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Board approves multiple planning items and launches targeted trail engagement

Rice County Board of Commissioners · June 9, 2026

Summary

The board approved a series of Planning Commission recommendations — waiver plats, an interim use permit for aggregate removal, a conditional-use permit for a truck repair business, a preliminary PUD plan and a zoning map amendment hearing date — and authorized a targeted public engagement plan for a Dundas–Cannon River Wilderness Park trail with return in October.

Environmental Services staff (Julie) presented multiple Planning Commission recommendations and status updates. The board approved a waiver plat for landowners Lehi and Cynthia Cunningham, a waiver plat for Byron O'Connor, an interim use permit for an aggregate-mining operation for Max Johnson Trucking Inc., a conditional use permit for a truck repair business for Sam Logistics Corporation, and a preliminary plan for a planned-unit development. The board also directed staff to set a public hearing on a zoning map amendment for property in Section 19 of Morrison Township with a hearing scheduled for 06:30 on July 2.

Julie outlined a targeted community engagement plan for a potential trail connecting Dundas to the Cannon River Wilderness Park, proposing surveys, stakeholder interviews, focus groups with affected landowners, an online comment map and a final report to the board in October. "Our community engagement process would look at the impacts to the landowners along that route," Julie said; she said staff would use SurveyMonkey, park tabling and focus groups to evaluate usage demand and maintenance costs before any right-of-way planning.

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