Moratorium Approved

BOONE, Iowa---The Boone County Board of Supervisors have approved and adopted a resolution putting a six-month moratorium on and land divisions or development projects in the Des Moines river corridor. The Supervisors expect an independent committee, headed by the County Zoning Commission, to complete work on necessary mapping needed to provide consistency with the use of conservation requirements for environmentally fragile land. Critics have said the last six-month moratorium lasted a year and a half.