The North Dakota Model Zoning Task Force met this past week. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said many of the standards being evaluated have not been touched in decades. The task force is studying what has been done in neighboring states and will ultimately propose draft language to the interim committee to be considered in this next legislative session. “We looked at how a lot of different states function and their setback distances,” said Goehring. “Their separation distances were a lot less than ours. Much of our language was developed three or four decades ago and we really needed to update it and consider what newer facilities look like.”
