No. 07SV036 - Best Subdivision

A request by Fisk Land Surveying & Consulting for Best Buy Stores to consider an application for a Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install sidewalk on both sides of shared access and utility easements, to waive the requirement to install street light conduit, water,a nd sewer in shared access easements and to reduce the easement widths to 48 feet and 50 feet as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code on Lots 1 and 2 of Best Subdivision, located in the NW1/4 NE1/4 of Section 25, T2N, R7E, BHM, Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota, legally described as Lot 8R of Block 3, located in the NW1/4 NE1/4, Section 25, T2N, R7E, BHM, Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota, more generally described as being located at 2320 North Haines Avenue.


PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
Planning Commission recommended that the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to reduce the east-west easement width to 48 feet be approved;

That the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install sidewalk on both sides of the east-west shared access and utility as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code be approved with the following stipulation:

1.

A sidewalk shall be provided on one side of the street;

That the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install street light conduit, water, and sewer in the north-south shared access and utility easement and to reduce the easement width to 50 feet as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code be approved;

That the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install sidewalk on both sides of the north-south shared access and utility as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code be approved with the following stipulation:

1.

A sidewalk shall be provided on one side of the street; and,

That the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install street light conduit, water, and sewer in the east-west shared access and utility easement as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code be denied.


VOTE: (8 to 0 with Brewer, Brown, Collins, Derby, Etter, Landguth, LeMay and Scull voting yes and none voting no)