LODGEPOLE -- The Lodgepole Village Board of Trustees approved zoning 2221 Cheyenne County Road 147 as Industrial.

A Workshop and Special Meeting was held September 9 including Discussion and Action on zoning of 2221 County Road 147. 

The zoning request had been approved by the Planning and Zoning Committee.

Alan Runge said Tuesday some of the some of the Trustees wanted to know why some of  the Planning and Zoning Committee voted the way they did.

Village Board Trustee Jaime Dykman asked to clarify her role in the process.

"When that motion was made -- I was the one who made that motion -- let me clarify that I was not asking why they voted. I was asking for information to help inform me, so I can make a decision," Dykman said.

She stressed she didn't want to know why Committee members voted. She wanted to know the difference between agriculture, industrial and commercial.

"Again. I am not, and that motion was not to say 'tell me why you voted.' That motion was help educate me and inform me the differences of these here. Because there are realities here: industrial, vs commercial vs agriculture. I'm not an expert. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert. I didn't feel like there was enough of a difference explained," she said.

Board member Ken Kepler said he did his own research.

"Being new to the board, and just hearing about this for the first time, that's the reason I needed more information, or more time to get the information, so I went home and did my own due diligence. In this particular case, if we were to zone it Agricultural, that does not allow them to have a commercial business anything other than agricultural. So, that knocks Agricultural zoning out of it. If we zone it Commercial, they cannot have their haying operation, because under the Commercial zoning, that does not allow for anything agricultural. The only other zoning opportunity to allow a commercial business, and the agricultural business, is the Industrial zoning," Kepler said.

Board member Jaime Dykman voted no and Board Chairman Susan Mitchell abstained.