Entries for September 2011
September 20, 2011
OSWEGO — Labette County Commissioners on Monday accepted zoning rules for the former Kansas Army Ammunition Plant land. The new regulations will be in effect for land that has already been transferred from the U.S. Army to the Great Plains Development Authority. The only exception is the land transferred to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, because the county can’t zone land owned by the state or federal governments, plus the wildlife land is mostly agricultural and used for hunting. The Labette County Planning Commission has already approved the regulations, and the county commission needed to act on them so they would fall into place when the remaining portion of U.S. Army land is transferred to the GPDA and Day and Zimmermann next month. County planners had already adopted a comprehensive plan for the Great Plains Industrial Park, and approving the zoning rules was required to get the park ready for the final land transfer.The former KSAAP takes up more than 13,000 acres and has been the site of ammunition production since World War II. Day and Zimmermann Inc. manufactures weapons there.
Posted on September 20, 2011
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