The Park Rapids City Council on Tuesday revoked a conditional use permit (CUP) for a telecommunications site, including a 150-foot monopole with extensions and a 10x14-foot equipment platform, at 1013 1st St. E.
City Planner Ben Oleson explained that the CUP was granted in 2017, but the property owners, Covenant Ridge Investments LLC, never acted on it.
Oleson noted that CUPs normally expire after one year. “There have been several extensions given, and they have not built it to-date,” he said. “They can still come back and apply for it again, if they want to at some point in the future, but they would have to go through that process all over again.”
Council member Tom Conway made a motion to approve the revocation, and the motion passed unanimously.
City resident Dan Mitchell used the public comment part of the meeting to question the city’s interest in levying a local sales tax.
Mitchell questioned the city’s use of a vehicle count on U.S. Hwy. 71 in its application for legislative authorization. City Administrator Angel Weasner said the car count was only used to show how much traffic through town increases during the summer.
Mitchell said a better count would be the number of vehicles stopping at the city’s gas stations. “Find out how much gas tax is going to Minneapolis and what percentage of it do we get back,” he said.
Weasner said the city can look at that.
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