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The Spearfish Planning Commission held a regular meeting on February 3, 2026, at 4:00 PM in City Hall and via Zoom. The meeting covered two action items (a conditional use permit for a manufactured home park and a development review district plan), discussions on a TIF application and development regulation analysis, and administrative matters. The meeting adjourned at 5:46 PM.
Can anyone hear them? No, I can't. I can't either. I sent them a message. Probably because I was muted. Can you all hear us now? Yeah, there we go. Okay. Sorry about that. Um, perhaps I'll just give a quick summary of where we're at so far. We just started on item number one. Um, so far we've done the call to order, roll call was taken, um, commissioners present our Duncan, Motts, uh, Tisdale, and Wild. The minutes were approved without any corrections, as was the agenda. There was one addition to include an update from the community development director under items for discussion. Uh, and then we just started on a summary of the staff report involving the conditional use permit. Can folks online just give me a heads up that you're hearing this all okay. Thumbs up for why you're not okay. Thanks, guys. Yep. Okay. All right. So um the first item on the agenda for action is the conditional use permit. Um again, this is located uh within an area that a lot of us around here know as Chris's campground. The address is six twenty-one Christensen drive. Um, the property is currently developed with a campground. It was recently rezoned to R3. Uh, there are a number of manufactured home sites on the area already. Um, and the intent of this conditional use permit is to allow for an expansion of the existing manufactured home site. Um, that does require a conditional use permit um by the development standards of our ordinance. If approved, the conditional use permit will coalesce the existing manufactured home park and the proposed expansion of the park to the west on the remaining approximately seven acres of the property. Um that is our highest density residential zoning, uh, multifamily zoning intended for promoting and encouraging the establishment and maintenance of a suitable environment for urban residents in areas appropriate by location and character for high density and multifamily dwellings. The current manufactured home park and the non-conforming campground within the subject area do fit within this. Campgrounds are not listed as a permitted use within the current R3 zoning. And so in this case, this would be considered non-conforming. Again, that was previously brought in through a planned unit development or PUD, which no longer exists in our zoning code. So we're kind of getting this cleaned up in requiring this CUP and bringing it all under a single CUP. The campground and the manufactured home park are connected to the city's water and sewer facilities, and those are located within the Christensen Drive right-of-way, although internally this property has private mains and service lines. I'll note that Christensen Drive is under county road jurisdiction at this time. The access to the existing and future use is achieved through Christensen Drive. There's an existing road named Triple L loop, again, a private road, and the intent is to extend that to the west and add an additional loop for the expansion of this manufactured home park. Again, there is a public hearing required by ordinance for a conditional use permit.