Today in History revisits an article that discusses a proposal to restrict development in Grand Forks City’s “fringe area” to homes on five-acre lots to protect farmland from subdivision development. City engineer Frank Orthmeyer advocates for even stricter measures, wanting no building except for farm buildings. However, the county planning and zoning commission gave preliminary… Continue reading Today in History: March 25, 1977 – Farmland zoning around Grand Forks – Obituary