Flood plain map leaves resident high and dry

By RICHARD JENKINS

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HURLEY — While they may have been sympathetic to his plight, there was little the members of the Iron County Comprehensive Planning/Land and Zoning Committee could do Monday for Jim Youngs other than agree to fund a study to determine whether a permit could be issued allowing Youngs to build a house on his property in Kimball, Wis.

The issue preventing Youngs from constructing a house on the property he purchased from the county in 2012 is it falls in a flood plain on county maps, even though the elevation of the property makes it unlikely it woul...