Developers are currently considering building a 200+ acre private golf course on agricultural land in Northern Kandiyohi County. The golf course would be located on the banks of Shakopee Creek in restored prairie right across the road from Sibley State Park. Shakopee Creek is a tributary of the Chippewa River which is a tributary of the Minnesota River, one of the most polluted rivers in the country. Golf Courses are documented as high users of the pesticides and fertilizers largely impacting the Minnesota River. Millions of private and public investments and countless hours have gone into improving water quality in the Minnesota River Basin. The Tepetonka Golf Course risks reversing that progress.  

The residents of Kandiyohi County and residents of communities downstream in the Minnesota River Basin deserve to have a voice in developments that will impact their communities and local ecosystems. 

The Kandiyohi County Commission must assure a full environmental review and public decision-making process to allow local communities to have a voice.

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By signing this petition, you are asking the Kandiyohi County Commission to complete a full Environmental Assessment Worksheet for the Tepetonka Golf Course project before considering the approval of a Conditional Use Permit.  

Click here if you would like to review the entire petition asking the Kandiyohi County Commission and Minnesota Environmental Quality Board for Environmental Review.  

By completing this form, you are officially signing your name to this petition. You acknowledge by signing this petition that you are attesting that you live or own property in Minnesota and that you may be contacted to verify your signature. 

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Dear Kandiyohi County Commission,

I am submitting my signature in support of CURE’s (Clean Up the River Environment) petition for an environmental review of the Tepetonka Golf Course. I support the completion of an Environmental Assessment Worksheet before the approval of a Conditional Use Permit to identify potential environmental and community impacts of the development.

My full name and address below constitute my electronic signature, submitted to the Kandiyohi County Commission and the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) as part of the petition for environmental review. By providing my full address, including zip code, I am certifying that I support the petition of CURE, for an environmental review of the proposed Tepetonka Golf Course project and that I live in or own property in Minnesota. I acknowledge that I may be contacted to verify that my electronic signature is valid and to ask my opinion on the petition process.