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The Spearfish Planning Commission met in regular session at 4:00 p.m. on September 1, 2026, in City Hall Council Chambers and via Zoom. Commissioners present: Davison, Duncan, Bordewyk, Wilde, Moths, and Tysdal; Byrum was absent. Staff present: Community Development Director Peter Wysocki, Assistant Planning Director Jaymia Ecker, and Planning Technician Vasiliki Pistoftzian. The Commission approved an amended agenda and the prior meeting minutes, received two informational presentations, and adjourned at 4:57 p.m.
You can move over. I think I will just call the meeting to order. May we have roll call, please. Wild. Davison here. Duncan. Here. Are there any changes to the agenda? Yes. Um, the applicant um for items fractional business F one has withdrawn their application. So the amendment would be to remove F one from the agenda. No other amendments. With the omission of F one. I guess I would ask if there's any other additional context to that of why those were wrong. Oh, same sign. Any changes, corrections, deletions. Same sign. Now is our time for public comment, and uh public comments are welcome at this time. However, no action will be taken. Is anyone in the audience wishes to stand and make a statement? Please state your name and your address. See no one. We'll move on to uh items for action. Wrong? That's G. H. Well, it's okay. Peter Waisaki, community development director. Uh we reported to you that the staff attended or will would be attending the 2026 Questern Planner Conference, uh, which we did last week. We've also informed you that we will we were uh doing a presentation on um spearfish becoming a trail town. And some of you, if not most of you, kind of expressed an interest that you would like to hear uh kind of a uh abridged version of the presentation we gave during the conference by uh we uh it means uh Jamia, Emily Brown of the Spearfish Trail Coalition, and myself. So this is gonna be an abbreviated version of that. What was about a one-hour um session uh during the conference. We're gonna condense this to just a few minutes. Uh, but I think uh hopefully you'll find it uh somewhat informative. And uh certainly I think our presentation went pretty well during the conference. A little bit about Western Planner first. Uh so Western Planner is an association um of planning professionals, if you will, that covers about 15 states or so in the West, sort of starts at the western borders of uh the Midwest. So it includes the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, uh, some other states. Uh it is uh unaffiliated with the American Planning Association. So this is separate from the uh the national APA, which also uh APA also provides the the certification or administers the certification program for AICP. Uh so Western Planner is different. Um they've been around for a number of years, but it they primarily focused on on cities in the West, particularly more in uh rural character. Um this year's conference was actually uh in Sioux Sioux Falls. So we went there uh last year, or excuse me, last week. So with that, um I'll just be uh really brief um with my few comments and I'll turn it over to Jamia.