The Globe - Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

By ZACHARY MARANO

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HURLEY — The Iron County Comprehensive Planning/Land and Zoning Committee passed its last conditional use permit for a tourist rooming house at their meeting on Tuesday. Under the county’s new land use ordinance, property owners must now apply for a TRH administrative permit through the zoning department. The last CUP for a tourist rooming house went to a site on Lipp Lane in the town of Mercer.

When he presented the amended ordinance to the county board in May, Assistant Zoning Administrator Gerry Nasi said that this change will streamline t...