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ORDINANCE NO. 11-95
AN ORDINANCE REVISING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE CITY OF
BROOKINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF BROOKINGS,
SOUTH DAKOTA AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT:
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Section 1. That the Future Land Use and Major Street Plan, dated Apri14, 1995, is hereby
adopted.
Section 2. That the Objectives and Policy Guidelines, dated April 4, 1995, and pertaining to the
Comprehensive Plan for the City of Brookings are hereby adopted.
Section 3. The Future Land Use and Major Street Plan, together with the Objectives and Policy
Guidelines, dated Apri14, 1995, sha11 constitute a portion of the"Comprehensive Plan". A copy
of the Comprehensive Plan is on file in the office of the City Engineer.
FIRST READING: April 11, 1995
SECOND READING: April 25, 1995
PUBLISHED: May 1, 1995
CITY OF BROOKINGS
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Date Approved: April 4, 1995
Brookings City and County Planning Commissions
Objecctives and Policy Guidelines
OBJECTIVES AND POLICY GUIDELINES
Brookings City and County Planning Commissions
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City Limits and Joint Jurisdictional Areas
The objectives of the Brookings City and County Planning Commissions as
listed below are intended by these Commissions to result in the type of future living
and working conditions desired by the majority of the citizens in Brookings City and
the immediate surrounding area.
1. To provide for the orderly arrangement of the parts of the City and Joint
Jurisdictional Area enabling each part (residential, recreational, commercial and
industrial) to perform its function economically and with minimum conflict to the
other parts.
2. To provide an efficient, safe and economical system of transportation within the
City and the surrounding area.
3. To promote the economic growth and social development of the City and the
Joint Jurisdictional Area as a partner in cooperation with the private sector and
South Dakota State University.
4. To provide ample opportunities for public participation at all stages of the
planning and implementation process, including public hearings, rezoning
notices and public awareness campaigns.
5. To retain flexibility within the planning and zoning process so as to readily cope
with changing social and economic conditions.
6. To review and update the Objectives and Policy Cuidelines every five (5) years.
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POLICY GUIDELINES
The following Policy Guidelines are intended to reflect the methods for
attaining the preceding objectives. These Objectives and Policy Guidelines,
together with the current Zoning Map, Major Street Plan and the adopted Future
Land Use Map, form the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Brookings and the
contiguous Joint Jurisdictional Area.
CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT POLICY GUIDELINES
The Brookings central business district serves as the focal point of the
commerce and communications for a wide region. The CBD will continue to play a
vital role in the social and economic life of the community. To a great extent, the
image and viability of Brookings as an area trade center will depend upon the heafth
of the CBD. Through adherence to the policies listed below, the City can help to
ensure the future vitality of the downtown area.
1. Encourage a strong supportive retail sector which will complement downtown
uses.
2. Maintain CBD boundaries in order to prevent encroachment of downtown uses
into adjacent neighborhoods and to more fully utilize the existing CBD area.
3. Facilitate traffic circulation into and out of the CBD.
4. Meet parking needs by maintaining and enhancing existing surface lots.
5. Protect significant historic and architectural assets in the CBD from destruction
and incompatible development.
6. Involve the business community in public decisions affecting the development of
the CBD.
POLICY GUIDELINES FOR ESTABLISHED AREAS (OTHER THAN CBD)
With the resurgence of housing restoration in the older neighborhoods of
Brookings and with the increased demand for affordable commercial and industrial
spaces, the older residential, commercial, and industrial areas can remain as assets
to the City if the following policies are effectively implemented.
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1. Provide and maintain parks, streets and other public facilities at a uniformly high
standard in all neighborhoods in the City.
2. Control, through strict regulations, all incompatible industrial and commercial
uses located in predominantly residential neighborhoods.
3. Provide suitable transition zones befinreen low density residential areas and more
intensive nonresidential uses.
4. Prevent commercial strip development along major thoroughfares in the City.
5. Encourage apartment, institutional, office and limited commercial uses with side
street access as alternatives to commercial strip development.
