No. 11SV003 - Five Star Subdivision

A request by FMG Engineering for Rubloff Rapid City, LLC to consider an application for a Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install curb, gutter, sidewalk, street light conduit, water and sewer along the access easement and to reduce the width of the access easement from 59 feet to a varying width of 40 feet to 26 feet and to waive the requirement to install water and sewer along Interstate 90 as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code for proposed Lot A of Lot 1R and Lot B of Lot 1R of Five Star Subdivision, legally described as Lot 1R of Five Star Subdivision located in NW1/4 of Section 25, T2N, R7E, BHM, Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota, more generally described as being located west of Haines Avenue, south of Disk Drive and north of Interstate 90.


STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations be approved with the following revision:

That the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install curb, gutter, sidewalk, street light conduit, water and sewer along the access easement and to reduce the width of the access easement from 59 feet to a varying width of 40 feet to 26 feet be approved; and

That the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install water and sewer along Interstate 90 as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code be approved. with the following stipulation:

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Prior to City Council approval, the applicant shall sign a waiver of right to protest any future assessment for the improvement. 

PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
Planning Commission recommended that the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install curb, gutter, sidewalk, street light conduit, water and sewer along the access easement and to reduce the width of the access easement from 59 feet to a varying width of 40 feet to 26 feet be approved; and

That the Variance to the Subdivision Regulations to waive the requirement to install water and sewer along Interstate 90 as per Chapter 16.16 of the Rapid City Municipal Code be approved with the following stipulation:

1.

Prior to City Council approval, the applicant shall sign a waiver of right to protest any future assessment for the improvement. 

VOTE: (7 to 0 with Braun, Christianson, Kinniburgh, Marchand, Popp, Rippentrop and Wyss voting yes and none voting no)