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By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com If at first you don’t succeed…come back to the Hubbard County Board of Adjustment in one year’s time. That might be the advice Barry Royce could give to a Garfield Lake father and son who left Monday’s meeting empty-handed. So...

By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com Hubbard County’s Board of Adjustment has denied a four-year-old request by a Big Mantrap Lake homeowner to subdivide his property, ending a long-running dispute. Land owned by Michael and Lisa Reinhart has no legal access to the...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com Board of Adjustment members erected an additional hurdle to variance requests Monday when homeowners want permission to encroach on shoreline setback. In the past, conditions members attach to such requests to mitigate runoff have...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com A decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday could have a bearing on a variance appeal in Hubbard County over a $400,000 garage. The court ruled in a Houston County zoning case that the party trying...

By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com To the ever tricky lexicon of shoreland management terminology, add “creeping elegance” to gems like “bluff impact zone” and “ordinary high water mark.” “It’s probably an old engineering product development expression...

By Anna Erickson aerickson@parkrapidsenterprise.com The Hubbard County Board of Adjustment was once again faced with an after-the-fact variance. Terry Nelson, who has a home on 3rd Crow Wing Lake, approached the board Monday seeking an after-the-fact variance inside the bluff...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com A Laporte homebuilder, on behalf of his clients, said he might appeal an adverse decision last week by Hubbard County’s Board of Adjustment denying installation of an open loop geothermal heating system. Bryan Kerby of Northwoods Log...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com An open loop geothermal heating system, touted as environmentally friendly because it doesn’t burn fossil fuels, was given the thumbs down Monday by Hubbard County’s Board of Adjustment. Too little is known about the system’s...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com The Hubbard County Board of Adjustment granted three variance requests Monday while admitting that seeing the affected properties was almost impossible in the snow. The board granted a variance to Eagle Bay Lodge Coop Assn.’s request...