Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Lone Pine Township, Minnesota

Lone Pine Township’s own rules

• Building permitLimited

  New structures and listed development activity inside Lone Pine Township subject to Itasca County zoning jurisdiction.

  • The required county authorization is a zoning permit; the official county page does not characterize it as a general State Building Code permit.
  • Permit is required for new structures, change in use, additions, covered alterations, replacements, signs, sanitation systems, shoreland alterations, and home occupations II.
  • Covered maintenance, alteration, or remodeling is limited to work costing more than 50 percent of the structure’s market value.
  • The permit must be procured at Environmental Services before commencing the project or operation.
  • Shoreland alterations are excepted where Section 5.9 exempts them.
  • Applicants must also comply with township, state, and federal rules and obtain state and federal permits where required; mitigation conditions apply to variances, conditional uses, and nonconforming structures.

  covered maintenance, alteration, or remodeling cost threshold: > 50 percent of structure market value (Normal maintenance below this threshold is described in the county zoning-permit checklist as not requiring a zoning permit.)

  “A zoning permit is required for new structures; change in use; new additions;”

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Land inside Lone Pine Township, Itasca County, Minnesota; county zoning controls apply because the township is not an incorporated municipality.

  • The current county ordinance index identifies a "Zoning Ordinance (3/1/2025)."
  • The cited county jurisdiction statement excludes incorporated municipalities; it does not establish that Lone Pine Township separately adopted or administers a township zoning ordinance.
  • Zoning permits are conditioned on the applicable county ordinance, and township, state, and federal rules may separately require permits.

  “Itasca County’s zoning jurisdiction does not include incorporated municipalities.”

• Who permits septicCounty (with conditions)

  Subsurface sewage treatment systems serving land inside Lone Pine Township, including unsewered township land.

  • Itasca County Environmental Services Department administers the SSTS program and the ordinance’s provisions.
  • The county ordinance applies to all county lands except an incorporated area that administers an approved qualifying SSTS ordinance; that exception does not describe Lone Pine Township.
  • State agencies administer specified systems, including systems requiring state approval; state disposal-system permits apply at an average design flow greater than 10,000 gallons per day or a measured daily flow of at least 10,000 gallons per day for seven consecutive days.
  • For non-state-administered systems, a construction permit from Environmental Services is required before installation, construction, replacement, extension, or alteration.

  state disposal-system permit average design-flow threshold: > 10000 gallons per day (MPCA permit for onsite SSTS or group of SSTS on adjacent properties under single ownership.) · state disposal-system permit measured-flow threshold: >= 10000 gallons per day for a consecutive seven-day period (MPCA permit.)

  “The jurisdiction of this Ordinance shall include all lands of the County except for any incorporated area [...]”

Each answer was extracted from an official source and independently re-checked against that source by a second reviewer. That is an evidence check, not legal advice. Rules change; confirm with the authority before you buy or build.