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Commission hears call to re-examine feedlot and dairy regulations amid calls to ease rules for developers
Summary
A participant reported outreach from a Meade County dairy asking to loosen commercial feedlot regulations; commissioners discussed past abatements and trade-offs between regulation and attracting development.
Commissioners heard that agricultural processors and feedlot operators have asked for eased commercial feedlot regulations to attract development. One speaker described a representative from Meade County asking the commission to consider removing or easing certain regulatory requirements.
Participants noted that some neighboring counties provide abatements and that feedlot expansions in Meade County reportedly receive repeated 10-year abatements when they add buildings. "Every time they add a building, they get another 10 years," a participant said of that county practice. Commissioners discussed what elements of the county’s CUP and zoning rules they might reconsider, and staff agreed to circulate related materials and any submitted requests for review.
No code changes were adopted; staff will email submitted materials to commissioners and include them in upcoming books for review.
