Commission declines to grant sewer variance

The Hill County Commission voted down Thursday Mike Winchell’s request for a variance that would allow him to install a septic tank on a property he recently developed east of 32nd Avenue East,

Hill County Commissioner Diane McLean voting for the variance and Hill County commissioners Mike Wendland and Mark Peterson voting against.

The subdivsion agreement for the land required that Winchell, owner of Lodestar Land and Home, hook the property into the public sewer system.

He said at previous meetings on the issue that he later found that the proximity of his property to the sewer main...