No. 04SV080 - Trailwood Village

A request by Sperlich Consulting Inc. for Gordon Howie to consider an application for a Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install curb, gutter, sidewalk, street light conduit and additional pavement and to waive the requirement to provide a ten foot wide planting screen easement as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code on a portion of Tract T of Trailwood Village, located in the SE1/4 of the SE1/4, Section 10, T1N, R8E, BHM, Pennington County, South Dakota, more fully described as follows: Commencing at the southeasterly corner of Lot 3 of Block 22, Trailwood Village, Thence, S00º03’09”W, a distance of 346.91 feet to the northeasterly corner of the boundary, and the Point of Beginning; Thence, first course: S00º05’47”W, a distance of 317.18 feet, to the southeasterly corner of said boundary; Thence, second course: S89º49’52”W, a distance of 227.28 feet, to the southwesterly corner of said boundary; Thence, third course: N00º04’24”W, a distance of 199.81 feet, to the northerly corner of said boundary; Thence, fourth course: N65º25’59”W, a distance of 24.18 feet, to the northwesterly corner of said boundary; Thence, fifth course: N00º04’24”E, a distance of 35.04 feet, to the northerly corner of said boundary; Thence, sixth course: S89º55’36E, a distance of 40.00 feet, to the northeasterly corner of said boundary; Thence, seventh course: N00º04’24”E, a distance of 73.27 feet, to the northerly corner of said boundary; Thence, eighth course: S89º55’36”E, a distance of 209.43 feet, to the northeasterly corner of said boundary, and the Point of Beginning, said parcel contains 1.460 acres more or less, more generally described as being located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Long View Road and Reservoir Road.


Staff recommends that the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations be continued to the February 21, 2005 City Council meeting as the stipulations of approval have not been met.

PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
Planning Commission recommended that the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to provide a ten foot wide planting screen easement be denied and that the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install curb, gutter, sidewalk, street light conduit and additional pavement as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code be approved with the following stipulation:

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Prior to submittal of a Final Plat application, the applicant shall sign a waiver of right to protest any future assessments for the installation of curb, gutter, sidewalk, street light conduit and additional pavement along Reservoir Road and Long View Road.

VOTE: (6 to 0 with Brown, Fast Wolf, Hadcock, LeMay, Prairie Chicken and Schmidt all voting yes and none voting no)