Grain bins could go sky high

Grain bins may soon be able to be built sky-high if Whitman County commissioners approve proposed changes to a county zoning ordinance.

The county planning commission last month approved revisions to the laws governing building in the county’s ag zone that would remove a statutory 50-foot height restriction on grain bins.

Current law prevents the construction of non-residential buildings more than 50 feet tall in the ag zone.

Planner Alan Thomson said many bins currently stand higher than that.

“We’re not going to be tearing down any buildings over 50 feet,” Thomson vowed.

Thomson presented th...