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The Spearfish City Council held a study session on May 13, 2026, at 4:15 PM in the Council Chambers to review the draft agenda for the May 18 regular meeting, receive public comment, and hold departmental discussions. The meeting adjourned at 5:20 PM.
This meeting is being recorded. Good afternoon, everyone. Uh welcome to tonight's study session. Thank you for being here on time. I'll go ahead and uh open the meeting officially, and then we have an agenda before us tonight. I don't have any changes to it. Is there a motion to approve the existing agenda? Second. Motion and a second, all in favor. I oppose. Oh okay. Sorry, sorry for that. Uh motion curious. Thank you all. Uh we have um next Monday night, uh, we the fifteenth we'll have our second uh city council meeting. Michelle's gonna pull up the agenda for Monday night and we'll go through it and get questions from the audience if there's anything as we move along. I didn't need process here, so I just I should have had it loaded already, and I apologize for that. There we go. So um the agenda for Monday night will start off on the consent agenda at minutes uh new volunteer for the rec center. Uh ratification of a development agreement for top shelf. Uh the treasure's report for the um April thirtieth, twenty twenty-six, that should be sorry, not twenty twenty-five. I'll make that correction. And then uh dedication of public infrastructure. Then under items for visitors, we'll have uh Arbor Day proclamation. So we'll be reading that. And then I'll turn it over to Jamia for the community development items. Thank you, Michelle. Um so the first one I'll cover here, and I'll just focus on a couple of the high level um pieces as this is a uh development that we've seen a number of times recently through both the DRD application and the recent TIFF application. So we're talking about Elkorn Ridge and uh the build out of what's left of that property there, which is just about twenty-eight acres. Um they've gone through all their zoning uh approvals. And so this agreement really just establishes the responsibility of the developer as it relates to construction and maintenance of public improvements. In this case, that includes utilities, roads, stormwater infrastructure, there's the park plan that goes through the development, which will be owned and maintained by the developer, and then a recreation path connection. That is where I want to spend a little bit of time. The rec path will ultimately extend through the subject property. With the planned extension adjacent to Colorado Boulevard, which will get us all the way out to this development. What we would like to request of the council is to upsize that path from what has been negotiated to be eight feet with the developer, which is already larger than what would otherwise be required if it were just a sidewalk through the development. The minimum standard is five feet. So they're willing to go to eight. And what we would recommend is that the city share in the cost to upsize that to 10 feet so that it matches the segment, which will come underneath the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Highway 85, and then eventually connect even further north to Elkhorn Ridge on the north side of the interstate. Jamea, would that be consistent? What is the width of our bike paths through? Is that 10 feet?