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M E M O R A N D U M
#00UR031

To: Rapid City City Council

From: Rapid City Planning Commission

No. 00UR031 - Rapid City Greenway Tracts
A request by Scott Kenner for the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to consider an application for a Major Amendment to a Use on Review to allow water-monitoring structures in the Flood Hazard Zoning District on Tract 8, Rapid City Greenway Tracts, Section 3, T1N, R7E (also in Sections 4 and 10, T1N, R7E), BHM, Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota, more generally described as being located on Rapid Creek between Fitzgerald Stadium and Storybook Island.

PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
Planning Commission recommended that the Major Amendment to a Use on Review to allow water-monitoring structures in the Flood Hazard Zoning District be approved with the following stipulations:

Engineering Division Recommendations:

1.    That a Special Exception to the Flood Area Construction Regulations be obtained;

2.    That any changes in the final location of the structure shall be allowed subject to review and approval of the Engineering Division;

Urban Planning Division Recommendations:

3.     This Use on Review shall automatically expire if the use is not undertaken and completed within two years of the date of approval by the City Council, or if the use as approved has ceased for a period of two years.

Vote: (7 to 0)