Planning & Zoning
Office Responsibilities: The Planning and Zoning Department administers and enforces the Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Ordinance, and Floodplain Ordinance for Plymouth County.
- Issue building permits and zoning permits.
- Perform zoning inspections by enforcing zoning ordinance.
- Handle requests for rezoning, variance, conditional use permits.
- Planning and Zoning Commission, Board of Adjustment and Board of Supervisors are decision makers for aforementioned requests.
- Handle all major and minor subdivision requests.
- Handle requests for home industry or home occupations.

Plymouth County Zoning
Plymouth County Courthouse Annex
215 4th Ave SE
Le Mars, IA 51031
Telephone: 712-546-7516
Fax: 712-546-8797
E-mail: zoning@plymouthcountyiowa.govcreate new email
Alan Lucken, Zoning Administrator
Hours:
Every Wednesday
8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Helpful Forms & Links
- opens in a new windowBuilding Permitopens PDF file
- opens in a new windowZoning Ordinanceopens PDF file
- opens in a new windowZoning Subdivision Ordinanceopens PDF file
- opens in a new windowZoning Fee Scheduleopens PDF file
- opens in a new windowComprehensive Planopens PDF file
Planning and Zoning Commission
Shirley McNaughton LeMars
Randy Kroksh Akron
Greg Schroeder LeMars
Lowell Vos Kingsley
Gregg Roepke Kingsley
Peg Becker Hinton
Bill Koopman Le Mars
John Ahlers LeMars
Elizabeth (Betty) Gorczynski LeMars
Board of Adjustment
Dan Albert LeMars
Shirley Benson Remsen
James Dennison Akron
Nancy Anderson Merrill
Don Mathews Sioux City