6. Allow conveniently located neighborhood commercial centers in locations that
will not create land use conflicts or traffic problems.
7. Preserve suitable low cost commercial development sites where possible.
8. Allow flexibility of land use and density in the redevelopment of blighted areas.
9. Provide safe, convenient pedestrian and bicycle access between neighborhoods
and activity centers.
10.Discourage through traffic on local streets within established neighborhoods.
11.Avoid widening and signalization of through streets where the livability and safety
of adjacent neighborhoods would be diminished by such action.
12.Maintain a grid system of major streets throughout the City to relieve central area
traffic.
13.Protect historic dwellings and other architecturally significant buildings from
incompatible development.
AREA OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES
The area of planned development consists of lands along the urban fringe
where new development will occur through the year 2040. This area is designated
on the Future Land Use Map as "Future City Limits". Development is expected to
occur in this area during the planning period, thus creating heavy demands on city
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government for new public facilities and senrices. The following are policy
guidelines through which the City and County can promote orderly and attractive
growth of the future urban area.
1. Require annexation of land contiguous to the City prior to rezoning or
development.
2. Discourage leapfrog development on land which cannot be economically
provided with public services and faalities.
3. Maintain an adequate supply of development land within the urban service area
at all times.
4. Preclude development of land which is environmentally unsuitable for
construction.
5. Require that new development be compatible with existing adjacent
development.
6. Require that neighborhood and convenience commercial uses be clustered at
accessible locations.
7. Provide for suffiaent multi-family housing around commercial and industrial
areas.
8. Allow fle�bility in density and land use when subject to detailed project review by
the City. (Planned Development District)
9. Secure suitable park and school sites within designated growth areas.
10.Integrate park and open space areas into residential neighborhoods wherever
feasible.
11.Provide direct pedestrian and bicycle access from residential neighborhoods to
schools, commercial centers and recreation areas.
12.Separate vehicular traffic from pedestrian and bicycle traffic wherever possible.
13.Design residential street layouts to minimize both overall street lengths and the
quantity of site grading required.
14.Provide convenient access to housing areas with a minimum of traffic hazards.
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15.Discourage heavy through traffic on minor residential streets.
16.Avoid driveway entrances on arterial streets and wherever possible, on collector
streets.
17.Require continuity of collector streets between adjacent subdivisions.
18.Secure suificient rights-of-way to accommodate the City's major arterial street
system.
19.Employ an area-wide approach in planning utility and drainage systems.
20.Utilize and preserve natural drainage systems to the greatest extent possible.
21.Minimize soil erosion and downstream sedimentation through appropriate
design.
22.Allow high density housing only in close proximity to arterial streets, major activity
centers, and South Dakota State University.
RURAL AREA POLICY CUIDELINES (JOINT JURISDICTIONAL AREA OUT-SIDE OF
"FUTURE CITY LIMITS" ON MAP)
The Joint Jurisdictional Area outside of the "Area of Planned Development"
surrounding Brookings contains vast areas of agricuttural land on which urban
development will not be desirable during the planning period. Both city residents
and the farming community have a fundamental interest in preventing scattered and
haphazard developrnent pattems in this area. Rural area developnnent policies
which should be jointly pursued by the City of Brookings and Brookings County are
listed below.
1. Preserve for agricultural production those prime agricuftural lands beyond the
area of planned urban development.
2. Maintain an evenly distributed, rural density population compatible with the
agricultural orientation of the area.
3. Limit subdivision of land for housing developments in the rural area to small scale
projects which do not conflict with agricuttural operations.
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4. Limit commeraal and industrial development in the rural area to those uses
which are directly supportive of agricultural operations.
5. Prevent construction on sites which are environmentally unsuited for buildings or
septic systems.
6. Protect stream corridors, the aquifer and other signficant natural areas from
incompatible development.
7. Limit the number of driveway entrances on highways and other major roads.
8. Preserve adequate rights-of-way for future arterial traffic routes.
9. Provide public services and facilities at a level sufficient to meet the needs of a
low density agricuttural population only.
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