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Proposed Items:

• Local Water Management Plan 2010-2014
  • Full Draft Document

  (This document is 84 pages/21.1 MB)

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• Septic Revolving Loan Program Information & Application

• Preliminary Floodplain Maps

• Update of the Rice County Sewage & Wastewater Treatment Ordinance

• Roberds Lake Watershed Septic Inventory Project

• Lonsdale Area Access Management & Safety Plan

(Presented to County Board on June 17, 2008)

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Department Overview

The Planning & Zoning Office prepares and implements the County Comprehensive Plan and plans for all of the townships.  This office issues all building permits and on-site sewer permits, enforces Wetland Conservation Act in a number of townships, administers the Zoning and Subdivision ordinances, and issues conditional use and administrative permits in the township areas.  The department works with the Planning Commission, the Board of Adjustment, and assorted committees established for specific purposes related to the department's responsibilities.

Planning Commission meetings are on the 1st Thursdays of each month.  Board of Adjustment meetings are on the 2nd Monday of each month.

Click on the following links to learn more about these committees:

Planning Commission

Board of Adjustment 

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Divisions of the Planning & Zoning Department

• Rice County Zoning Ordinance dated July 15, 2004 (includes amendments thru July, 2007) 
• Planning Commission & Dates
• Board of Adjustment & Dates
• Environmental Planning 
• Building Division 
• Environmental Health 
• Planning and Zoning Administration
• Feedlots
• Rice County Property Information
  • Property Tax Records Inquiry
• Economic Development Planning

• Cannon River Watershed Partnership
• Geologic Atlas
• MN Department of Natural Resources
• Minnesota Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Rice Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD)
• Soil Survey
• US Census- Rice County Quick Facts