{"id":3119,"date":"2010-07-13T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T02:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2010-07-13T21:01:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T02:01:47","slug":"someone-doesnt-roll-over-for-a-jci-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3119","title":{"rendered":"Someone doesn&#8217;t roll over for a JCI Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><br \/>\nSt. Louis County Board of Adjustment Denies Variance Request<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nfor ISD 2142\u00c2\u2019s New South School<\/p>\n<p>District will re-examine site plan as design and construction of the school proceeds<\/p>\n<p>Virginia, Minn. (July 13, 2010) \u00c2\u2013 The St. Louis County Board of Adjustment on Tuesday denied a variance that would have allowed the St. Louis County School District (ISD 2142) to exceed the amount of impervious surfaces allowed by ordinance for the school district\u00c2\u2019s planned New South School site in New Independence Township.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis County ordinance allows coverage by impervious surfaces \u00c2\u2013 such as buildings, parking lots and other surfaces into which water cannot be absorbed \u00c2\u2013 of up to 10 percent of a property\u00c2\u2019s size. County staff had recommended approval of a variance allowing up to 17.5 percent impervious surfaces on the 77.5 acre school site.  The Board of Adjustment voted 4-2 to deny the variance, but added that the denial was \u00c2\u201cwithout prejudice,\u00c2\u201d encouraging the school district to re-examine the design plans to reduce lot coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u201cWe\u00c2\u2019re disappointed in today\u00c2\u2019s denial, because the St. Louis County Planning and Development Department carefully studied our plans, including the in-depth Storm Water Prevention Plan we created specifically for this site,\u00c2\u201d said ISD 2141 Board Chair Bob Larson. \u00c2\u201cAs we proceed with construction of this school, we will be working with our architects and professionals so we will meet the county\u00c2\u2019s requirements and the conditions of the approval we received last week from the Planning Commission.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of their discussion, the Board of Adjustment also asked the county attorney to clarify her recent denial of an appeal from the group opposed to the plan for construction of new schools in ISD 2142.  This appeal was filed by Tim Kotzian, Clerk\/Treasurer of Tower. <\/p>\n<p>For more information about ISD #2142, including site plans for the new schools, visit www.isd2142.k12.mn.us.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis County Board of Adjustment Denies Variance Request for ISD 2142\u00c2\u2019s New South School District will re-examine site plan as design and construction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}