Commission hears two exemption requests from large-acre rules

Two very different requests came before the Crook County Commissioners last week from landowners hoping to sidestep the new regulations for large-acre subdivisions.

While the first was for a single chunk from a personal property that the owner would like to sell, the second was a subdivision containing more than 30 individual tracts that was completed by a developer around the time the new rules came into being.

In the first instance, the request was for a 36.7-acre parcel south of Pine Haven. Colt Massie explained that he had bought several parcels adjacent to one another and had decided to s...