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Planning commission rejects rezoning request off Hwy. 53
Recommends BOC not approve 272 housing units
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Lifelong Dawson County resident Mike Miller told the commissioners that he is not against growth and development in the county, but he is against this high density development proposed on the two parcels near Beartooth Pkwy. - photo by Jessica Taylor
A year after concerned residents thought the battle over two parcels of land off Hwy. 53 was over, the issue was brought before the Dawson County Planning Commission again last week. The law firm of Miles Hansford and Tallant presented its requests to rezone two parcels of land from Residential Agricultural to Residential Multi-Family during the Dec. 19 meeting. The first application hoped to rezone 15.828 acres to create a 95 unit town home community; the second would rezone 59.497 acres to create a 177 home neighborhood. The parcels are located on a busy stretch of road on Beartooth Parkway and where Dawson Forest Road runs into Hwy. 53. The rezoning requests were met with fierce opposition from concerned residents, many of whom were present during last year’s commission meeting regarding the two properties.