At the Sabetha City Commission meeting Monday, April 8, the commissioners – Mayor Doug Clark, Maridel Wittmer, Nick Aberle, Norm Schmitt and Julie Burenheide – approved Ordinance No. 1538, expanding Sabetha’s extraterritorial district.
This comes following a recommendation of the city’s Planning Commission to approve this expansion.
The new the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction is now at the legal maximum distance, which is three miles from any property legally considered to be within Sabetha’s city limits — including Sabetha City Lake and Pony Creek Lake. In the cases in which the three-mile distance comes within three miles of another incorporated city’s potential three-mile jurisdiction, the City of Sabetha has only gone half the distance.
Since the City of Sabetha did not previously include property surrounding the two city-owned lakes as extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction, the new jurisdiction has expanded the city’s jurisdiction four-fold.
(Read more: Sabetha Herald)