Commission tables Wylie Township section-line vacation after missing signature

The Grand Forks County Commission on an unspecified date tabled consideration of a petition to vacate a section-line roadway easement in the Ford Subdivision after staff confirmed an adjacent landowner had not signed the petition required under the Century Code.

The petitioners asked the commission to close roughly a 750-foot section line that runs between two lots in the subdivision. Sanford Case, one of the homeowners who brought the petition, told the commission a neighboring lot is owned by Cam Tweaton and that Tweaton had signed an earlier version of the petition but was out of town for a later version that the county’s state attorney requested.

County staff told the commission that under the Century Code landowners who did not sign the petition must be personally served before the board can act. The commission directed staff to place the item on the next agenda; the presenter was told the issue will be scheduled for the Sept. 2 agenda with priority placement.

The item was not formally voted on; the motion recorded in the meeting was to table the petition until the petition could be completed in compliance with the Century Code. The file will return to the commission once the required signature and any necessary personal service have taken place.

The commission did not debate the merits of the vacation at this meeting and did not take any action that accepted or rejected the petition itself.