Tag: Rezoning
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The Samco Road Fire Sale: Inside the AG Zoning Rush Along Cement Plant Road
Rapid City SD – Six items on the Rapid City Planning Commission’s July 23, 2026, consent calendar ask the city to reclassify a combined stretch of commercial, industrial, and residential land — most of it clustered along Cement Plant Road, Krebs Drive, and the Commerce Road corridor — down to General Agricultural District. On paper,…
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The Elephant in the Cement Truck – GCC Dacotah and Rapid City’s Zoning Dance
The 25-Year Blind Spot: How a 563-Acre Mining Operation Escaped Rapid City’s Oversight How Rapid City Homeowners Unwittingly Subsidized a Global Cement Giant for 25 Years Rapid City Proactively Moves to Define It’s Cement Plant Future
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The 25-Year Blind Spot: How a 563-Acre Mining Operation -GCC Dacotah- Escaped Rapid City’s Oversight
At 7:10 on Thursday morning, most Rapid City residents were still asleep. The ones who showed up to the Planning Commission meeting came because the ground beneath their neighborhood had been shaking before dawn. What they learned—and what the city itself had only recently discovered—was that a foreign-owned cement company had been extracting minerals from…