Commissioners Must Delay Approval Of High West Request

A public hearing was held at the Board of County Commissioners meeting the morning of February 19, to decide whether or not to approve the Conditional Use Permit Application from High West Energy to add a communication tower within the HWE substation located on County Road 54 in Kimball County.

The primary concern of the board was whether or not the communication tower met the regulations in place for a conditional use permit.

“One of the stipulations in a conditional use permit for communication towers is that the height of a communication tower shall not exceed the distance between the base...