NOTICE OF SPECIAL 

PUBLIC MEETING

This is to notify the public that a special meeting of the Pope County Planning Advisory Commission (PAC) will take place on Thursday, June 6th, 2024 beginning at or about 6:00 pm or shortly thereafter in the Pope County Courthouse, 3rd Floor Board Room, to consider the following agenda items:  

• New Business

o Interim Use hearing on the application by Central Specialties, Inc., if granted would allow applicants to establish an aggregate (gravel) mining operation in an Agriculture Protection (A-1) zoning district, per section 7.4.D and 10.2 of the Pope County Land Use Controls Ordinance. Parcel is described as being located in: Part of the East Half of the Northeast Quarter (E ½ NE ¼), and the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW ¼ NE ¼), Section 4, Township 124 (Walden), Range 40, Pope County, Minnesota.

Public participation by interested parties and citizens will include an opportunity to:

1) submit written concerns and comment prior to the scheduled meeting.  All such communications will be shared with the Planning Advisory Commission prior to or during the meeting;

2) submit concerns and comments via Pope County’s Public Comment web map, go to https://www.popecountymn.gov, at the top of the page hover over Government, then under Board of Adjustment/Planning Advisory Commission, select Submit a Public Comment or type in the following link to access the Public Comment web map: (https://popecounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=22a203912a864a77b4cdabe672e35e3f) 

3) review the staff prepared report via Pope County website;

4) observe and/or participate by providing verbal comments in the Public Hearing portion of the Planning Advisory Commission meeting.

FOR LEGAL PUBLICATION

Jessica Hill, Deputy Land & 

Resource Director / Zoning 

Administrator

Pope County Land & 

Resource Management

May 20