Public hearing next week on ALDI development plans in Detroit Lakes
The Detroit Lakes Planning Commission will review a property subdivision request related to the ALDI project at the commission s next regular meeting on Thursday, Feb. 25. Public comments are being accepted now through 11 a.m. that day. 7:00 am, Feb. 17, 2021 ×
A new ALDI grocery store opened in Bemidji in October 2020. If all goes as planned in Detroit Lakes, construction will begin this summer on an ALDI here, in front of the Boys & Girls Club Thrift Store on Highway 10 West. (Forum News Service File Photo)
Plans to bring an ALDI grocery store into Detroit Lakes are continuing to inch toward the checkout counter.
Detroit Lakes may sue neighboring townships over 2-mile extraterritorial dispute
Members of the Detroit Lakes City Council and city staff debated actions, including potential lawsuits, against the city s neighboring townships who have decided to push forward with their plans to craft subdivision ordinances with Becker County, which would leave the city without any control over the land divisions under 5-acres within two miles of the city s borders.
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Michael Achterling | ×
A map of the 2-mile extraterritorial zone around Detroit Lakes, marked by County Surveyor Roy Smith with pink arrows showing sites of land division controversy. (Nathan Bowe/Tribune)
Detroit Lakes may end up taking six surrounding townships to court to preserve its ability to control subdivision zoning in the two-mile extraterritorial zone outside city limits.
Regulatory overkill, fees drive township frustration with Detroit Lakes 2-mile zone
That new road would be 770 feet long. Eidenschink walked it off with a measuring wheel. He doesn’t know how much that would cost, but he knows 770 feet of new roadway doesn’t come cheap.
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Nathan Bowe | ×
With Big Floyd Lake in the background, Jessica Eidenschink and her 5-month-old Boxer, Fitz, walk on the shoreland area where Patrick and Shirlee Eidenschink plan to build their retirement home if they can get it platted. (Nathan Bowe/Tribune)
So why are some township people unhappy with the two-mile city subdivision authority around the city of Detroit Lakes?