Jan. 11—The following stories from this week appeared on
www.jamestownsun.com
and in The Jamestown Sun.
The Jamestown City Council unanimously approved on Monday, Jan. 6, a proposal by Heartland Heating & Cooling in Jamestown
to purchase and develop property
at the Harold P. Bensch Addition.
The city attorney’s office also was authorized to work with Heartland Heating & Cooling to prepare documents for City Council approval.
In related business, the City Council held the first reading of an ordinance to change the zoning of lots one and two on block one and lot one on block two of the Harold P. Bensch Addition.
The properties are located at 301, 401 and 402 11th Ave. SE.
The zoning on the properties will be changed from a general industrial and manufacturing district to a general commercial district.
Heartland Heating & Cooling’s proposal includes building a 12,000-square-foot building.
The Stutsman County Commission unanimously approved on Tuesday, Jan. 7, submitting
a letter of support to the city of Jamestown
for a U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development grant application for the third phase of the city’s 96-inch storm sewer replacement project.
“As part of that grant application, they are just looking to make sure that it doesn’t conflict with anything else in the jurisdictional area,” said Travis Dillman, city engineer.
The letter that will be sent to Mayor Dwaine Heinrich says the county commission has found that the storm sewer replacement project in the city “would not conflict with any county comprehensive development plan for the area.”
The winter so far in North Dakota has been
colder and drier than normal
, according to Daryl Ritchison, director of the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network and state climatologist.
“Very little snow across the state,” he said. “Well below average with no snow or little snow in some areas.”
The average maximum snow depth in December in Jamestown is 9 inches for the past 24 years, according to the National Weather Service report on statistics from the North Dakota State Hospital. This includes the winter of 2019-20 when the snow depth reached 30 inches in December and stayed at 32 inches for January and February.
The maximum snow depth in December 2023 was 3 inches, according to measurements taken at the State Hospital. Although the snow depth average was 1.3 inches that month, the Jamestown area was hammered with an ice storm in late December that caused millions in damage to power poles and power lines in the area.
This past December, the heating plant at the State Hospital reported a maximum snow depth of 2 inches.