Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Lee Township, Minnesota

Rules another office applies inside Lee Township

Lee Township does not set these itself; the county, a health district or the state does, and they apply to every address inside its limits.

• Building permitRequired

  Construction, alteration or moving of buildings inside Lee township, under the county zoning ordinance (county administers in unincorporated areas)

  • Application to the administrator with a scaled plan showing lot dimensions and building and accessory building size and location
  • Fee set by the county board; after-the-fact fees for work without permit
  • Extra rules in floodplain or shoreland districts
  • State building code administration not researched

  “hereafter no person shall erect, alter, wreck, or move any building or part thereof without first securing a building permit.”

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Land inside Lee township (Norman County, MN), an unincorporated township; zoning is the Norman County Zoning Ordinance administered by the county, not a Lee township ordinance

  • The county page says county-wide zoning applies in all unincorporated areas; no Lee-township-specific zoning ordinance was found and the sources do not name Lee township
  • Shoreland and floodplain districts carry additional regulations
  • Zoning districts include Agricultural District A; dimensional limits not researched

  “the county also permits and enforces county-wide zoning in all unincorporated areas of norman county.”

• Who permits septicCounty (with conditions)

  Subsurface sewage treatment systems on land inside Lee township; Norman County Environmental Services is the permitting authority

  • Excludes incorporated areas that administer their own program by ordinance
  • Lee township is not shown to run its own SSTS program

  “the construction, installation, modification and operation of a subsurface sewage treatment system requires a permit from the norman county environmental services department.”

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.