Planning Commission approves annexation

RITZVILLE – The City Planning Commission adopted a resolution approving annexation, land use and zoning map amendment for two lots totaling 287 acres, at their Jan. 13 meeting.

City Council accepted the proposed Grainland Acres annexation and simultaneously adopt the comprehensive plan and assume existing city indebtedness of the area to be annexed at their Dec. 15 meeting.

The lots, part of the Heinemann Short Plat #1 and #2, are located east of Highway 261, south of I-90 and Webber Road. The land is owned by Derrek and Susan Schafer, whose families are multi-generational farmers in the Ritzv...