City Hears Ordinance Change, Approves Public Improvement Agreements
The Pierre City Commission took care of several housekeeping items at their May 28 meeting.
ORDINANCE CHANGE
The commission heard the first reading of an ordinance update to assign numbers to the Business Improvement District ordinance that was approved late last year.
“The content of the ordinance was all approved in November,” said Lacey Walz, City Finance Director. “But we discovered it hadn’t been assigned a number or a place in our ordinance book.”
Walz explained the number provides organizational structure and makes finding and retrieving the ordinance easier in the future.
The change will be back in front of the commission next week for a second hearing and further consideration.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENTS
At this week’s meeting, the City Commission also approved three Public Improvement Agreements for three major housing developments underway in Pierre.
The Chapelle development at the site of old city hall, the Stencil Group apartment development in northeast Pierre, and the PEDCO single-family home development along Sully Ave. all received grant dollars from the State of South Dakota.
Each of those grants requires a public improvement agreement stating, upon completion of the project, the city will own the infrastructure developed to serve those projects and the infrastructure will be developed according to existing city ordinance.