July 2015

Billion takes another shot at the street vacation

l3wis July 13, 2015 4Comments

Usually when a zoning issue like this is defeated (Item #20), it takes a couple of months before they come back with an alternative plan. I’m not sure if I am missing something here, but it doesn’t seem like there is much of an alternative plan, I guess we will have to wait to hear the new testimony tomorrow night at the council meeting. The council will be setting a date of hearing for August 11.

Powder House Part II

I am also hearing there will be quite a bit of testimony for rescinding the Powder House road name change. I know the armies on both sides of the issue are lining up the troops, remember, NO REPETITIVE testimony, or the mayor will lecture us about how we are supposed to address OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS in OUR PUBLIC BUILDING on OUR OWN TIME. He seems to have trouble with that 1^st Amendment thingy.

Public Services meeting could be informative . . .

I guess the presentation of the proposed 85^th street interstate interchange will have a host of presenters, including private developers/landowners, county officials, state officials and city officials from Tea & Harrisburg. I suppose a few stragglers from the mayor’s office will chime in also.

Sioux Falls City Council meeting tidbits (7/14/2015)

l3wis July 12, 2015 7Comments

Once again, this weeks city council meeting is full of surprises;

Item #1, approval of contracts; ‘Cold weather gear’ I guess the city has to buy it’s employees coats and gloves.

Item #7, Doesn’t look like they are really fixing the city’s ticket fee structure, just letting the facilities decide for all other events;

Fees for all other admissions shall be established by the facility operator after consultation with the city finance director. The fee shall not exceed $3.00.

Item#14 & #16, approving more diagonal parking Downtown, will the spots be metered (especially between 6th and 5th on Phillips?

Item #17, Hiring a Construction manager at Risk for a ‘proposed’ administration building. While the council has already been briefed on this, they haven’t even presented a solid plan yet and they are already considering hiring a construction manager. How did that work out for the Events Center?

Item#21, The Big one of the night, a reconsideration of renaming Powder House Road to Veterans Parkway;

RECONSIDERATION (FROM THE JULY 7, 2015, CITY COUNCIL MEETING):  2nd Reading: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SIOUX FALLS, SD, AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF SAID CITY BY CHANGING A STREET NAME.

This is interesting, we now find out that not many Vets and Veteran groups were NOT involved with this decision, so now they may rescind it. I think Russell Avenue Veterans Parkway would be more appropriate.