 A special group called the Crow Wing County Development Review Team is receiving high praise for their efforts in making it easier for landowners to navigate their public hearing process through the pre-review land use applications. Our Logan Gay has more. To ease confusion for landowners, the Crow Wing County Development Review Team decided to take a hands-on approach. One of the things that we realized was that when landowners had to come to a public hearing to get a permit, a variance, or a condition use permit, a lot of landowners didn't understand the process and so they would come into these meetings unprepared. The Development Review Team was created in 2009 and it creates a level of understanding between the lawmakers and the landowners. It invites the landowner in to learn more in depth about our land use ordinance from different areas of local government. We work with the state. We work with other townships to come together to form this team. So far it has seen great success. We got 100 percent of the people saying that they were really satisfied with the process and that's been consistent since we've done in 2009. We've just overwhelmingly had customers say this is a really thoughtful, helpful process. Land services will continue to use the survey to make any kind of future adjustments. We like to get input from customers say hey could you improve this or could you change that and in fact we have made changes in it based on that customer feedback and we'll continue to do so. DRT meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month in Brainerd, Logan Gay, Lakeland News. DRT applications can be found online or inside the land services building. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.