Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Ellisville Township, North Dakota

Rules another office applies inside Ellisville Township

Ellisville 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

  Single-family dwellings, mobile homes, or manufactured homes on Ellisville Township land in the Williams County Agricultural District, including the Ellisville parcel identified as Agricultural in the county's cited 2017 minutes.

  • The permitted residential-use provision applies in the Agricultural District.
  • The use is subject to building-permit review and approval.
  • No more than two dwellings may be on a lot.
  • The lot must be 40 acres or larger and meet all requirements of the Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance.
  • The use must comply with the North Dakota State Building Code as adopted and amended by Williams County.
  • The cited meeting minutes establish the Agricultural designation for the identified parcel in 2017, not for every parcel in Ellisville Township or necessarily its current designation.

  maximum dwellings per lot: <= 2 dwellings (For single-family dwellings, mobile homes, or manufactured homes in the Agricultural District.) · minimum lot area: >= 40 acres (For the cited permitted residential use in the Agricultural District.)

  “The following uses are permitted in an Agricultural District, subject to building permit review and approval:”

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Land in Ellisville Township, Williams County, for which Williams County zoning applies; official county minutes identify an Ellisville Township parcel as Agricultural and document its county conditional-use-permit proceeding.

  • Williams County zoning applies to townships that have not adopted zoning regulations under NDCC Section 58-03-11.
  • Williams County zoning also applies to townships that formally relinquished zoning authority to the County under NDCC Section 11-33-20.
  • The cited Ellisville Township record concerns a five-acre portion of a 155-acre parcel in the SE1/4 of Section 13, T158N R99W; it does not establish the current district of every parcel in the township.
  • Williams County's ordinance specifically excludes farming or ranching land uses and buildings, except as the ordinance otherwise provides for related ancillary above-ground structures; exempt development is a non-binding guideline.

  “LU-0227-17 A Conditional Use Permit for a water depot at the request of Dawnette Smith. This site is approximately a 5 acre portion of a 155 acre parcel located in the SE1/4 of Section 13, T158N R99W. The property is currently zoned Agricultural. Ellisville Township.”

• Who permits septicLocal (with conditions)

  Septic systems serving land inside Ellisville Township, Williams County, North Dakota.

  • Upper Missouri District Health Unit states that its septic permitting and installer-licensing authority covers Williams County.
  • This authority concerns septic-system permits and installer licensing.

  “The Upper Missouri District Health Unit is the agency with authority to permit septic systems and license installers in the four counties of Divide, McKenzie, Mountrail and Williams.”

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.