Todd County Board of Commissioners: Hunting land affected by proximity of schoolhouse
by Karin L. Nauber
karin@inhnews.com
Is it the county’s responsibility to let neighboring landowners know where buildings will be erected?
It may not be, but a landowner from Fargo, North Dakota certainly would have liked to have had that information as the building of an Amish schoolhouse near his hunting land affects how much of his land he can use.
According to the landowner, hunting laws state that he can’t shoot within 500 feet of any occupied buildings. In essence, that means that he loses about five acres of his hunting land because of where the Amish schoolhouse is being built.
He was notified of the construction of the schoolhouse and had called planning and zoning to find out where it would be built. No one in planning and zoning really knew for certain. One employee said that it would be on the opposite end of his land. He left it at that, but when he came up to the area, he saw that the foundation for the school had already been dug and it would make the five acres unusable for hunting.
He talked to planning and zoning again and the person who had told him it would be on the opposite end apologized and he said he appreciated them taking ownership of the error. . .