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The statement read, The Linn County Planning and Zoning Commission met for the second time to consider Alliance application on Monday.

The commissions vote not to recommend the application tied 3-3 with the commissioners present.

Linn County Planning and Development Director Charlie Nichols previously said the tie was an effective denial of the application.

The Corridor Business Journal reported he had fallen out of a combine he was operating during the meeting and hurt his ankle.

Spurslade said he would have voted against the application had he been there.

During the Tuesday Board of Supervisors meeting, the Alliant representatives present for the Planning and Zoning Commission meetings gave a presentation largely similar to the one given the night before.

Alliant Energy Senior Community and Public Affairs Specialist for Iowa Ben Rogers once again urged the supervisors to ground their decision in evidence.

And this is just a stabilization.

Now, hotels have a lot of regulations, a lot of flexibility, too, but a lot of regulations, a lot of commercial property requirements from Sony to grandfather.

But the moment that you start opening walls, then you start opening the grandfather's doors, too.

Right.

The residents then discovered that TCA Code 13301 requires subdivisions with infrastructure improvements to come before the Regional Planning Commission.

When Building and Zoning learned that the developer Cedar Grove Partners had submitted design plans to the state to serve Ridgeline Reserve with water from Columbia Power and Water Systems, the resident's counselor, Dustin Kittle, submitted a legal opinion to Building and Zoning attorney Christy Ransom, arguing that Ridgeline Reserve was due for Planning Commission review.

Ransom concurred with Kittle, and Calderaro's department ordered the developer to appear before the Planning Commission.

There's a presumption that I had a call in divisions of land over five acres, Calderero said, but the subdivision of land was something I knew nothing about until July last year, and I had no material evidence to act on until the following November, when I actually heard from Columbia Power and Water that a water line was in the planning.

The residents then discovered that TCA Code 133401 requires subdivisions with infrastructure improvements to come before the Regional Planning Commission.

When Building and Zoning learned that the developer, Cedar Grove Partners, had submitted design plans to the state to serve Ridgeline Reserve with water from Columbia Power and Water Systems, the residents' counselor, Dustin Kittle, submitted a legal opinion to Building and Zoning attorney Christi Ransom, arguing that Ridgeline Reserve was due for Planning Commission review.

Ransom concurred with Kittle, and Calderaro's department ordered the developer to appear before the Planning Commission.

"There's a presumption that I had a call in divisions of land over five acres," Calderaro said, "But the subdivision of land was something I knew nothing about until July last year, and I had no material evidence to act on until the following November, when I actually heard from Columbia Power and Water that a water line was in the planning," he said.

So...

And then the, the market answer is, Bill Fischer, my hero at Dartmouth, says, "Zonings does-- Y- you should have contractual sale of change, where if you wanna do something and people don't want you to do it, you see how much it... you have to pay to get them to accept whatever it is you want." And again, I would say within a half a mile.

Hmm.

Right? And go at it.

He is the subject of a new documentary.

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And I've got a column on how the biggest legislature in the country can take a lesson or two from the smallest legislature in the country as Queen's Park gets ready for its billion dollar facelift.

It's Friday, October 2nd, 2026.

So let's get to it.

I'm Nam Kiwanuka.

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