Opinion ID: 2196601
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Approval of Shooting Range.

Text: Iowa Code section 657.9 (1991) provides: Before a person improves property to establish, use, and maintain a shooting range by the erection of buildings, breastworks, ramparts, or other works or before a person substantially changes the existing use of a shooting range, the person shall obtain approval of the county zoning commission or the city zoning commission, whichever is appropriate. We do not think this statute is implicated here. Although placement of a shooting range on the property was discussed at the public hearings, the petition for rezoning did not include a request for approval of a shooting range. Similarly, the minutes of the Commission do not reveal that the Association ever requested approval of a shooting range or that the Commission voted on that issue. Moreover, the rezoning ordinance adopted by the Board did not mention a shooting range. These facts show that approval of a shooting range was not sought nor was such approval given. Thus, section 657.9 has no bearing on the rezoning ordinance passed by the Board. Consequently, the Commission's failure to comply with section 657.9 does not invalidate the Board's rezoning ordinance.