feedlot registered for 3.5 animal units on a 2.62-acre parcel at 34377 County Road 10 in Albany Township.
The variance was requested by applicant Travis Toole to register a barn and outdoor lot that would house five feeder steers on a parcel that the county said has remained 2.62 acres since at least 1966. Stearns County staff read the request into the record and recommended granting or denying the variance based on the board’s findings of fact.
The board’s nut graf: The request exceeds the ordinance allowance for a parcel that size (staff said the ordinance allows one animal unit for a parcel this small), but board members concluded the proposed use is consistent with surrounding agricultural land and answered all seven required findings in the affirmative.
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